Abstract:
It is by now wpm at Palazzo di Sette in the Italian town of Orvieto, where Simone Forti is about to perform a solo improvisation. We expected her to perform closer to Spm, but the media conference in which she was guest of honor went overtime, as did the performances previous to hers. Time has gotten later and later. Simone is unfazed and relaxed, waits for the stage to clear, and then enters, without ceremony. Making a bird sound, a sound kind of like "fuuuuccck", she begins a performance monologue that seamlessly brings together stories of the pigeons living around the city and Simone's feelings about reading the political news in the day's paper. The movement leads her into new shapes of thought, new tangents of language. ....