Yvonne Reiner zählt zu den wichtigsten Choreografinnen und Tänzerinnen aus dem zweiten Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ihre Performance- und Film-Arbeiten, die den damals dominierenden Glamour-Aspekt zugunsten eines politischen Anspruchs in den Hintergrund rückte, hatten stets einen starken Bezug zur neuen, experimentellen, “postmodernen” Musik, zu den Mitwirkenden ihres im New Yorker Greenwich Village ansässigen Judson Dance Theatre-Kollektivs zählte u.a. Meredith Monk und der Komponist Malcolm Goldstein. Auf Primary Information erscheint nun eine Faksimile-Ausgabe ihrer wichtigsten Dokumente der 60er- und 70er-Jahre.
“Primary Information is pleased to announce the release of a facsimile edition of Yvonne Rainer’s Work 1961-73, which documents the artist’s landmark early works at the intersection of dance, performance, and art. Originally published in 1974 by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the publication provides multifaceted insight into some of Rainer’s most celebrated choreographic works, including Terrain (1962), Trio A (1966), Continuous Project-Altered Daily (1970), War (1970), Street Action (1970), and This is the story of a woman who … (1973), among many others. Assembled ostensibly as a survey, Work 1961-73 features a multitude of documentary forms, including scripts, excerpts from the artist’s notebooks, press reviews, correspondence, photographic documentation, literary excerpts, contextualizing texts by the artist, diagrams, film stills, floor plans, scores, and more. As such, the publication resembles an artist book that generously gives the reader access to Rainer’s modes of working, as well as the social and political context around which the work was made. The publication is also a book of writing, with the artist’s frank, witty, and sometimes humorous prose intimately leading the reader through each work.” (Primary Information)