{"id":7833,"title":"Yvonne Rainer","kind":"bio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/yvonne-rainer","version":"d5b55137e270ec20a0169f6caa1ef028a08416c9d4d59e1ebc8fed4f7d858a49","modified":"2011-06-18T00:00:42+00:00","credits":[],"authorKeys":[],"subjects":["bio"],"metadata":[{"label":"First name","value":"Yvonne","url":null},{"label":"Last name","value":"Rainer","url":null}],"citations":{"page":"\u0022Yvonne Rainer.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/yvonne-rainer.","publication":null,"risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/7833.ris"},"links":[],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":1717},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":758}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"Yvonne Rainer was born in San Francisco in 1934. She trained as a modern dancer in New York from 1957 and began to choreograph her own work in 1960. She was one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater in 1962, the genesis of a movement that proved to be a vital force in modern dance in the following decades. Some of her better known dances and theater pieces are \u0022Terrain\u0022 (1963), \u0022The Mind is a Muscle\u0022 (1968), \u0022Continuous Project-Altered Daily\u0022 (1969-70), and \u0022This is the story of a woman who...\u0022 (1973), and \u0022After Many a Summer Dies the Swan\u0022 (2000, commissioned by the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation). Rainer\u0027s films deal with a number of aesthetic and social issues, such as melodrama, menopause, racism, political violence, sexual identity, and notions of disease. Her films have been shown at major international film festivals. Her most recent book--\u0022A Woman Who...: Essays, Interviews, Scripts\u0022 -- was published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. In 2002 the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery in Philadelphia mounted a Rainer exhibition consisting of video installations, film screenings, and dance photos and memorabilia. Rainer is the recipient of a number of awards, including two Guggenheim Fellowships and a MacArthur Fellowship. Since 1972 Rainer has completed seven feature-length films, beginning with \u0022Lives of Performers\u0022 and more recently \u0022Privilege\u0022 (1990, winner of the Filmmakers\u0027 Trophy at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, and the Geyer Werke Prize at the 1991 International Documentary Film Festival in Munich), and \u0022MURDER and murder\u0022 (1996, winner of the Teddy Award at the 1997 Berlin Film Festival and Special Jury Award at the 1999 Miami Lesbian and Gay Film Festival).","offset":0,"nextOffset":null,"totalCharacters":1717,"complete":true},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}