"To read Rainer's screenplays is to rediscover, even reinvent, the films all over again, but more importantly to realize that images and mise-en-scène are as key to how Rainer's films work as is language." ―The Independent
"The scripts record the unique structure of [Rainer's] films, the stresses, strains, and crackling of voices layering over and into one another. Their publication is an important moment for feminist film." ―Cineaste
"Rainer's films are not highly accessible but are important to the critical imagination as an example of the sustained exploration of political and feminist theory." ―Choice
"Rainer's important work in the area of avant-garde filmmaking in the seventies and eighties is amply recorded in this book... " ―Cantrills Filmnotes'
The scripts of Rainer's five films, presented here along with essays, an interview, and bibliography, demonstrate the evolution of her political consciousness as well as her creative engagement with the contemporary film and cultural scene. These texts challenge the illusionist and ideological presumptions of mainstream culture and cinema.

The Films of Yvonne Rainer (Theories of Representation and Difference)

Humor & Entertainment

Rainer, Yvonne

Movies

Indiana University Press

Brings together the film scripts of a filmmaker known for her avant-garde feminist approach to the genre

Films of Yvonne Rainer (Theories of Representation and Difference)

Indiana Univ. Pr

If you're interested in Plato, you're reading the wrong book. If you're interested in difficult childhoods, sexual misadventures, aesthetics, cultural history, and the reasons that a club sandwich and other meals -- including breakfast -- have remained in the memory of the present writer, keep reading. -- from Feelings Are Facts 
In this memoir, dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer traces her personal and artistic coming of age. Feelings Are Facts (the title comes from a dictum by Rainer's one-time psychotherapist) uses diary entries, letters, program notes, excerpts from film scripts, snapshots, and film-frame enlargements to present a vivid portrait of an extraordinary artist and woman in postwar America. 
Rainer tells of a California childhood in which she was farmed out by her parents to foster families and orphanages, of sexual and intellectual initiations in San Francisco and Berkeley, and of artistic discoveries and accomplishments in the New York City dance world. Rainer studied with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham in the late 1950s and early 1960s, cofounded the Judson Dance Theater in 1962, hobnobbed with New York artists including Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Morris (her lover and partner for several years), and Yoko Ono, and became involved with feminist and antiwar causes in the 1970s and 1980s. Rainer writes about how she constructed her dances -- including The Mind Is a Muscle and its famous section, Trio A, as well as the recent After Many a Summer Dies the Swan -- and about turning from dance to film and back to dance. And she writes about meeting her longtime partner Martha Gever and discovering the pleasures of domestic life.

Feelings Are Facts: A Life (Autobiography)

Mit Pr

Memoir by the avant-garde dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker recounting her childhood years, sexual misadventures, and artistic explorations.
If you're interested in Plato, you're reading the wrong book. If you're interested in difficult childhoods, sexual misadventures, aesthetics, cultural history, and the reasons that a club sandwich and other meals―including breakfast―have remained in the memory of the present writer, keep reading. ―from Feelings Are Facts
In this memoir, dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer traces her personal and artistic coming of age. Feelings Are Facts (the title comes from a dictum by Rainer's one-time psychotherapist) uses diary entries, letters, program notes, excerpts from film scripts, snapshots, and film-frame enlargements to present a vivid portrait of an extraordinary artist and woman in postwar America. 
Rainer tells of a California childhood in which she was farmed out by her parents to foster families and orphanages, of sexual and intellectual initiations in San Francisco and Berkeley, and of artistic discoveries and accomplishments in the New York City dance world. Rainer studied with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham in the late 1950s and early 1960s, cofounded the Judson Dance Theater in 1962, hobnobbed with New York artists including Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Morris (her lover and partner for several years), and Yoko Ono, and became involved with feminist and antiwar causes in the 1970s and 1980s. Rainer writes about how she constructed her dances―including The Mind Is a Muscle and its famous section, Trio A, as well as the recent After Many a Summer Dies the Swan―and about turning from dance to film and back to dance. And she writes about meeting her longtime partner Martha Gever and discovering the pleasures of domestic life.

Feelings Are Facts: A Life (Writing Art)

The MIT Press

Yvonne Rainer is one of the most important feminist, avant-garde filmmakers working today. She began her career as a dancer and choreographer, and was one of the founders of hte Judson Dance Theater. Since the mid-1970s, however, she has worked almost entirely in film and here works in that medium have been the subject of more than a dozen retrospectives, the most recent of which was at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. She has been honored with honorary degrees from art schools and with fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations.
Her works have unblinkingly explored such issues as menopause, breast cancer, lesbianism, sexual dissatisfaction,a nd political violence against women. Increasingly, they have moved beyond the festiva circuit to premiere in art theaters in the United States as well as overseas. Her most recent feature-length film, Murder and Murder (the script of which is included in this volume), opened in New York last month.

A Woman Who...: Essays, Interviews, Scripts (PAJ Books: Art + Performance)

Johns Hopkins University Press

Work, 1961-1973

Introduction : When I first started dancing in performances, someone said " But she walks as though she's in the street." If it could only be said" She writers about her work as though she's performing it, " I would be happy indeed. That such a thing were possible. 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. Contents: An imperfect reminiscence of my studies and the beginning of a career and contingent events. Terrain Parts of some sextets The mind is a muscle 1968-70 War, Judson Flag Show, Indian Journal , Grand Union Dreams 1972 1973 Flashback Scrapbook Epilogue

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

New York University Press

On Value is a collaboration between Triple Canopy and choreographer/artist Ralph Lemon. The book is a multifarious conversation about the value of artworks and the labor and bodies that make them, especially as defined by institutions with whom artists have often had fraught relationships. In essays, poems, interviews and artworks, 19 contributors consider artworks that resist institutional parameters; how and why performers, choreographers and dancers might go about making art institutions into proper venues for their works; and how race figures into assessments of value. On Value emerges from Value Talks, a series of private conversations organized by Lemon in 2013 and 2014 at MoMA.

Triple Canopy and Ralph Lemon: On Value

Moten, Fred

Bishop, Claire

Bither, Philip

Lowry, Glenn

Finkelpearl, Tom

Edwards, Adrienne

Ligon, Glenn

Lax, Thomas

Beasley, Kevin

Court, Paula

Janevski, Ana

La Rocco, Claudia

Michelson, Sarah

Pendleton, Adam

Rawls, William

History & Criticism

Triple Canopy

This volume, which includes three dozen illustrations, is a wide-ranging collection of Yvonne Rainer’s personal writings and interviews on such topics as cultural politics, lesbianism, violence, breast cancer, and many of her dances and films. It also features scripts of two of her films, Privilege and MURDER and murder.

A Woman Who . . .: Essays, Interviews, Scripts (Art + Performance)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

PAJ Publications

From her work in dance and choreography to her films and writings, Yvonne Rainer (born 1934) has established herself as one of the America’s greatest living artists. This first collection of her poems, which were written from the late 1990s onwards and have never before been published, affirms her ability to endow words with corporeality, propulsion and swift-moving narrative. Full of wit and candor, Rainer’s poems evoke the rhythm of an urban landscape peopled with old friends and colleagues, trying to make art or simply trying to make ends meet. Memories entangle with news headlines and conversations overheard on the subway, making the poems feel both intimate yet social. Accompanying the poems is a selection of black-and-white images curated by Rainer, varying from news clippings to intimate photographs from Rainer’s personal archive. Poet and critic Tim Griffin contributes an introduction.

Poems by Yvonne Rainer

Poetry

Badlands Unlimited

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