Yvonne Rainer (born November 24, 1934, San Francisco) is an American choreographer and filmmaker, whose work in both disciplines is frequently challenging and experimental. Events 380 - Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city The United States of America —commonly referred to as the See also, Choreography (literally "dance-writing" from the Greek words "χορεία" (circular dance see chorea) and "γραφή" A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film.
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Choreography
In 1957 Rainer moved to New York to study theater. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous She found herself more strongly drawn to modern dance than acting, however, and began studying at the Martha Graham School and later with Merce Cunningham. Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance is located in New York City and is the headquarter to the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and the Martha Graham Dance See also Merce Cunningham (born April 16, 1919 in Centralia Washington, United States is an American Dancer and choreographer Rainer was one of the organizers of the Judson Dance Theater, a focal point for vanguard activity in the dance world throughout the 1960s, and she formed her own company for a brief time after the Judson performances ended. Judson Dance Theater is located at the Judson Memorial Church, New York. Rainer is noted for an approach to dance that treats the body more as the source of an infinite variety of movements than as the purveyor of emotion or drama. Many of the elements she employed—such as repetition, patterning, tasks, and games—later became standard features of modern dance.
Her best-known dance, “Trio A,” a section of a larger work called The Mind Is a Muscle, consists of a simultaneous performance by three dancers that includes a difficult series of circular and spiral movements. It has been widely adapted and interpreted by other choreographers. She choreographed more than 40 concert works, most notably Terrain and This Is a Woman Who….
Cinema
Rainer sometimes included filmed sequences in her dances, and in the mid-1970s she began to turn her attention to film directing. Her early films do not follow narrative conventions, instead combining reality and fiction, sound and visuals, to address social and political issues. Rainer directed several experimental films about dance and performance, including Lives of Performers (1972), Film About a Woman Who (1974), and Kristina Talking Pictures (1976). Her later films include The Man Who Envied Women (1985), Privilege (1990), and MURDER and murder (1996). The last-mentioned work, more conventional in its narrative structure, is a lesbian love story as well as a reflection on urban life and on breast cancer, and it features Rainer herself. Her film work has received several awards, and in 1990 she was a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship. The John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation is a major private grant -making Private foundation based in Chicago that has awarded more than US$4 billion
Bibliography
- Rainer, Yvonne (2006). Feelings Are Facts: A Life. Cambridge, Massachusetts & London: The MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-18251-3.
- Green, Shelley (1994). Radical Juxtaposition. The films of Yvonne Rainer. New York: Scarecrow Press Inc. . ISBN 0-8108-28634.
External links
- Biography on sensesofcinema.com.
- Review of Feelings Are Facts, by Daniel Ross. Daniel Ross (born 1970 is an Australian philosopher and filmmaker.
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