Yvonne Rainer was born in San Francisco in 1934. She trained as a modern dancer in New York and began to choreograph her own work in 1960. She was one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater in 1962, a movement that proved to be a vital force in modern dance in the following decades. Between 1962 and 1975 Rainer presented her choreography throughout the U.S. and Europe. In 2000 and 2001 Rainer returned to dance via commissions from the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation to choreograph work for the White Oak Dance Project, including a 35-minute piece called After Many a Summer Dies the Swan. Since 1972, Rainer has completed seven feature-length films, beginning with Lives of Performers (1972) and more recently The Man Who Envied Women (1985), Privilege (1990), and MURDER and murder (1996). Rainer has received numerous awards and fellowships for her work, including two Guggenheim Fellowships (1969, 1988), three Rockefeller Fellowships (1988, 1990, 1996), a MacArthur Fellowship (1990-95), and a Wexner Prize (1995), as well as four Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degrees. Yvonne Rainer: Work 1961-73 was published by Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and New York University Press in 1974; The Films of Yvonne Rainer, a collection of her film scripts, was published by Indiana University Press in 1989; and A Woman Who...: Essays, Interviews, Scripts was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1999. Rainer's latest choreographic work, based on Balanchine's AGON, was presented at Dance Theater Workshop, April 2006, subsequently traveling to the Getty Museum. A memoir, Feelings are Facts: A Life, was published by MIT Press in 2006.
Just Back from Los Angeles: A Portrait of Yvonne Rainer
Home Movies 1971-81
Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer
(Self)
Hand Film
Madame X - An Absolute Ruler
(Josephine de Collage)
Privilege
(Helen Caldicott)
Kristina Talking Pictures
(Kristina)
Journeys from Berlin/1971
Lives of Performers
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
(Kristina)
What Maisie Knew
Film About a Woman Who…
What Is Cinema?
(Self)
Cinématon
(N°95)
Trio A with Flags
Cinématon X
(N°95)
Salomania
Privilege
(Director)
Lives of Performers
(Director)
Film About a Woman Who…
(Director)
Hand Film
(Director)
Kristina Talking Pictures
(Director)
Journeys from Berlin/1971
(Director)
The Man Who Envied Women
(Director)
The Man Who Envied Women
(Writer)
The Man Who Envied Women
(Editor)
MURDER and murder
(Director)
MURDER and murder
(Writer)
MURDER and murder
(Producer)
MURDER and murder
(Editor)
Volleyball (Foot Film)
(Director)
Line
(Director)
Rhode Island Red
(Director)
Trio Film
(Director)
I Cannot Now Recall
(Story)
Film About a Woman Who…
(Editor)
Film About a Woman Who…
(Writer)
Lives of Performers
(Writer)
Lives of Performers
(Editor)
Kristina Talking Pictures
(Editor)
Journeys from Berlin/1971
(Editor)
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: Hybrid
(Director)
Rainer Variations
(Director)
Trio A
(Director)
Privilege
(Writer)
Privilege
(Producer)
Privilege
(Editor)