Choreographer, Filmmaker Yvonne Rainer, Unknown; Yvonne Rainer, Terrain (1962–65), Judson Memorial Church, New York, April 1963 William Davis and Steve Paxton observing the performance, Photo: Al Giese; Yvonne Rainer, Diagonal (no. (2013). A selection of her poetry was published in 2011 by Paul Chan's Badlands Unlimited. 820 Greenwich Street Talking Solo (1963) The program also includes two sections from Terrain (1963)—the Judson Dance Theater’s first evening-length presentation of a single work by one choreographer—“Talking Solo” and “Diagonal,” the latter of which uses games as a guiding compositional principle. Since the beginning of her career in the early 1960s, Yvonne Rainer (American, b. By visiting our website or transacting with us, you agree to this. Her body of work has been to multiple disciplines and movements including dance, film, minimalism, conceptual art, and postmodernism. Courtesy of the Kitchen. Alvin Ailey, Chuck Davis, Eartha Kitt, Brenda Bufalino, and Yvonne Rainer all studied at the new school. Maybe that's not its primary purpose, but it certainly engendered a space for reflection and renewal. New York, NY 10014. FCA supports artists of intersecting identities including but not limited to ability, age, gender, geography, race, religion, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status. To find out more, including which third-party cookies we place and how to manage cookies, see our privacy policy. Steve Paxton and Yvonne Rainer, Word Words, 1963. Yvonne Rainer… Trio A: Retrograde, Facing, In the Midnight Hour (1969–2011) By visiting our website or transacting with us, you agree to this. Yvonne Rainer, “A Quasi-Survey of Some Minimalist Tendencies in the Quantitatively Minimal Dance Activity Midst the Plethora, or an Analysis of Trio A,” in Minimal Art, A Critical Anthology, ed. Talent also attracts good company. Steve Paxton and Yvonne Rainer. Yvonne Rainer, Unpublished notes for Trio A. Choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer trained with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham as a dancer, and was a co-founding member of the Judson Dance Theater in 1962. Mr. Our site uses technology that is not supported by your browser, so it may not work correctly. My overall M.O. We Shall Run (1963) She sought to blur the lines between performers and non-performers, and incorporated gestures and pedestrian movements, as well as classical dance steps and theatricality into her choreography. She emerged in the 1960s as a pioneer of the Judson Dance Theater movement, an avant-garde performance style that blended elements of dance and visual art, and later turned to experimental film. They have been a joy to follow. We discussed the way she resists the myths of the 1960s, and the necessary interventions to ready a nearly 50-year-old work for 2019. 4. In these years, as the art world turned toward minimalism, Rainer and her Judson Dance Theater colleagues were engaged in a parallel, and equally radical, redefinition of dance. If you would like to reproduce text from a MoMA publication, please email [email protected]. can be described as an attempt to juxtapose and interweave materials or contents that aren't usually seen together, such as an abstract dance move and simultaneously recited political screed, or a filmic image and superimposed unrelated title. Remai Modern is honoured to host internationally acclaimed avant-garde dancer, choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer’s first performances in Saskatchewan. Performa has also commissioned Yvonne Rainer & Emily Coates to reimagine a seminal work from Rainer’s oeuvre, “Parts of Some Sextets” an early work from 1965, reconstructed from notes, diagrams, and photographs now housed in the Getty Archives. Her later films included The Man Who Envied Women (1985), Privilege (1990), and MURDER and murder (1996). Lives in New York, NY, “The FCA award loosened the ever-present noose that hangs over creative people these days with the question 'How can I go on doing what I do?' We relish their gutsiness in breaking away from the status quo as much as we admire their artistic talent, intelligence, and individual accomplishments. Three Satie Spoons (1961) a performance by Yvonne Rainer at New York Live Arts, New York City, November 21–23, 2019 Peter Moore/Primary Information Yvonne Rainer (left) performing ‘Corridor Solo’ and ‘Crawling Through’ from Parts of Some Sextets at the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut, 1965 He also helped found a Seattle chapter of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) 1934) is a dancer, choreographer, writer,and filmmaker. So did James Dean, Marlon Brando, Eartha Kitt, Jane Fonda, Shirley MacLaine, James Earl Jones, and Geoffrey Holder. The performance program features eight dances by Rainer, including her earliest works, Three Satie Spoons (1961) and Three Seascapes (1962), in which she explores various relationships between movement and sound. It was also an important source for The Grand Union, an improvisational group Rainer was key to forming in the 1970s, which gathered some of the same Judson participants together again. Yvonne Rainer is a New York City–based choreographer who was a leading member of Judson Dance Theater, the 1960s avant-garde dance collective that rejected modern dance. We use our own and third-party cookies to personalize your experience and the promotions you see. The award even allowed me to take a vacation. Rainer directed several experimental films about dance and performance, including Lives of Performers (1972), Film About a Woman Who… (1974), and Kristina Taking Pictures (1976). As a choreographer, I continue to combine diverse sources of movement with specific social and political concerns conveyed through language. 5. Her dances and films have been shown worldwide at venues including Anderson Theater, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, New York Film Festival, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, and the Museum of Modern Art. I appreciate the ability of the audience to follow two or more parallel or interrupted trajectories that intersect and sometimes collide with unexpected results, or a collision of the personal and political carried to unpredictable lengths. We are dedicated to dialogue, inquiry, and equity actions with our artist community in an ongoing effort to ensure a diversity of thought and experience within our organization and in our grant-making. As current dance artist Katiti King said, “If you were an actor, she was the movement teacher to go to.” The performance program features eight dances by Rainer, including her earliest works, Three Satie Spoons (1961) and Three Seascapes (1962), in which she explores various relationships between movement and sound. The document notes that the statement was written in … Photo: Al Giese. Prior to her Merce Cunningham Award, Rainer received several National Foundation for the Arts Grants, two John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships, a MacArthur Fellowship (1990), a Wexner Prize (1995), The Rockefeller Foundation, Arts and Humanities Grant (1996), the and retrospective exhibitions at Kunsthaus Bregenz and Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2012), the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Raven Row, London (2014), and the Jeu de Paume and Ferme du Boisson in Paris (2014), and the Distinguished Artist for a Lifetime Achievement Award from the College Art Association (2014). Trio A (1966), which has undergone many incarnations, is a series of precisely constructed sequences of seemingly disconnected motions, both virtuosic and mundane, in which the performer never makes eye contact with the audience. If you would like to publish text from MoMA’s archival materials, please fill out this permission form and send to [email protected]. Chair-Pillow (1969) FCA supports and encourages artists who continually redefine experimentality and who challenge us to think deeply about the world. Since its inception in 1963, the mission of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts has been to encourage, sponsor, and promote innovative work in the arts created and presented by individuals, groups, and organizations. Three Seascapes (1962) 6 April 2013PICA Performance Space'Dance is hard to see', wrote Yvonne Rainer when making her seminal Trio A. This work involves seven performers, including Rainer, in movement configurations and readings by the performers; it was later performed at Teatro Sociale, Como; Le Louvre, Paris; and Danse Objectiv Marseilles. FCA will allocate the resources necessary to embody this goal in our programs, grant-making, board and staff recruitment, and institutional culture. Dia:Beacon 3 Beekman Street Introduced by Rainer as a carnival barker, the performance revolves around the current American socioeconomic situation, meditations on aging, and movement sequences from an early piece of choreography, At My Body’s House (1963). Blacksitioning is a reclamation ritual and a transitional rite exploring Blackness, human mortality, and our sense of belonging. Rainer first came to prominence as a leading figure in the Judson Dance Theater movement, a loose collection of dancers and artists whose performances (often held at the Judson Memorial Church in New York City) crossed fluidly between the fields of dance and visual art, creating a striking and intellectualized form of performance that denied the theatricality and emotionalism of modern dance … In 1974, Yvonne Rainer published Work 1961–73, an illustrated catalog of her performance works up to that point. My films focus on issues of race, gender, and sexual identity. Yvonne Rainer, Carriage Discreteness (performance) Yvonne Rainer guided both dancers and non-dancers through a series of generic tasks, such as walking and carrying stage props from one point to … Yvonne Rainer has created a contemporary version of her iconic 1965 work Parts of Some Sextets, a dance originally performed by 10 people and 12 mattresses, in collaboration with dancer and choreographer Emily Coates. The performance program features eight dances by Rainer, including her earliest works, Three Satie Spoons (1961) and Three Seascapes (1962), in which she explores various relationships between movement and sound. Jan 6, 2020 - Explore Dirk Rowntree's board "Yvonne Rainer" on Pinterest. This latter project included many Judson dancers and explored different aspects of the working process of dance making, learning, and rehearsing. The workshop is primarily open to Black identifying persons and allies who are interested in experimenting performance rituals while investigating the horrors of gender queerness, Blackness, white supremacy etc. FCA depends on artists to fund its programs; to date, over 1,000 artists have contributed paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, performances, and videos to help fund grant programs that directly support individual artists working in dance, music/sound, performance art/theater, poetry, and the visual arts. Diagonal (1963) Yvonne Rainer: The Concept of Dust: Continuous Project—Altered Annually at The Kitchen. She is a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine. Each of the five Please, Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done. All requests to license audio or video footage produced by MoMA should be addressed to Scala Archives at [email protected]. In 1972, Rainer transitioned to filmmaking following a fifteen-year career as a choreographer and dancer from 1960 to 1975. We are committed to ongoing evaluation of FCA’s policies and practices as we continue to strengthen the anti-racist ethos of our organization. Yvonne Rainer (b. Rainer juxtaposes Laurel and Hardy, Keynesian economics, and vaudeville. The Neuberger Museum of Art is hosting a live performance of Yvonne Rainer’s groundbreaking modern dance work, Trio A.The dance will be performed by Elliot Mercer, a dancer and Kenyon College doctoral candidate trained by Rainer-certified Trio A transmitter Patricia Catterson. at the Henry Art Gallery in 1968, bringing together artists … The influential artist, now in her 80s, continues to provoke and surprise. 7. Choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer trained with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham as a dancer, and was a co-founding member of the Judson Dance Theater in 1962. Born San Francisco, CA, 1934 Yvonne Rainer, center, on the set in December, with from left, the photographer and filmmaker David Michalek and Kat Westergaard. William Fetter (1928-2002) worked at Boeing in the 1950s and 1960s and invented early computer graphics applications. More information is also available about the film collection and the Circulating Film and Video Library. Yvonne Rainer is a dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker who has been recognized as one of the leading conceptual artists of the past fifty years. The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium. Since then, Rainer has choreographed works such as AG Indexical, with a little help from H.M. (2006), RoS Indexical (2007), a Performa07 commission, Spiraling Down (2008), Assisted Living: Good Sports 2 (2011), and Assisted Living: Do You Have Any Money? A memoir, Feelings Are Facts: a Life, was published by MIT Press in 2006. Dancer, choreographer, performer, filmmaker and writer Yvonne Rainer, who began choreographing in 1961 and made her first film in 1967, is a key figure in the story of the New York avant-garde in terms of both her writing and practice. For access to motion picture film stills please contact the Film Study Center. See more ideas about yvonne rainer, modern dance, performance art. Itami, Helen Levitt, and Yvonne Rainer for their altruistic spirit. Yvonne Rainer in performance, circa 1964 Courtesy DM Archives Reflecting on the Judson period in the September 1982 issue of Dance Magazine , she said: "It was a very intense period. Although my recent choreography cannot be said to have a unifying theme, aging is an important component, as subtext and actuality. The artist gratefully acknowledges Roselee Goldberg and Esa Nickle of Performa. Now, for Performa 19, Rainer has reconstructed Parts – in collaboration with dancer and choreographer Emily Coates – at the Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center in Brooklyn, USA. The Performance Club has published the letter of one potential performer who has written a letter to choreographer Yvonne Rainer explaining the cruel conditions they are expected to … Performance view, Judson Memorial Church, New York, January 29, 1963. ... Ms. Rainer's performance, in slow motion. Trio A with Flags (1970), Performers: Brittany Bailey, Ty Boomershine, Pat Catterson, Emily Coates, Patrick Gallagher, Patricia Hoffbauer, Iréne Hultman, Abigail Levine, Louisa Pancoast, Omagbitse Omagbemi, Emmanuèle Phuon, Damani Pompey, Suzzanne Ponomarenko, Yvonne Rainer, Heather Robles, Keith Sabado, Mary Kate Sheehan, David Thomson, Timothy Ward. Rainer exploded onto the New York performance scene in the early 1960s, a protégé of John Cage and Merce Cunningham, boldly pursuing a minimalist aesthetic, using everyday, often random movements in … She sought to blur the lines between performers and non-performers, and incorporated gestures and pedestrian movements, as well as classical dance steps and theatricality into her choreography. Many thanks.”. Sunday, May 13, 2012 1 pm and 3 pm. For licensing motion picture film footage it is advised to apply directly to the copyright holders. 1934) has challenged many of the movement conventions and narrative structures of modern dance. Motion picture film stills or motion picture footage from films in MoMA’s Film Collection cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. Performance view, “Yvonne Rainer: The Concept of Dust: Continuous Project—Altered Annually,” 2016, at the Kitchen. Ibid. With the support of her 2015 Grants to Artists award, Rainer premiered The Concept of Dust, or How do you look when there's nothing left to move at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Sanjoy Roy: Yvonne Rainer and her works are uncompromising, challenging and highly influential. In 1965 Rainer wrote her famous “No Manifesto,” a public dismissal of the qualities that exemplified then-current concert dance styles: spectacle, glamour, virtuosity. Yvonne Rainer Performance Series Saturday and Sunday, February 25 and 26, 2012 12 pm and 2 pm. Yvonne Rainer, “The Mind is a Muscle,” program accompanying the performance of The Mind is a Muscle on April 11, 14, 15, 1968 at The Anderson Theatre. After making seven experimental feature films including Lives of Performers (1972), Privilege (1990), MURDER and murder (1996), she returned to dance in 2000 with a commission from the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation for the White Oak Dance Project titled After Many a Summer Dies the Swan. Rainer also experimented with athletic and everyday movements in We Shall Run (1963), set to the Tuba mirum from Hector Berlioz’s 1837 Requiem, and Chair-Pillow (1969), which was first performed in her Continuous Project—Altered Daily (1969). June 2 to June 4, 2016 512 W 19th Street (between 10th and 11th avenues) New York, 212 255 5793. Thus, FCA remains the only institution of its kind: created and sustained by artists to benefit artists. Gregory Battcock, New York, 1968, p. 270. Work 1961-73 is an indispensable publication for anyone interested in the artist and the radical developments in dance and performance in the 1960s. 6. 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