
Simone Forti
In her work, artist, choreographer, dancer, and writer Simone Forti channels the subversive elemental forces of freedom and spontaneity. Born in Florence in 1935, she soon afterward fled with her family to the United States to escape rising anti-Semitism. Very active in the 1960s scene in New York, she evaded easy categorization as one of the pioneers of American postmodern dance.
It was in the late ’60s that Forti revived her relationship with Italy, thanks in part to the efforts of Fabio Sargentini, owner of Galleria L’Attico in Rome. In the exhibition “Distant Lands,” various expressive