This text was written as a script for Yvonne Rainer to recite, tape-record, and then play back for students in a movement workshop. Like Rainer’s notes for the possibilities of movement with the arms, hands, legs, and feet, here she narrates a series of basic movements that can be done with different parts of the body. Eschewing virtuosic movements, she writes, “I am more interested in an immediate simultaneous kind of continuity that anybody can master & keep going once you get the hang of it.”
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Notes on arms, hands, legs, and feet, from
Yvonne Rainer’s dance scripts notebook (ca.
1962)
Untitled notebook pages on performer versus
audience (ca. 1963)
Notes on equivalencies and objects (ca. early
1960s)
Notes related to The Mind Is a Muscle,
including Trio A and
Trio B (1965–66)
“Class Moving Definitions: For Yvonne Rainer”
(ca. 1960s)
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| Title | “Lecture for a Group of Expectant People” |
| Maker | Yvonne Rainer (American, b. 1934) |
| Date | September 1968 |
| Type | sketches and materials |
| Location | Getty Research Institute, Yvonne Rainer Papers, 2006.M.24, box 22, folder 6 |
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Rainer, Yvonne. “Lecture for a Group of Expectant
People”, September 1968. Getty Research Institute,
Yvonne Rainer Papers, 2006.M.24, box 22, folder 6. 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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