December 2011
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WatchWhen asked about the use of comedic timing in her work Yvonne talked about how its use is important to help bear the load of heavy subject matter.She referred to Steve Martin and Robin Williams as dancers. She did use Robin Williams as inspiration for a portion of choreography in RoS Indexical. I layered the sound track from RoS Indexical over performances by Steve Martin and Robin Williams.
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Response of Yvonne's Workshop
Feeling about exploring my “self”, and disappearing the boundary in between my body and mind, I had amazing experience at Yvonne’s workshop. I have received her performing “Score”, which contained several circles and arrows on the copy paper. I was allowed to interpret any way that I felt. When I started to move through the score, my body and brain were not free from...
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Yvonne Rainer's visit by Mami's note
Yvonne Rainer Lecture Nov. 17, at PNCA “ What is the Passion ”
Self/ Expression Anything human body does express Moments are expressive, treated as physiology
Look At 1)Conceptual/ self consciousness Performer- avoid audiences’ gazes 2) Distinction between performance and dance Selflessness Rational practice, not personal express= self management/presentation...
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Being Watched - Yvonne Rainer & the 1960s by Carrie Lambert-Beatty
In her dance and performances of the 1960s, Yvonne Rainer famously transformed the performing body—stripped it of special techniques and star status, traded its costumes and leotards for T-shirts and sneakers, and asked it to haul mattresses or recite texts rather than leap or spin. Without discounting these innovations, Carrie...
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Yvonne Rainer 1965 "No Manifesto"
No to spectacle. No to virtuosity. No to transformations and magic and make-believe. No to the glamour and transcendency of the star image. No to the heroic. No to the anti-heroic. No to trash imagery. No to involvement of performer or spectator. No to style. No to camp. No to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the performer. No to eccentricity. No to moving or being moved
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YouTube comments (partially in conversation) on...
foreverhisbeloved: but was intended as a "clean-scrubbed" dance
foreverhisbeloved: to emphasize a nongendered, natural body.
foreverhisbeloved: This was said by Janice Lapointe-Crump
odyoberfelder: Amazing. Nothing is arbitrary.
riotofdablood: srly, wtf is dizza shit!!!?
gmsoyls: classic rainer.
gmsoyls: @riotofdablood its called modern dance, you dolt.
riotofdablood: @gmsoyls no shit !!
portinfinite: hot
saltspacefilms: I dislike jumping into these conversations, but feel the need to clarify: this is not modern dance, it's post-modern. Yvonne Rainer is one of the key figures who helped initiate and develop this new philosophy (of saying "No" to glamour, to the climax, to narcissism, to technique, etc as delineated in her text, "No Manifesto") around dance in the 1960s. I believe she wanted to show us that even the pedestrian and the mundane could be considered as dance.
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Emotional Minimalism →
On Yvonne Rainer’s memoir, Feelings are Facts.
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Yvonne quotes from our afternoon Q&A:
“Beware of icons.”
“Trust your instincts and experiences.”
“The occupy movement is raising awareness to walls we should be banging our head against.”
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The PSU MFA Studio Practice group, along with...
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“The audience will take care of themselves.”
– Yvonne Rainer during our class visit at PNCA
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November 2011
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