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Feelings Are Facts - A Life (Paperback)
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Feelings Are Facts - A Life (Paperback)
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Memoir by the avant-garde dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker
recounting her childhood years, sexual misadventures, and artistic
explorations. If you're interested in Plato, you're reading the
wrong book. If you're interested in difficult childhoods, sexual
misadventures, aesthetics, cultural history, and the reasons that a
club sandwich and other meals-including breakfast-have remained in
the memory of the present writer, keep reading. -from Feelings Are
Facts In this memoir, dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker Yvonne
Rainer traces her personal and artistic coming of age. Feelings Are
Facts (the title comes from a dictum by Rainer's one-time
psychotherapist) uses diary entries, letters, program notes,
excerpts from film scripts, snapshots, and film-frame enlargements
to present a vivid portrait of an extraordinary artist and woman in
postwar America. Rainer tells of a California childhood in which
she was farmed out by her parents to foster families and
orphanages, of sexual and intellectual initiations in San Francisco
and Berkeley, and of artistic discoveries and accomplishments in
the New York City dance world. Rainer studied with Martha Graham
and Merce Cunningham in the late 1950s and early 1960s, cofounded
the Judson Dance Theater in 1962, hobnobbed with New York artists
including Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Morris (her lover and partner
for several years), and Yoko Ono, and became involved with feminist
and antiwar causes in the 1970s and 1980s. Rainer writes about how
she constructed her dances-including The Mind Is a Muscle and its
famous section, Trio A, as well as the recent After Many a Summer
Dies the Swan-and about turning from dance to film and back to
dance. And she writes about meeting her longtime partner Martha
Gever and discovering the pleasures of domestic life.
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