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469

Title Notes on equivalencies and objects
Maker Yvonne Rainer (American, b. 1934)
Date ca. early 1960s
Type sketches and materials
Location Getty Research Institute, Yvonne Rainer Papers, 2006.M.24, box 31.b, folder 20

These brief notes offer insight into Yvonne Rainer’s thinking about how the performance of task-like activities can reorient our perception of the dancing body. She writes, “If one is skillful and sensitive one can redistribute the ‘load’ that physical presence carries so that previously charged material becomes uncharged and previously innocuous or banal material becomes fraught with tension, anxiety, expectation.”

Used with Permission. © Yvonne Rainer.

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Rainer, Yvonne. Notes on equivalencies and objects, ca. early 1960s. Getty Research Institute, Yvonne Rainer Papers, 2006.M.24, box 31.b, folder 20. 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. https://www.getty.edu/publications/scores/object-index/469/.