Virtual Bodies | Yvonne Rainer: Revisions
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On the eve of the 2020 US Presidential election, Yvonne Rainer assumed the guise of Apollo Musagète, Leader of the Muses, to perform a “dance rant” that mobilizes her rage against and bafflement at the Age of Trump. Titled, “Revisions: A Truncated History of the Universe for Dummies: A Rant Dance, Lecture, and Letter to Humanity,” this performance is the final iteration in a series of dance rants that began in 2017. After the readings, Rainer, as herself, speaks with editor Rachel Churner about their recently published project Revisions (no place press, 2020), a collection of essays featuring writing by Rainer and Musagète, as well as Gregg Bordowitz, Anna Staniczenko, and Emily Coates. Revisions embodies Rainer’s commitment to the efficacy of the dance rant as activism while also offering topical commentary on, as Apollo states, the “portents of the coming apocalypse.” For an evening filled with political anxiety and anticipation, join us for a cathartic event co-produced by The Kitchen (NYC) and the Visual Studies Department (Eugene Lang, The New School).
Dancer, choreographer, filmmaker and writer Yvonne Rainer has been hailed as one of the most influential artistic figures of the last half century. As a leading figure in the Judson Dance Theater movement, Rainer rose to prominence in the 1960s as an exponent and theorist of minimalism in dance. She abandoned choreography in the early 1970s to become an influential filmmaker, incorporating feminist critique with the techniques of the avant-garde film. Over the next 25 years, Rainer wrote and directed experimental feature films that grappled with issues of privilege, aging, inequality, and postmodernism. In 2000, Rainer returned to dance and choreography in a series of works commissioned by the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation, the Performa Biennial, and the Museum of Modern Art. Her most recent dance, Remembering and Disremembering Trio A, with Excerpts from Peter Scheldahl’s “77 Sunset Me,” was performed in February 2020.
Rachel Churner is an art critic and historian, part-time faculty member at The New School, and the director of the Carolee Schneemann Foundation. She is also a founder of no place press, an imprint committed to publishing critical, challenging, and non-instrumentalized perspectives on a wide range of contemporary and historical cultural subjects. No place press is distributed by The MIT Press.
Organized by Rachel Churner, Joshua Lubin-Levy, and Matthew Lyons. This event is part of VIRTUAL BODIES, a weekly series of webinar discussions, presentations, and performances featuring artists and curators, hosted by faculty from the Department of the Arts at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School.
November 2, 2020 8:00-9:00PM
THE ARTS, LANG | https://www.newschool.edu/lang/arts/
Dancer, choreographer, filmmaker and writer Yvonne Rainer has been hailed as one of the most influential artistic figures of the last half century. As a leading figure in the Judson Dance Theater movement, Rainer rose to prominence in the 1960s as an exponent and theorist of minimalism in dance. She abandoned choreography in the early 1970s to become an influential filmmaker, incorporating feminist critique with the techniques of the avant-garde film. Over the next 25 years, Rainer wrote and directed experimental feature films that grappled with issues of privilege, aging, inequality, and postmodernism. In 2000, Rainer returned to dance and choreography in a series of works commissioned by the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation, the Performa Biennial, and the Museum of Modern Art. Her most recent dance, Remembering and Disremembering Trio A, with Excerpts from Peter Scheldahl’s “77 Sunset Me,” was performed in February 2020.
Rachel Churner is an art critic and historian, part-time faculty member at The New School, and the director of the Carolee Schneemann Foundation. She is also a founder of no place press, an imprint committed to publishing critical, challenging, and non-instrumentalized perspectives on a wide range of contemporary and historical cultural subjects. No place press is distributed by The MIT Press.
Organized by Rachel Churner, Joshua Lubin-Levy, and Matthew Lyons. This event is part of VIRTUAL BODIES, a weekly series of webinar discussions, presentations, and performances featuring artists and curators, hosted by faculty from the Department of the Arts at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School.
November 2, 2020 8:00-9:00PM
THE ARTS, LANG | https://www.newschool.edu/lang/arts/
EUGENE LANG COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS | http://newschool.edu/lang
THE NEW SCHOOL | https://www.newschool.edu/
THE NEW SCHOOL | https://www.newschool.edu/
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