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Yvonne Rainer Biography

Yvonne Rainer (born November 24, 1934) is an American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker, whose work in these disciplines is regarded as challenging and experimental. Her work is sometimes classified as minimalist art. Rainer currently lives and works in New York.

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No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to 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.

Believe, Eccentricity, Magic, Moving, Stars, Style

I should say that feminism gave me permission to deal with my own emotional life and put it up front in certain ways, or use film as a way to examine, at that time, my own heterosexual experience. Lives of Performers was the beginning of that kind of investigation. But also, the film was influenced by the aesthetics and structures of experimental film as that was taking place at the same time. Hollis Frampton was a big influence on me at that time.

Aesthetics, Emotional, Feminism, Film, Influenced, Kind

I always like to cite John Cage's mantra, "If you can stand it for two-minutes, try it for four. " In fact, when I look at some of those early films of mine, I think, "Oh my God. Cut it, cut it. " The general sense of duration has changed over the years, my own sensibility with it.

Cut, Cutting, Early, Mantra, Thinking, Trying

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Ahmad Sa'adat

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Isa Boletini

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Eoin Colfer

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Caitlin Fitzgerald

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Eric Snow

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