A pioneer in the postmodern dance movement, artist, dancer, choreographer, and writer Simone Forti was the third recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award. Forti first apprenticed with Anna Halprin in the 1950s, joined dancers and artists Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Morris and others at Judson Church Dance Theater in New York in the 1960s, followed by an international career. Joined by collaborators Corey Fogel and Abigail Levin and UCI grad student Michael Thurin, she restaged one of her Dance Constructions Huddle with undergrad students, and performed News Animations Solo Number One 1974, Cloths 1967.