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Yvonne Rainer
American film director, choreographer, dancer (born 1934)
Yvonne Rainer (born November 24, 1934) is an American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker, whose work in these disciplines is regarded as challenging and experimental.[1] Her work is sometimes classified as minimalist art. Rainer currently lives and works in New York.[2]
Early life
Yvonne Rainer was born on November 24, 1934, in San Francisco, California.[1] Her parents, Joseph and Jeanette, considered themselves radicals. Her mother, a stenographer, was born in Brooklyn to Jewish immigrants from Warsaw, and her father, a stonemason and house painter, was born in Vallanzengo, northern Italy, and emigrated to the United States at the age of 21.[3]
Rainer grew up, along with an older brother, in the Sunset District of San Francisco, which she has described as "a neighborhood of white Protestant working class families". From the age of twelve, she was "exposed to the heady commingling of poets, painters, writers, and Italian anarchists."[4]
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Yvonne Rainer
To quote Steve Paxton, at one point we were joking and he said that he invented walking and I invented running.
Born November 24, 1934, San Francisco, CA
Yvonne Rainer was raised by parents who considered themselves radicals. Her mother was of Polish-Jewish descent and her father of Italian ancestry.At a young age, her father introduced her to films, while her mother enrolled her in dance classes. She dropped out of college after a year and moved to New York at age twenty-two where she studied with Anna Halprin, Merce Cunningham, James Waring and Mia Slavenska, and danced in the companies of Waring and Edith Stephen. In 1962, along with Steve Paxton and Ruth Emerson, Rainer approached the Reverend Al Carmines to ask if they could begin performing at the Judson Memorial Church, founding the Judson Church Theater. Rainer formed her own company after the Judson performances ended and her style was " . . . eclectic, theatrical, even surrealistic. Her favored method was juxtaposition of radically diverse elements, sometimes by chance." (Sally Banes) Rainer's famous
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Yvonne Rainer
Rainer dancing Trio A (1967), 1978. | |
| Born | November 24, 1934(1934-11-24) San Francisco, California, United States |
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| Lives in | California and New York |
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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
- Short
- 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. Features five, all of the short films Rainer made prior to her first feature-length film, many of which were incorporated into her performance works. Subjects include the perpetual motion of
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