Yvonne Rainer: The Choreography of Film

Yvonne Rainer's transition from choreography to filmmaking in the 1970s coincided with the widespread social and political impact of the women's movement. Through a close analysis ...

In this essay, I reexamine Yvonne Rainer and Steve Paxton's 1963 danceWord Words, arguing that this apparently “minimalist” work in fact deployed “underground” strategies, those of...

A close reading of Yvonne Rainer’s archival papers reveals new insights into the postmodern iconoclast. Revivifying Rainer’s early choreographic practice and verbalembodied explora...

Desde os anos 1960, no cenário de vanguarda nova-iorquina de Greenwich Village, Yvonne Rainer enveredou no cinema e na dança pela investigação das potencialidades intrínsecas do co...

A common critique directed at many philosophical readings of films is that they fall short of paying careful attention to film aesthetics. The film-philosopher Robert Sinnerbrink, ...

The critical reception of Bill T. Jones’s choreography for the Broadway stage reinvigorates debates about high and low cultural production and reveals persistent critical biases re...

This article explores the intersection of live coding and choreography, discussing the “practice as research” project Hacking Choreography. It examines the use of computer programm...

In response to Shawn Loht’s 2017 project delineating a Heideggerian phenomenology of film, Phenomenology of Film: A Heideggerian Account of the Film Experience, I examine how produ...