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Renee Green: Pacing (Paperback)
Renee Green; Foreword by Dan Byers; Text written by Renee Green, Gloria Sutton, William Smith, …
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Revisions (Paperback)
Yvonne Rainer
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The final iteration of Rainer's dance rant A Truncated History of
the Universe for Dummies, accompanied by texts offering a real-time
account of Rainer's creative process.Choreographer and filmmaker
Yvonne Rainer has long investigated the ways in which movement can
be a political act in and of itself--on the stage, on the screen,
or at the lectern. In Revisions, Rainer pushes her interest in
embodied activism to a new arena: what she calls the "dance rant."
This volume includes the final iteration of Rainer's latest dance
rant, entitled A Truncated History of the Universe for Dummies.
This performance piece evolved in live presentations in Dublin,
Stockholm, and New York before being expanded and adapted in
written form here. In this now-completed work, Rainer mobilizes her
rage and bafflement at contemporary political events through the
guise of Apollo, Leader of the Muses. Revisions also includes a
compilation of emails and diary entries that provide a real-time
account of Rainer's process of creating and workshopping a dance.
"Pedagogical Vaudeville 3" reveals Rainer's consistent interest in
reworking and reconsidering material across multiple mediums,
formats, and contexts, and offers an unique glimpse at the working
methods of one of this century's preeminent dance artists.
Bookended with an introduction by artist and scholar Gregg
Bordowitz and an analysis of Rainer's AG Indexical with a Little
Help from H. M. by dance historian Anna Staniczenko, these texts
serve not only as a revision of the conventional understanding of
five decades of Rainer's production, but also as a timely manual
for performance as an act of resistance.
"To read Rainer's screenplays is to rediscover, even reinvent,
the films all over again, but more importantly to realize that
images and mise-en-scene are as key to how Rainer's films work as
is language." The Independent
"The scripts record the unique structure of Rainer's] films, the
stresses, strains, and crackling of voices layering over and into
one another. Their publication is an important moment for feminist
film." Cineaste
"Rainer's films are not highly accessible but are important to
the critical imagination as an example of the sustained exploration
of political and feminist theory." Choice
"Rainer's important work in the area of avant-garde filmmaking
in the seventies and eighties is amply recorded in this book... "
Cantrills Filmnotes'
The scripts of Rainer's five films, presented here along with
essays, an interview, and bibliography, demonstrate the evolution
of her political consciousness as well as her creative engagement
with the contemporary film and cultural scene. These texts
challenge the illusionist and ideological presumptions of
mainstream culture and cinema."
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Philosophie -
Praktische (Ethik, Asthetik, Kultur, Natur, Recht, ...), Note: 1.3,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Veranstaltung: Grundkurs
Politische Philosophie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Um die
Leitfrage beantworten zu konnen, wird in Teil 2.1 zunachst genauer
untersucht, was Aristoteles uberhaupt unter Gluckseligkeit"
versteht. In Teil 2.2 soll dann die philosophische Anthropologie
betrachtet werden, um die Beziehung des Individuums zu seinen
Mitmenschen, der Gemeinschaft, zu entschlusseln. Ausserdem wird
festgestellt, ob sich die einfache Gemeinschaft von einer
staatlichen Gemeinschaft unterscheidet und inwieweit der Mensch,
der in ihr lebt, glucklich werden kann. In Abschnitt 2.3 wird die
Verschiedenheit der Lebensformen des Betrachtens" und des
politischen Lebens" aufgezeigt und welche von beiden die beste Form
fur den Menschen ist, um Gluckseligkeit fur sein Leben zu erlangen.
Im letzten Teil des Hauptteils wird das Phanomen der Freundschaft
untersucht; ob Freundschaft wichtig fur den Menschen ist, um
gluckselig zu werden, und ihre Bedeutung fur das
zwischenmenschlichen Gefuge - da die Freundschaft in ihrem Wesen
das private und das politische Leben umfasst. Ziel der Arbeit ist
es, anhand der Ermittlungen die Leitfrage zu beantworten. Mit Hilfe
der Darstellungen von Aristoteles' Lehren soll herausgefunden
werden, inwieweit der Mensch, der hier als Mittelding zwischen Tier
und Gott gesehen wird, die Gesellschaft - genauer gesagt die
politische Gemeinschaft (polis) - benotigt, um Gluckseligkeit zu
erlangen. Das Schlusswort gilt der Uberlegung, inwiefern
Aristoteles' Thesen uber das Gluck in der Gegenwart Gultigkeit
erhalten und ob das Erlangen der vollkommenen Gluckseligkeit fur
den Menschen von heute etwas leichter in einer (staatlichen)
Gemeinschaft gelingt oder eher ausserhalb von ihr. Als
Primarquellen werden fur diese Arbeiten die Werke Politik"
(Abkurzung im Folgenden mit: Pol.) und Nikomachisc
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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