Distinguished Professor in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at UC Irvine, Yvonne Rainer began her career in the arts, in the 50s, as a dancer and choreographer. In the early 70s, after nearly twenty years working in modern dance, she turned her attentions to filmmaking. Over the subsequent twenty-five years, she made seven experimental feature films, including Lives of Performers (1972), Privilege (1990), and MURDER and murder (1996). Encouraged by a commission from the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation, she returned to choreography in 2000 for the White Oak Dance Project. Recent work includes choreography on AG Indexical, with a little help from H.M. (a revision of Balanchine’s Agon), on RoS Indexical (a revision of Nijinsky’s Rite of Spring), and on Spiraling Down (a meditation on soccer, aging, and war), as well as a video installation for a traveling solo exhibition comprising dance and texts that touch on art and politics in fin-de-siècle Vienna. Rainer published a memoir, Feelings Are Facts: A Life, in 2006.Seminar Reading
Yvonne Rainer. Reflections on Inner Apperances (.doc)
Jonathan Walley. From Objecthood to Subject Matter: Yvonne Rainer's
Transition from Dance to Film; Sense of Cinema, no. 18 (January-Februrary 2002)
