The Fortis eventually settled in Los Angeles, where Forti attended public schools Gardner Street Elementary School, John Burroughs Middle School and Fairfax Senior High School. When Milka recovered, the family sailed to the United States in early 1939. The family crossed the northern border into Switzerland, then spent six months in Bern while Milka was ill. In the winter of 1938, the Forti family, including Forti's older sister Anna, left Italy to escape antisemitic persecution. Biography Early life įorti was born in Florence, Italy to Jewish parents Milka Forti (née Greunstein) and Mario Forti. in Los Angeles, CA, and has works in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Generali Foundation in Vienna, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. She is currently represented by The Box L.A. Forti's published books include Handbook in Motion (1974, The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design), Angel (1978, self-published), and Oh Tongue (2003, Beyond Baroque Foundation, ed. Forti first apprenticed with Anna Halprin in the 1950s and has since worked alongside artists and composers Nam June Paik, Steve Paxton, La Monte Young, Trisha Brown, Charlemagne Palestine, Peter Van Riper, Dan Graham, Yoshi Wada, Robert Morris and others. Her innovations in Postmodern dance, including her seminal 1961 body of work, Dance Constructions, along with her contribution to the early Fluxus movement, have influenced many notable dancers and artists. Since the 1950s, Forti has exhibited, performed, and taught workshops all over the world. Simone Forti (born March 25, 1935), is an American Postmodern artist, dancer, choreographer, and writer.
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