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RACHEL ROSENTHAL
Rachel Rosenthal, one of America's pioneering
performance artists, has been making work for five decades. She fled
her home in Paris during World War II, eventually settling in New
York and then California where she organized her own Instant Theatre,
a precursor to Happenings. Rosenthal became a founder of Womanspace
in Los Angeles in 1973, and shortly afterwards started performing.
Among her many pieces, solo and collaborative, are: "Traps," "My Brazil,"
"KabbaLAmobile," "L.O.W. in Gaia," "Rachel's Brain," "Pangaean Dreams,"
and "Zone." Rosenthal, based in LA, has been teaching for many years
and continues her workshops at Espace DBD (Doing by Doing); she will
be at Rhinebeck's Omega Institute in the summer. Rosenthal is the
subject of the recent book, "Rachel Rosenthal," edited by Moira Roth.
In January 2001, she received the prestigious award (previous winners;
Baryshnikov, Graham, Cunningham) given by the Association of Performing
Arts Presenters. For more information on the artist, see: www.rachelrosenthal.org
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