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The experimental poet Jackson Mac Low originally published the above poem Asymmetry 222 in 1980, building on a continuous writing practice begun in 1960 of generating poetry from words, punctuation, typography, and spacing of words on the page that have been determined by certain kinds of chance operations, often using text taken from his current reading as source material. Based on this poem fragment, Simone Forti created a dance work, which she performed in a duet with fellow dance innovator Steve Paxton in 1982. It was staged at a celebration for Jackson Mac Low’s sixtieth birthday, held in New York’s Washington Square church. Here, dancers/choreographers Phoebe Berglund and Andros Zins-Browne perform a new interpretation of these words and movements. —Sarah Cooper
