Minotaur

Raffaella Cortese is proud to present a new double show featuring London-based filmmaker Daria Martin (b. 1973, San Francisco) and American performer and choreographer Anna Halprin (b.1920).

The exhibition titled Minotaur is the first in a series of upcoming shows in which two artists choose one another and discuss key aspects of their individual research. For this season we invited artists from different generations who are intimately connected by a teacher-student relationship. Daria Martin has asked Anna Halprin to collaborate on her 9 minute, 16mm film Minotaur as she considers Halprin an inspirational reference point in postmodern dance. Halprin is a seminal figure in 20th century choreography, whose career spans more than seven decades. Often credited with having invented postmodern dance, in the 1960’s she taught Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, Simone Forti, Robert Morris and others who later went on to form the Judson Church Group in New York. In the later half of her career, she became a leading figure in the field of dance as a healing art.