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Danseuse, chorégraphe, performer, réalisatrice et écrivaine, Yvonne Rainer (née à San Francisco en 1934, partage aujourd'hui sa vie entre la Californie et New York) est une figure centrale de l'histoire de l'avant-garde new-yorkaise. Ses performances et ses films, pour lesquels elle a reçu de nombreux prix et récompenses, ont été présentés dans le monde entier. Le travail éditorial a été réalisé, avec le concours d'Yvonne Rainer, par une équipe d'enseignants du Programme CCC Critical Curatorial Cybermedia de la Haute école d'art et de design de Genève et en collaboration avec Françoise Senger, traductrice. (quatrième de couverture)

Avant-garde --- Ecrit d'artiste --- Essais esthétiques --- Rainer, Yvonne --- vanguard --- Dance. --- Rainer, Yvonne, --- Critique et interprétation. --- Entretiens. --- Experimental films --- History and criticism.

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Yvonne Rainer's 1965 performance 'Parts of Some Sextets', for 10 people and 12 mattresses, represents a turning point in the American choreographer's oeuvre. Built on her formative years with the Judson Dance Theater, "my mattress monster," as Rainer calls it, was where she asserted her exploration of "ordinary" actions and her disregard for narrative constructions, creating an intricate choreography with a new scene every 30 seconds. More than half a century after its premiere, Rainer, in collaboration with dance artist Emily Coates, directed the 2019 revival of the piece for the Performa 19 Biennial in New York. Remembering a Dance focuses on the two distinct occurrences of this single dance. In this book, exquisitely designed by Nick Mauss, previously unpublished archival images and documents from the 1965 stagings at the Judson Memorial Church in New York and the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford resonate with contemporary responses and pose questions about the trajectories of artworks, performers and audiences.

kunst --- dans --- choreografen --- choreografie --- Rainer Yvonne --- Verenigde Staten --- twintigste eeuw --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- 792.071 --- fotografie --- dansfotografie --- Rainer, Yvonne, --- Performance-art --- Danse

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Originally published in 1974 by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Yvonne Rainer’s Work 1961-73 documents the artist’s landmark early works at the intersection of dance, performance, and art. The publication provides multifaceted insight into some of the artist’s most celebrated choreographic works, including Terrain (1962), Trio A (1966), Continuous Project-Altered Daily (1970), War (1970), Street Action (1970), and This is the story of a woman who … (1973), among many others.

Assembled ostensibly as a survey, Work 1961-73 features a multitude of documentary forms, including scripts, excerpts from the artist’s notebooks, press reviews, correspondence, photographic documentation, literary excerpts, contextualizing texts by the artist, diagrams, film stills, floor plans, scores, and more. As such, the publication resembles an artist book that generously gives the reader access to Rainer’s modes of working, as well as the social and political context around which the work was made. The publication is also a book of writing, with the artist’s frank, witty, and sometimes humorous prose intimately leading the reader through each work.

As the artist states in the book’s introduction:

I have a longstanding infatuation with language, a not-easily assailed conviction that it, above all else, offers a key to clarity. Not that it can replace experience, but rather holds a mirror to our experience, give us distance when we need it. So here I am, in a sense, trying to ‘replace’ my performances with a book, greedily pushing language to clarify what already was clear in other terms. But, alas, gone. This has seemed one good reason to compile a book ‘out of’ the remains of my performances, letting the language fall where it may. Let it be said simply “She usually makes performances and has also made a book.”

Work 1961-73 is an indispensable publication for anyone interested in the artist and the radical developments in dance and performance in the 1960s.

Yvonne Rainer (b. 1934) is a dancer, choreographer, writer,and filmmaker. She is a co-founding member of the Judson Dance Theater and worked primarily as a dancer and choreographer from the early 1960s through the early 1970s. Her choreographic work is widely recognized for blurring the lines between performers and non-performers, incorporating gestural and pedestrian movements, as well as classical dance steps and theatre. In 1972, Rainer began making films, producing seven experimental features, including Lives of Performers (1972), Privilege (1990), and MURDER and murder (1996). She returned to dance in 2000, producing new works commissioned by the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation, the Performa Biennial, and The Museum of Modern Art. She is the author of several books including Feelings Are Facts: A Life (2006), A Woman Who…: Essays, Interviews, Scripts (1999), and Poems (2012). She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, two Guggenheim Awards, The Foundation for Contemporary Art’s Merce Cunningham Award, and a USA Grant.

Rainer, Yvonne --- Art --- dance [discipline] --- choreography --- dances [performance events] --- performance artists --- dance [performing arts genre]

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Feminist films --- Experimental films --- Feminist cinema --- Feminist motion pictures --- Women's liberation films --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism. --- Rainer, Yvonne, --- Film --- Rainer, Yvonne --- United States --- United States of America --- Film directors --- Book