Huddling, Then and Now: Simone Forti and the Nonsovereign Collective

Philbrick, Ethan

doi:10.1162/dram_a_00811

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Huddling, Then and Now: Simone Forti and the Nonsovereign Collective

Ethan Philbrick

Ethan Philbrick is a performer and writer based in Brooklyn. His research interests include histories of the avantgarde; critical accounts of race, gender, and sexuality; and experimental critical writing. His book manuscript, “Group Works: Art and Politics in New York City 1960–1980,” explores the work of artists who turned to the small group as a medium for artistic and political experimentation in the 1960s and 1970s. He holds a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University and has recently premiered an evening-length choral setting of Marx and Engels’s “Manifesto for the Communist Party” at NYU Skirball. [email protected]

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Ethan Philbrick

Ethan Philbrick is a performer and writer based in Brooklyn. His research interests include histories of the avantgarde; critical accounts of race, gender, and sexuality; and experimental critical writing. His book manuscript, “Group Works: Art and Politics in New York City 1960–1980,” explores the work of artists who turned to the small group as a medium for artistic and political experimentation in the 1960s and 1970s. He holds a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University and has recently premiered an evening-length choral setting of Marx and Engels’s “Manifesto for the Communist Party” at NYU Skirball. [email protected]

Online ISSN: 1531-4715

Print ISSN: 1054-2043

2018

New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TDR/The Drama Review (2018) 62 (4 (240)): 183–196.

https://doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00811

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Between the choreographer Simone Forti’s 1960 score Huddle and the call of the 2017 Women’s March to form “huddles,” huddling emerges as both an image of politics and a rehearsal for political practices that continues to resonate today.

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2018

New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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