Simone Forti and Batyah Schachter, NEWS ANIMATION at Moderna Museet, 5 September 2015

Simone Forti and Batyah Schachter, NEWS ANIMATION at Moderna Museet, 5 September 2015. Together with Israeli dancer Batyah Schachter, Simone Forti will present a new performance from her ongoing series of “News Animations” at Moderna Museet Stockholm, organized in collaboration with Index. Since the early 1980s, Forti has been performing “News Animations,” improvisations that continue her ongoing interest in political thought and the body as a medium of experience. Simone Forti is an internationally acclaimed dancer, choreographer, artist, and writer based in Los Angeles. Batyah Schachter is a dancer and choreographer, born in Israel. She graduated from the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam and collaborated since then with musicians and dancers in improvisation and created and performed solo dances in Europe and Israel. Since 1988, she is collaborating with Simone Forti.