Yvonne Rainer

Rainer dancing Trio A (1967), 1978.
Born	November 24, 1934(1934-11-24) San Francisco, California, United States
Lives in	California and New York
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Rainer at rehearsal for Parts of Some Sextets (1965), New York, 1965. Photo: Al Giese. [1]

Yvonne Rainer (1934) is an American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker, whose work in these disciplines is regarded as challenging and experimental. Rainer currently lives and works in California and New York.

Works

Films

• Hand Movie, 1966, 5:00, b&w, silent, 8mm.
• Volleyball (Foot Film), 1967, 10:00 b&w, silent, 16mm.
• Rhode Island Red, 1968, 10:00, b&w, silent, 16mm.
• Trio Film, 1968, 13:00, b&w, silent, 16mm.
• Line, 1969, 10:00, b&w, silent, 16mm.
• Five Easy Pieces, 1969, 48 min. A compilation of five early short films made between 1966-1969. [2]
• Trio A, 1978, 10:30, b&w, silent, 16mm. [3]
• After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: Hybrid, 2002, 31:00, color, stereo. [4]
• A Woman Who...: Selected Works of Yvonne Rainer, ed. Charles Atlas, 2 DVD, 2005, 2:11:00. Contains five early films, a historically important dance and a recent work by Rainer, and a documentary portrait by Charles Atlas. [5]

Feature-length

• Lives of Performers, 1972. [6]
• Film About a Woman Who..., 1974. [7]
• Kristina Talking About Pictures, 1976. [8]
• Journeys from Berlin/1971, 1979. [9]
• The Man Who Envied Women, 1985. [10]
• Privilege, 1990. [11]
• MURDER and murder, 1996. [12]
• The Yvonne Rainer Collection, DVD, . Seven films from 1972-1996. [13]

Sound recordings

• on UbuWeb

Publications

• "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. Gregory Battcock, New York: E.P. Dutton, 1968, pp 263-273.
• "Three Distributions", Aspen 8: "The Fluxus Issue", ed. Dan Graham, New York: Aspen Communications, Fall 1970-Winter 1971.
• Work 1961-73, Halifax, Nova Scotia: The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and New York: New York University Press, 1974.
• "Screenplay for Film About A Woman Who...", October 2, Summer 1976.
• "Screenplay for Journeys from Berlin/1971", October 9, Summer 1979.
• "A Letter from Yvonne Rainer", October 10, Autumn 1979.
• The Films of Yvonne Rainer, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. Film scripts of Rainer's work and essays on them by B. Ruby Rich, Bérénice Reynaud, Mitchell Rosenbaum, and Patricia White.
• A Woman Who...: Essays, Interviews, Scripts, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (PAJ Books), 1999, x+437 pp. Review: Mills (TDR). [14]
• Feelings Are Facts: A Life, MIT Press, 2006, xvi+473 pp. Memoir.
• Poems, New York: Badlands Unlimited, 2011.
• "Judson Dance Theater: 50th Anniversary", Artforum, 10 Jul 2012.

Interviews, conversations

• Trisha Brown, Yvonne Rainer, "A Conversation about Glacial Decoy", October 10, Autumn 1979, pp 29-37.
• "Trisha Brown", BOMB 45, Fall 1993, pp 28-33.
• Interview with Yvonne Rainer, 2011, Artforum, 17 Oct 2011. Video. [15]

Film documentaries

• Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer, dir. Jack Walsh, 2015, 86 min. [16] [17]

Literature

• Liza Béar, Yvonne Rainer, Willoughby Sharp, "Yvonne Rainer", Avalanche Magazine 5, Summer 1972, pp 46-59.
• Shelley Green, Radical Juxtaposition: The Films of Yvonne Rainer, Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994, 174 pp.
• Carrie Lambert, "Moving Still: Mediating Yvonne Rainer's Trio A", October 89, MIT Press, Summer 1999, pp 87-112.
• Erin Brannigan, "Yvonne Rainer", Senses of Cinema 27, Jul 2003.
• Yvonne Rainer: Radical Juxtapositions, 1961-2002, ed. Sid Sachs, Philadelphia: University of the Arts, 2003, 151 pp. Catalogue. [18]
• Douglas Crimp, "Yvonne Rainer, Muciz Lover", Grey Room 22, Winter 2006, pp 48-67.
• Catherine Wood, Yvonne Rainer: The Mind is a Muscle, London: Afterall (One Work), 2007, 118 pp.
• Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s, MIT Press, 2008, 382 pp. Introduction. [19]. Review: Burton (CAA).
• Yvonne Rainer: Space, Body, Language, Bregenz: Kunsthaus, and Cologne: Museum Ludwig, 2012. (German)/(English)
  • Douglas Crimp, "Yvonne Rainer: Lehrreiches vaudeville / Pedagogical Vaudevillian", pp 247-263.
• Siona Wilson, "Structures of Feeling: Yvonne Rainer circa 1974", October 152, Spring 2015, pp 3-25.
• Elise Archias, The Concrete Body: Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci, Yale University Press, 2016, 240 pp. [20]

Recent exhibitions

• The Yvonne Rainer Project, British Film Institute Gallery, London, 26 Nov 2010-23 Jan 2011.
• Yvonne Rainer. Space, Body, Language, Museum Ludwig, 28 Apr-29 Jul 2012. Curated by Bar­bara En­gel­bach and Yil­maz Dziewior.
• Yvonne Rainer: Dances and Films, Getty Research Institute, 27 May-12 Oct 2014.
• Yvonne Rainer: Dance Works 1961-72, Raven Row, London, 11 Jul-10 Aug 2014. Curated by Catherine Wood. Incl. video recordings of new performances of four pieces from the 1960s.
• Embodiment Abstracted: The Influence of Yvonne Rainer, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, 13 Jan-4 Mar 2017. Featured 7 artists' performance and video work from the early 2000s. Curated by Elise Archias.

Links

• Warner Jepson's photographs of Rainer in San Francisco in 1960s