These photographic contact sheets created by the French photographer and experimental filmmaker Babette Mangolte of an early 1980s performance of We Shall Run invite reflection on how different modes of documentation impact the reception of a dance. While some photographs of Rainer’s dances have become iconic stand-ins for performances that are in reality irreducibly complex, these cinematic contact sheets offer a more textured representation of the dance that enables us to dwell on otherwise ephemeral, quick-shifting movements. This performance of We Shall Run was also captured in a video, included in chapter 8.
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| Title | We Shall Run (1963), performed at Bennington College, Bennington, VT |
| Maker | Yvonne Rainer (American, b. 1934) |
| Date | ca. early 1980s |
| Medium | photograph contact sheets |
| Type | photograph |
| Location | Getty Research Institute, Yvonne Rainer Papers, 2006.M.24, box 82 |
Cite
Rainer, Yvonne. We Shall Run (1963),
performed at Bennington College, Bennington, VT, ca.
early 1980s. Getty Research Institute, Yvonne Rainer
Papers, 2006.M.24, box 82. In
The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music,
Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975, ed. Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John
Hicks. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025.
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