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E-book One Thing Follows Another
Growing up, my sister and I listened to the soundtrack of the musical Pip-pin (1972) so frequently, with such verve, that a permanent skip formed in the middle of “War Is a Science.” (We eventually bought a replacement record.) I don’t recall her ever expressing interest in any other musical, but she LOVEDPippin. She was a particular fan of Ben Vereen, who received a Tony Award for Best Actor for the role of Leading Player. One year she insisted we attend the annual Independence Day festival in downtown St. Louis just to see him onstage. To her chagrin, he performed only the ap-proximately minute-and-a-half-long instrumental interlude from “Glory.” Since the 1960s, Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer have been rebelling against the drama of modern dance, epitomized by the work of figures like Martha Graham. Both artists rejected traditional narratives while incorpo-rating everyday or task-based movements and game-based structures; fur-ther, Forti in particular eschewed the technically virtuosic choreography of figures such as Merce Cunningham. SIMONE FORTI: “I remember watching my teachers, and feeling that I couldn’t even perceive what they were doing, let alone do it. A teacher would demonstrate a movement, I’d see only this flashing blur of feet, and I wouldn’t know what had happened. I just couldn’t do it” (Forti 1998, 34).
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