Joan Jonas: New York Performances | ART21 “Exclusive“

Episode #219: From her Manhattan studio, artist Joan Jonas discusses her decision to begin staging performances in the late 1960s. As a child growing up in New York, Jonas’s mother brought her to see performances such as Richard Wagner operas at The Metropolitan Opera and a George Balanchine production of “Afternoon of a Faun“ starring Tanaquil Le Clercq. Describing her experiences of seeing operas and ballets in her youth, Jonas recalls, “Things like that make a big impression on you when you’re young.“ Fo