Yvonne Rainer

Yvonne Rainer

Yvonne Rainer was born in San Francisco in 1934. She trained as a modern dancer in New York and began to choreograph her own work in 1960. She was one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater in 1962, a movement that proved to be a vital force in modern dance in the following decades. Between 1962 and 1975 Rainer presented her choreography throughout the U.S. and Europe. In 2000 and 2001 Rainer returned to dance via commissions from the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation to choreograph work for the White Oak Dance Project, including a 35-minute piece called After Many a Summer Dies the Swan. Since 1972, Rainer has completed seven feature-length films, beginning with Lives of Performers (1972) and more recently The Man Who Envied Women (1985), Privilege (1990), and MURDER and murder (1996). Rainer has received numerous awards and fellowships for her work, including two Guggenheim Fellowships (1969, 1988), three Rockefeller Fellowships (1988, 1990, 1996), a MacArthur Fellowship (1990-95), and a Wexner Prize (1995), as well as four Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degrees. Yvonne Rainer: Work 1961-73 was published by Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and New York University Press in 1974; The Films of Yvonne Rainer, a collection of her film scripts, was published by Indiana University Press in 1989; and A Woman Who...: Essays, Interviews, Scripts was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1999. Rainer's latest choreographic work, based on Balanchine's AGON, was presented at Dance Theater Workshop, April 2006, subsequently traveling to the Getty Museum. A memoir, Feelings are Facts: A Life, was published by MIT Press in 2006.

  • Title : Yvonne Rainer
  • Popularity : 0.878
  • Known For : Directing
  • Birthday : 1934-11-24
  • Place of Birth : San Francisco, California, USA
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Yvonne Rainer Movies

  • 2017
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    Just Back from Los Angeles: A Portrait of Yvonne Rainer

    Just Back from Los Angeles: A Portrait of Yvonne Rainer

    1 2017 HD

    Adam Pendleton’s Just Back From Los Angeles: A Portrait of Yvonne Rainer is the third in a series of video portraits, following My Education: A...

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  • 1985
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    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    1 1985 HD

    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

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  • 2015
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    Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer

    Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer

    1 2015 HD

    Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer chronicles the defiant, uncompromising, and highly influential ideas of postmodern choreographer and...

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  • 1966
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    Hand Film

    Hand Film

    1 1966 HD

    Rainer's first film, Hand Film, was shot by fellow dancer William Davis when Rainer was confined to a hospital bed, recovering from major surgery and...

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  • 1978
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    Madame X - An Absolute Ruler

    Madame X - An Absolute Ruler

    4 1978 HD

    The notorious pirate ruler Madame X places a print ad, calling on women to escape their boring lives and promising "gold, love and adventure" to all...

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  • 1990
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    Privilege

    Privilege

    4.4 1990 HD

    Privilege is an intelligently conceived, boldly anarchic, and wickedly insightful exposition on the culturally ingrained and socially divisive...

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  • 1976
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    Kristina Talking Pictures

    Kristina Talking Pictures

    4 1976 HD

    Kristina, a self-named Hungarian female lion tamer, arrives in New York to become a dance choreographer. Kristina, now a middle-class NYC artist...

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  • 1980
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    Journeys from Berlin/1971

    Journeys from Berlin/1971

    9 1980 HD

    An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia.

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  • 1972
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    Lives of Performers

    Lives of Performers

    5.3 1972 HD

    Embodying Rainer’s aesthetic rigor and wit, the film combines fiction and documentary, script readings, dance snippets, still photos, and...

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  • 1978
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    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

    8 1978 HD

    Grand Opera marks a stock-taking of Benning's work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a series of...

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  • 1975
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    What Maisie Knew

    What Maisie Knew

    5 1975 HD

    The film is about looking. I bet that slight variations of few recurrent elements would encourage the viewer to free associate and to fantasize a...

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  • 1974
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    Film About a Woman Who…

    Film About a Woman Who…

    5 1974 HD

    Rainer’s landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story...

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  • 2013
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    What Is Cinema?

    What Is Cinema?

    6.2 2013 HD

    Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...

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  • 1978
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    Cinématon

    Cinématon

    4.3 1978 HD

    Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

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  • 1970
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    Trio A with Flags

    Trio A with Flags

    1 1970 HD

    Judson Memorial Church on the occasion of the People’s Flag Show, 1970. Film by Rudi Stern, John Reilly. Performers: David Gordon, Nancy Green,...

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  • 1980
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    Cinématon X

    Cinématon X

    1 1980 HD

    Reel 10 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

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  • 2009
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    Salomania

    Salomania

    1 2009 HD

    Salomania reconstructs a dance: the ‘dance of the seven veils’ from Alla Nazimova’s 1923 silent film Salomé. Also shown and...

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  • 1990
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    Privilege

    Privilege

    4.4 1990 HD

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  • 1972
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    Lives of Performers

    Lives of Performers

    5.3 1972 HD

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  • 1974
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    Film About a Woman Who…

    Film About a Woman Who…

    5 1974 HD

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  • 1966
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    Hand Film

    Hand Film

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1976
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    Kristina Talking Pictures

    Kristina Talking Pictures

    4 1976 HD

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  • 1980
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    Journeys from Berlin/1971

    Journeys from Berlin/1971

    9 1980 HD

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  • 1985
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    The Man Who Envied Women

    The Man Who Envied Women

    5.2 1985 HD

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  • 1985
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    The Man Who Envied Women

    The Man Who Envied Women

    5.2 1985 HD

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  • 1985
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    The Man Who Envied Women

    The Man Who Envied Women

    5.2 1985 HD

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  • 1996
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    MURDER and murder

    MURDER and murder

    5.1 1996 HD

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  • 1996
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    MURDER and murder

    MURDER and murder

    5.1 1996 HD

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  • 1996
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    MURDER and murder

    MURDER and murder

    5.1 1996 HD

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  • 1996
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    MURDER and murder

    MURDER and murder

    5.1 1996 HD

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  • 1967
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    Volleyball (Foot Film)

    Volleyball (Foot Film)

    3.8 1967 HD

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  • 1969
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    Line

    Line

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1968
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    Rhode Island Red

    Rhode Island Red

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1968
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    Trio Film

    Trio Film

    1 1968 HD

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  • 2023
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    I Cannot Now Recall

    I Cannot Now Recall

    1 2023 HD

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  • 1974
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    Film About a Woman Who…

    Film About a Woman Who…

    5 1974 HD

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  • 1974
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    Film About a Woman Who…

    Film About a Woman Who…

    5 1974 HD

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  • 1972
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    Lives of Performers

    Lives of Performers

    5.3 1972 HD

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  • 1972
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    Lives of Performers

    Lives of Performers

    5.3 1972 HD

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  • 1976
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    Kristina Talking Pictures

    Kristina Talking Pictures

    4 1976 HD

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  • 1980
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    Journeys from Berlin/1971

    Journeys from Berlin/1971

    9 1980 HD

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  • 2002
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    After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: Hybrid

    After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: Hybrid

    1 2002 HD

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  • 2002
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    Rainer Variations

    Rainer Variations

    1 2002 HD

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  • 1978
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    Trio A

    Trio A

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1990
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    Privilege

    Privilege

    4.4 1990 HD

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  • 1990
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    Privilege

    Privilege

    4.4 1990 HD

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  • 1990
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    Privilege

    Privilege

    4.4 1990 HD

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