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Ally: Paper Dance

June 3, 2016 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Ally: Janine Antoni, Anna Halprin, and Stephen Petronio Navigate Gap between Art and Dance in Major Exhibition at The Fabric Workshop and Museum

April 21, 2016–July 31, 2016

Collaborative works will occupy four floors of the Museum, combining installed environments, sculptures and repeated movement performances.

Philadelphia, PA – On Thursday, April 21, 2016, The Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) premieres Ally, an exhibition of art and dance conceived and performed by artist Janine Antoni in collaboration with choreographer Stephen Petronio and movement artist Anna Halprin. Taking the form of performances, installation environments, videos, and sculptures, Ally will occupy four floors of the contemporary art museum in Center City Philadelphia for three months, through Sunday, July 31, 2016. A book will follow, edited by the British writer and performance scholar Adrian Heathfield and others

Paper Dance 

Once a week for 14 weeks Antoni performs Paper Dance, an improvised movement performance. Drawing on images and concerns that have long preoccupied her as an artist, Antoni uses rolls of brown paper originally employed by Halprin in her seminal work Parades and Changes (1965). These performances take place within an installed arena of many wooden packing crates containing artworks by Antoni. Each iteration calls for Antoni to begin by unpacking one of her earlier works from a crate, whether it be a sculpture made of chocolate and soap like Lick & Lather (1993) or a photographic image like Mortar and Pestle (1999). A ‘retrospective’ of Antoni’s previous works slowly emerges over the duration of the exhibition, with chosen works appearing, remaining for a week, then disappearing as they are re-packed into the installed crates. After executing this repetitive activity, Antoni enacts the improvised performance work with paper, shifting its content weekly in relation to the installation’s new assembly of her artistic history. When the performance is not taking place, a film of Halprin’s earliest version of Parades and Changes is screened amidst the crated works. The paper remnants of Antoni’s performances slowly accumulate over the course of the exhibition. (Performance, weekly, and installation, Eighth Floor.)

Photo: Hugo Glendinning.

Venue

The Fabric Workshop and Museum
1214 Arch Street
Philadelphia, NY 19107 United States
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Phone:
215.561.8888
Website:
http://www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org