[studio]

Yvonne Rainer’s visit by Mami’s note

Yvonne Rainer Lecture Nov. 17, at PNCA
“ What is the Passion ”

1. Self/ Expression
      Anything human body does express  
      Moments are expressive, treated as physiology

2. 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
       Subject and object
   3) Refuse engage with others- become social contact
       Independence
       Ignoring subjectivity
       Accusing/refusing/ relation/ un-presentation
   4) Mid 60s- not looking- feminists’ femaleness/sexual identification

3. Politics
   After Sep.11, avoid direct political issue
   Instability gender identity
   Effect identity/ femininity
   Examination performing practice
     Per-formative body
   Increasing to subjectivity  
     Geshan Marks (?)
   Traditional self expression to self
   Performance’s persona
   Robin Williams- Hip Hop posture performance
      Female/white-muscularity/Macho effect

From questions:
Film “ Privilege” –a woman lives in El Paso, looked to Jurez, Mexico, realized her self identity was based on a man    

Seminar

1.  Utopia = always in the future/ impossibility/ not real politic yet/Skeptical / Something lead us
2. Dance- general/ not deal with topics
3. Language- important. Her roll is reader/leader (?)
4. Torio A – mind is a muscle part of one “ 1978
5. Ment to be trio/ each person own each pace/ not unison 
   Questions about viewers’ gaze/Residency of dance/Museum- kind of copy cat
6.  Invention/ innovation
   1) Radical des-position
   2) Fragments – not extend/ how juxtapose someone bring in/ everyday accident
   3)accumulate process/ detail attention