Yvonne Rainer
Yvonne Rainer, a co-founding member of the Judson Dance Theater in 1962, made a transition to filmmaking following a 15-year career as a choreographer/dancer (1960?1975). After making seven experimental feature films--Lives of Performers (1972), Privilege (1990), MURDER and murder (1996), among others--she returned to dance in 2000 via a commission from the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation for the White Oak Dance Project (After Many a Summer Dies the Swan). Her dances since then include RoS Indexical and Assisted Living: Do You Have Any Money? She has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, two Rockefellers, a Wexner Prize, and a MacArthur Fellowship. A memoir--Feelings Are Facts: a Life--was published by MIT Press in 2006.
Richard Serra and I were contemporaries and friends in the late 1960s, familiar with each other’s work in sculpture and dance. Our mutual interest in film was particularly apparent in our early ventures into making short films.
