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Yvonne Rainer: Work 1961–73
Yvonne Rainer: Work 1961–73
PRIMARY INFORMATION

“It goes without saying that a dance is a dance and a book about dance is a book. Though they may meet at the intersection of Art and Good Intentions, I find myself greedy. 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, gives 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 ‘She usually makes performances and has also made a book.’” –Yvonne Rainer

Pbk, 7.75 x 10.5 in. / 344 pgs / 225 bw. | 4/14/2020 | In stock
$40.00



Yvonne Rainer: Remembering a Dance
PERFORMA/LENZ/WADSWORTH ATHENEUM

The life and afterlife of Rainer’s landmark dance, with archival documentation and contemporary responses

Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 38 color / 76 bw. | 6/25/2024 | Awaiting stock
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Yvonne Rainer: Space, Body, Language
Yvonne Rainer: Space, Body, Language
KUNSTHAUS BREGENZ/MUSEUM LUDWIG, COLOGNE

Pbk, 7.5 x 10 in. / 296 pgs / 35 color / 107 bw. | 8/31/2012 | Not available
$55.00



Yvonne Rainer: Remembering a DanceYvonne Rainer: Remembering a Dance

Parts of Some Sextets, 1965/2019

Published by Performa/Lenz/Wadsworth Atheneum.
Edited with text by Yvonne Rainer, Emily Coates. Text by RoseLee Goldberg, Jill Johnston, Kathy Noble, Lynne Tillman, David Thomson, Soyoung Yoon. Conversation between Yvonne Rainer, Emily Coates, Nick Mauss.

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.



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Performa/Lenz/Wadsworth Atheneum

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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 38 color / 76 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2023 p. 113   

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STATUS: Forthcoming | 6/25/2024

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Yvonne Rainer: Work 1961–73Yvonne Rainer: Work 1961–73

Published by Primary Information.
Text by Yvonne Rainer.

Forty-five years after its publication, Primary Information brings Yvonne Rainer’s classic book back into print in an exact facsimile.

In 1974, Yvonne Rainer published Work 1961–73, an illustrated catalog of her performance works up to that point. 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. Stripping dance of its pomp and self-serious virtuosity, they created what dancer and choreographer Pat Catterson has called “the people’s dance.” Or, as Rainer put it, instead of the “overblown plot” of traditional dance, she explored the “obvious” alternative: “stand, walk, run, eat, carry bricks, show movies, or move and be moved by some thing other than oneself.”

Work 1961–73 chronicles the years when Rainer found herself and her work at the heart of a revolution in dance, performance and art. Written in Rainer’s wonderful frank, funny and perceptive prose, and illustrated with photographs, handwritten scores, sketches, press articles and ephemera, Work 1961–73 is a period document and an instruction manual, an archive and a manifesto.

A sought-after, rare classic, Work 1961–73 is brought back into print in a true facsimile edition by Primary Information; the only change is the small addition of new notes at the back of the book.

One of the most influential artists of her generation, dancer, choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer (born 1934) was a founding member of Judson Dance Theater in New York City and a leading figure in the development of minimalist and postmodern dance.



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Catalog: FALL 2019 p. 99   

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Yvonne Rainer: Space, Body, LanguageYvonne Rainer: Space, Body, Language

Published by Kunsthaus Bregenz/Museum Ludwig, Cologne.
Edited by Yilmaz Dziewior, Barbara Engelbach. Foreword by Yilmaz Dziewior, Barbara Engelbach, Kaspar König. Text by Gabriele Brandstetter, Douglas Crimp, Yilmaz Dziewior, Barbara Engelbach, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Volker Pantenburg, Catherine Wood.

Despite her years of work and influence as one of the world’s leading choreographers, dancers and filmmakers, Yvonne Rainer (born 1934) has until now not received the retrospective exhibition in Europe that her career deserves. Yvonne Rainer: Space, Body, Language is published for exhibitions at the Kunsthaus Bregenz and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and covers the full spectrum of her work, starting from her foundational New York dance works such as The Mind Is a Muscle (1968), which created a new physical language out of everyday gestures and humdrum objects such as mattresses, barbells and bubblewrap. Moving to her political and feminist films between 1976 and 1996, which took the filmic montage features of her dance (and her incorporation of filmed actions of hands and volleyballs in her performances) to their next level, Space, Body, Language brings us up to the present with Rainer’s return to choreography in 2000 and such recent compositions as Assisted Living: Good Sports 2 (2011) and Spiraling Down (2008). This catalogue presents previously unseen documentation of stage works, notebooks, an astonishing number of dance scores, scripts, movie and exhibition posters and a carefully compiled appendix, as well as essays by Douglas Crimp, Gabriele Brandstetter, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Volker Pantenburg, Catherine Wood and editors Yilmaz Dziewior and Barbara Engelbach.

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Kunsthaus Bregenz/Museum Ludwig, Cologne

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Paperback, 7.5 x 10 in. / 296 pgs / 35 color / 107 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2012 p. 110   

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