Yvonne Rainer Everything is a Performance
![Production still from Privilege 1990 / Director: Yvonne Rainer / Image courtesy: Kino Lorber](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m2obzhc2/production/1a2dca1ab220b5515652b6e7553b09e470b7bb10-1600x1199.jpg?rect=0,279,1600,785&w=320&h=157&q=90&fit=crop)
Production still from Privilege 1990 / Director: Yvonne Rainer / Image courtesy: Kino Lorber / View full image
When
18 – 27 Oct 2024
Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
Accessibility
- Wheelchair Accessible
Admission
Free
About
Yvonne Rainer (b. 1934) is an American dancer, choreographer and filmmaker. She is a pioneering figure of the avant garde movement, with her work crossing mediums in bold and experimental ways.
This program brings together the seven feature films that Rainer directed between 1972 and 1996. These newly restored films include her debut Lives of Performers 1972 – a striking reflection on romantic relationships infused with the language of contemporary dance – as well as the lion tamer odyssey Kristina Talking Pictures 1976, and her final feature MURDER and murder 1996, which explores the late-in-life romance between two women with a playfully personal touch.
Rainer's films have been restored in 4K by the Museum of Modern Art and the Celeste Bartos Fund for Film Preservation. Her films blend archival footage, reconstructions, still photography and innovative audiovisual approaches to explore the personal and the political. Her work has earned her a MacArthur Fellowship, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and three Rockefeller Fellowships – establishing her as one of the key performance artists of the twentieth century.
Further details about the program and screenings will be announced soon.