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! Read * Feelings Are Facts: A Life (Writing Art) by Yvonne Rainer ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Feelings Are Facts: A Life (Writing Art) "portrait of the artist as a young woman" according to Helen Epstein. This is a beautiful piece of writing and one of the most candid memoirs of the artist as a young woman that I have read. Although dance is not one of my major interests, I found Rainer's attraction to performing and her development as a dancer fascinating and applicable to anyone passionate about any field. Her descriptions of family members and her account of the d. best dance book ever Charles Rotmil this is by far an amazin
| Title | : | Feelings Are Facts: A Life (Writing Art) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.87 (732 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262525100 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 496 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-03 |
| Language | : | English |
And she writes about meeting her longtime partner Martha Gever and discovering the pleasures of domestic life.. -- from Feelings Are FactsIn this memoir, dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer traces her personal and artistic coming of age. 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. 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. If you're interested in Plato, you're reading the wrong book. 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. If you're interested in difficult childhoods, sexual misadventures, aesthetics, cultural history, and the reasons that a club sandwich and ot
"portrait of the artist as a young woman" according to Helen Epstein. This is a beautiful piece of writing and one of the most candid memoirs of the artist as a young woman that I have read. Although dance is not one of my major interests, I found Rainer's attraction to performing and her development as a dancer fascinating and applicable to anyone passionate about any field. Her descriptions of family members and her account of the d. best dance book ever Charles Rotmil this is by far an amazing dance book it is deep and profounda record of process. I knew Yvonne way back then when I would photograph her when she was studying with Dunn and Merceand doing the beginnings of her dance workI loved this book in its personal slanta portrait of those times
Yvonne Rainer is a dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker.
Particularly fascinating are her descriptions of her intentions in creating certain dances and the struggle between directing dancers and allowing improvisation to color the work. Rainer's position at the epicenter of postmodernism in dance in the early '60s is illuminated through descriptions and photographs of working and playing with fellow Judson Dance Theater pioneers such as Trisha Brown and Steve Paxton, as well as artists like Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. . Rainer doesn't have many kind words for anyone in her early years and is equally hard on herself. A ferocious intelligence combined with years of psychotherapy have made her intensely self-aware, and Rainer exposes her flaws, acknowledging
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