Yvonne Rainer

Yvonne Rainer (* November 24 1934 in San Francisco) is an American choreographer, dancer and filmmaker. Her work has been shown on two Documenta exhibitions; it is one of the most important representatives of postmodern dance.

Life

Yvonne Rainer grew up in an immigrant family in San Francisco. Her mother was Jewish and came from Poland, while her father ( an anarchist and painter ) came from Italy. In 1957 she was at the age of 23 years to New York to become an actress. She then was interested in but more of modern dance, and began studying at the Martha Graham School. Later she studied with Merce Cunningham.

Rainer founded in 1962 along with Trisha Brown, Elaine Summers, Meredith Monk and others the Judson Dance Theater, which occurred at the Judson Memorial Church in New York. The first performance on July 6, 1962 is considered as the birth of postmodern dance. After 1970, Rainer turned to the film, and directed several experimental films directed. In 1990, she was honored as a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation. Yvonne Rainer lives and works in New York City and Los Angeles.

Movies

  • Lives of Performers. 1972
  • Film about a Woman Who 1974
  • Kristina Talking Pictures 1976
  • Journey from Berlin/1971. 1980
  • The Man Who Envied Woman 1985
  • Privilege 1990
  • MURDER and murder in 1996

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection )

  • 2012: Yvonne Rainer. Space, body language, and Kunsthaus Bregenz Museum Ludwig Cologne
  • 2004: Yvonne Rainer - Radical Juxtapositions 1961-2002, shown in LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles and in the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Milwaukee.

Participation in group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2007: Performa 07 - The Second Biennial of New Visual Art Performance, New York.
  • 2007: Dancing, Looking, Museum of Contemporary Art, Siegen.
  • 2007: Lights, Camera, Action: Artists' Films for the Cinema, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
  • 2005: Regarding Terror: The RAF-Exhibition, Kunst-Werke Berlin.
  • 2004 - 2005: behind the facts. interfunktionen 1968 - 1975, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona and Fridericianum, Kassel.
  • 2002: Violence is at the edge of all things, Generali Foundation, Vienna.
  • 2000: The Color of Ritual, The Color of Thought - Women Avant -Garde Filmmakers in America, Whitney Museum, New York.
  • 2000: After Image - Drawing Through Process. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, Texas.
  • 1999: Impact: Revealing Sources for Contemporary Art, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore.
  • 1977 documenta 6, Kassel.

Retrospectives

  • 2012: Yvonne Rainer. Space, body language, Museum Ludwig ( Cologne)
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