{"title":"Making the Museum Dance: Simone Forti’s Huddle (1961) and its Acquisition by the Museum of Modern Art","authors":"M. Metcalf","doi":"10.1080/01472526.2021.2024724","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In 2015, Simone Forti’s Dance Constructions, a group of understated, equipment-based performances from 1960–1961, entered the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) as the museum’s first acquisition of historical dance works. This essay details Forti’s arrangements with MoMA for the Dance Construction Huddle, which complicated the already complicated proposition of how to collect and care for dances in a visual art institution. Examined closely, the acquisition process reveals both how the museum transformed Forti’s work and how Huddle—and dance more generally—presses back on the institution and its investments in objecthood, singular authorship, and private property.","PeriodicalId":42141,"journal":{"name":"DANCE CHRONICLE","volume":"45 1","pages":"30 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"DANCE CHRONICLE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01472526.2021.2024724","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"DANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract In 2015, Simone Forti’s Dance Constructions, a group of understated, equipment-based performances from 1960–1961, entered the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) as the museum’s first acquisition of historical dance works. This essay details Forti’s arrangements with MoMA for the Dance Construction Huddle, which complicated the already complicated proposition of how to collect and care for dances in a visual art institution. Examined closely, the acquisition process reveals both how the museum transformed Forti’s work and how Huddle—and dance more generally—presses back on the institution and its investments in objecthood, singular authorship, and private property.
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For dance scholars, professors, practitioners, and aficionados, Dance Chronicle is indispensable for keeping up with the rapidly changing field of dance studies. Dance Chronicle publishes research on a wide variety of Western and non-Western forms, including classical, avant-garde, and popular genres, often in connection with the related arts: music, literature, visual arts, theatre, and film. Our purview encompasses research rooted in humanities-based paradigms: historical, theoretical, aesthetic, ethnographic, and multi-modal inquiries into dance as art and/or cultural practice. Offering the best from both established and emerging dance scholars, Dance Chronicle is an ideal resource for those who love dance, past and present. Recently, Dance Chronicle has featured special issues on visual arts and dance, literature and dance, music and dance, dance criticism, preserving dance as a living legacy, dancing identity in diaspora, choreographers at the cutting edge, Martha Graham, women choreographers in ballet, and ballet in a global world.