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8. Yvonne Rainer: We Shall Run (1963)
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Commentary

  • Julia Bryan-Wilson
Throughout the 1960s, the postmodern dance pioneer Yvonne Rainer experimented with diverse scoring techniques, including movement maps, lists, charts, and “people plans,” to capture indeterminate yet rule-based choreography stripped of artifice, expression, and narrative. A series of diagrammatic floor plans sketches out We Shall Run, in which a cluster of “runners” in everyday clothes jog about in unpredictable groupings and patterns. Rainer never believed that a score could faithfully capture the complex dimensions of choreographic space, time, force, and shape; rather, her improvised scores functioned conceptually, as a broad methodology that fueled further innovation. This chapter also includes significant documentation of Rainer’s groundbreaking dance Trio A, part of the evening-length work, The Mind is a Muscle (1966–68).

Score

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Archive

  • Natilee Harren

Highlights

Scores (7 items)

Sketches and materials (11 items)

Programs and flyers (2 items)

Photographs (2 items)

Audio and Video (8 items)

Press clippings (6 items)

Archival materials (1 item)