Simone Forti (b. 1935, Florence, Italy) is a dancer, choreographer, and artist whose groundbreaking work since the early 1960s has profoundly influenced the fields of postmodern dance and visual art. Emerging in New York within the experimental circles of Judson Dance Theater, Forti developed her Dance Constructions—improvisational structures using simple materials and actions to explore gravity, balance, and human interaction. Over decades, her practice has expanded to include drawings, writings, and movement studies informed by her observations of animal motion, the natural world, and the intertwining of language and physicality. Forti’s work bridges art and life, proposing movement as a way of thinking and perceiving. She continues to perform, teach, and create, integrating deep physical awareness with poetic and ecological insight. Forti’s work is held in major museum collections and has been the subject of significant solo exhibitions, including Simone Forti at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2023), Thinking with the Body: A Retrospective at the Kunsthaus Zürich (2022), and presentations at The Box, Los Angeles (2022).