A Woman Who...: Selected Works of Yvonne Rainer
02:11:00 | 2 DVDs
Collection: Single Artist Compilations, DVD Box Sets
Tags: Body, Conceptual Art, Dance, History, Performance
This 2-DVD collection features five early films, a historically important dance and a recent work by media artist and choreographer Yvonne Rainer, and a documentary portrait by Charles Atlas. The collection includes a booklet featuring a detailed biography, bibliography and videography of Yvonne Rainer, and the following contextualizing essays:
- After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: Hybrid -- Bill Horrigan
- Rainer Variations -- Carrie Lambert
- Yvonne Rainer: The Aesthetics of Denial -- Sally Banes
Included Titles
Yvonne Rainer combines a dance performance she choreographed for Mikhail Barryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project in 2000 with texts by Oscar Kokoschka, Adolf Loos, Arnold Schoenberg, and Ludwig Wittgenstein—four of the most radical...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: dance, literature |
"In the spring of 2002 I handed over to Charles Atlas a collection of films and videotapes in various formats that I had been accumulating with an eye to his editing them into what I call a "faux Rainer portrait" (though he may well call the...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: dance, documentary |
I worked on Trio A alone for six months in 1965. The dance consisted initially of a 5-minute sequence of movement that would eventually be presented as The Mind is a Muscle, Part I at Judson Church on January 10, 1966. There it...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: dance, documentary, experimental film |
A compilation of five early short films made between 1966 to 1969. Hand Movie 1966, 5:00, b&w, silent, 8mm Close-up of a hand, the fingers of which enact a sensuous dance. Camerawork by William Davis....
Collection: Single Titles Tags: body, dance, experimental film, performance |
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