The book is punctuated with visuals: performance photos, film stills, rehearsal notes, manuscripts, drawings, and improvisational scores. The visual organization asks its reader to engage with Halprin, Forti, and Rainer's radical bodies through images of them in motion and written representations of their work.
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
This catalog brings new insights ... Read moreinto the essential and world-changing new ideas on art making that these three women ignited and nurtured and continue to do so-all three remain active in the dance world.
Journal of Dance Education
More than an exhibition catalogue, the text, populated by images of the exhibit's artifacts, offers an absorptive record that celebrates Halprin, Forti, and Rainer's historical oeuvres. While maintaining a critical, discursive perspective, especially in the three grounding essays by the book's editors, the text additionally weaves together artist writings, critical reflection, and personal anecdotes by Forti, John Rockwell, and Morton Subotnick. These supplementary pieces invite the voices of the artist, critic, and collaborator, respectively, giving the book a diverse stylistic ethos that performatively addresses the intangible aspects of its subjects: the body, performance, and time-based materials.
The Drama Review
The book significantly revisit[s] the body of the sixties as a living and breathing resource of inspiration, complexity, and revolution.
The Woman's Art Journal
Through photos, objects and rare footage [featured in the book], the experiments on Ms. Halprin's deck are revealed to be crucial to the Judson revolution and so much that has happened since in New York postmodern dance.
New York Times
...[an] attractive, large-format volume [that] gives props to 96-year-old Anna Halprin.
The Village Voice
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