Yvonne rainer

The pioneer of minimalism in dance and Performa founder RoseLee Goldberg reminisce about the old downtown, the 2016 election, and radicalism.

“Photographs really are experience captured,” writes Susan Sontag in On Photography. The camera’s appropriation of living moments, freezing them as images, “feels like knowledge—and, therefore, like power.” When still images are extracted, they are dissociated from their context and, over time, distill the events they represent.

A consideration of experimental game design through the lens of Yvonne Rainer and the Judson Dance Theater.

Yvonne Rainer. Trio A. 1978. 16mm film transferred to standard-definition video (black and white, silent). 10:21 min. Robert Alexander. Sally Banes. Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds. 625.2012. © 2025 Yvonne Rainer. Courtesy Video Data Bank, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Media and Performance

Trio A Dancer, choreographer, filmmaker, and writer Yvonne Rainer is one of the most influential artistic figures of the last 50 years. Her work has been foundational across multiple disciplines and movements: dance, cinema, feminism, minimalism, conceptual art, and postmodernism.

This one seems a bit obvious. But the American choreographer, dancer and filmmaker, Yvonne Rainer is - well, she's Yvonne Rainer. And Hand Movie is her first film and she's so great that obviously the obvious, such as this film, is necessary. After making a bunch of super cool post modern 'minimalist' dances she then started…

The movement upended all notions of what the form could be. Today, it’s still shaping how we see the world around us.