Ally

The Fabric Workshop and Museum

Janine Antoni, Anna Halprin, Stephen Petronio, Rope Dance, 2015. Photo by Hugo Glendinning. Courtesy of the artists and The Fabric Workshop and Museum. — Janine Antoni, Anna Halprin, Stephen Petronio, *Rope Dance*, 2015. Photo by Hugo Glendinning. Courtesy of the artists and The Fabric Workshop and Museum.

Stephen Petronio rendition of The Courtesan and the Crone by Anna Halprin, 2016. Exhibition detail from Ally, produced in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum. Photographed by Carlos Avendaño. Courtesy of the artists and The Fabric Workshop and Museum. — Stephen Petronio rendition of *The Courtesan and the Crone* by Anna Halprin, 2016. Exhibition detail from *Ally*, produced in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum. Photographed by Carlos Avendaño. Courtesy of the artists and The Fabric Workshop and Museum.

Recipient

Grant Year 2014

Grant Amount $300,000

Status Completed

Updated May 30, 2023

MacArthur Fellow Janine Antoni is known for blurring distinctions between performance art and sculpture through a primary subject: her body. Ally is a performance-as-exhibition, conceived by Antoni in collaboration with pioneering choreographer Anna Halprin and contemporary dance artist Stephen Petronio. Rather than a traditional retrospective that attempts to capture the past, Ally uses the past to move forward. Antoni, Halprin, and Petronio collaborated over a two-year residency at The Fabric Workshop and Museum, to look back at their established philosophies, past works, and the important contributions each collaborator has made to his or her respective fields. The project combined installed environments, sculptures, and repeated movement performances by Antoni and Petronio on four floors of the Fabric Workshop and Museum.

*Additional unrestricted funds are added to each grant for general operating support.*

Primary EventsEvents & Exhibitions

Ally

Apr 21–Jul 31, 2016
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, 1214 Arch Street, Philadelphia

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uestions of ractice

Anna Halprin teaching Planetary Dance to Tamalpa Institute students, May 2015. Photo © Sue Heinemann.

Interview

God Must be a Dancer

Interview

Questions of Practice: Choreographer Stephen Petronio and Artist Janine Antoni on Performance in a Museum Setting

Interview

Questions of Practice: Choreographer Stephen Petronio on Performance and Ephemerality

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The Fabric Workshop and Museum

The Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) is an internationally recognized art museum with an active studio and artist-in-residence program. Research, construction, and fabrication occur on site in studios that are open to the public. Founded in 1977, FWM initially invited visual artists to Philadelphia to experiment with fabric in its workshops, and it later expanded tools to accommodate a wide range of innovative materials and media. Resident artists over the years have included Laurie Anderson, Mark Bradford, Louise Bourgeois, Glenn Ligon, Ed Ruscha, Yinka Shonibare, Sarah Sze, and dozens of others.

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