INVENTORY OF THE YVONNE RAINER PAPERS, 1933-2006, bulk 1959-2001

Series I. Notebooks, appointment and address books, 1949-2004

Physical Description: 3.0 linear feet

General Physical Description note: (7 boxes)

Scope and Content Note

Notebooks, some of which include inserted pages, record Rainer's thoughts, notes on events, quotations from readings, choreography, drawings, dreams, and scores for dances. In most cases Rainer provided the dates of the notebooks and they are arranged chronologically. Appointment books offer a record of events, meetings, and travel.

Box 1-3

Notebooks, 1949-2004

Box 1, Folder 1

1949-1952

Physical Description: 2.0 items

Scope and Content Note

A diary and abook of quotations that include dance drawings.

Box 1, Folder 2

Circa 1960-1962

Scope and Content Note

Includes drawing for Watering Place; transcription of Spencer Holst's text "On Evil," used for Terrain. Watering Place was only performed in Robert Dunn's Workshop and Merce Cunningham's Studio 1960. Includes separate handwritten account of dance improvisation sessions with Rainer, Nancy [Mechan ?] and Simone [Forti], removed from wire-bound notebook dated 1960 May 23.

Box 1, Folder 3-4

1961-1962

Scope and Content Note

Includes descriptions of movements by Rainer of two dances by James Waring.

Box 1, Folder 5

Circa 1963

Scope and Content Note

Includes We Shall Run and parts of Terrain, Ball.

Box 1, Folder 6

1963-1965

Box 1, Folder 7

1963-1974

Box 1, Folder 8

Circa 1965

Scope and Content Note

Includes Parts of Some Sextets; transcribed excerpts from William Bentley's Diaries.

Box 1, Folder 9

1965-1966

Box 1, Folder 10

1966-1968

Scope and Content Note

Notes and scores for The Mind is a Muscle. Includes loose sheets with notes for The Mind is a Muscle, Trio A, and Trio B.

Box 1, Folder 11

Circa 1968

Box 1, Folder 12

1969

Scope and Content Note

Includes Rose Fractions; Performance Fraction for the West Coast.

Box 1, Folder 13

1970-1972

Box 2, Folder 1

1971

Scope and Content Note

India journal.

Box 2, Folder 2

1971-1972

Box 2, Folder 3

1972-1975

Box 2, Folder 4

1973-1975

Box 2, Folder 5

1974-1976

Box 2, Folder 6

1977

Box 2, Folder 7

1977-1993

Scope and Content Note

Includes a separate sheet with description of a dream.

Box 2, Folder 8

1978

Box 2, Folder 9

1978-1979

Box 3, Folder 1

1981-1983

Box 3, Folder 2

1983-1987

Scope and Content Note

Includes a separate sheet with description of a dream.

Box 3, Folder 3

1986-1989

Box 3, Folder 4

1989-1991

Box 3, Folder 5

1993-1999

Box 3, Folder 6

1999-2004

Box 3, Folder 7

2000

Box 4-6

Appointments books, 1970-2004

Scope and Content Note

Includes books and loose pages that have separated from their notebook covers. Material spans the years 1970-2004, but does not include 1975, 1976, 1978 or 2001.

Box 4, Folder 1

1970

Box 4, Folder 2

1971

Box 4, Folder 3

1972

Box 4, Folder 4

1973

Box 4, Folder 5

1974

Box 4, Folder 6

1977

Box 4, Folder 7

1979-1980

Box 4, Folder 8

1980-1981

Box 4, Folder 9

1982-1983

Box 4, Folder 10

1983-1984

Box 5, Folder 1

1984-1985

Box 5, Folder 2

1985-1986

Box 5, Folder 3

1986-1987

Box 5, Folder 4

1987-1988

Box 5, Folder 5

1988-1989

Box 5, Folder 6

1989-1990

Box 5, Folder 7

1990

Box 5, Folder 8

1991

Box 5, Folder 9

1992

Box 5, Folder 10

1993

Box 6, Folder 1

1994

Box 6, Folder 2

1995

Box 6, Folder 3

1996

Box 6, Folder 4

1997

Box 6, Folder 5

1998

Box 6, Folder 6

1999

Box 6, Folder 7

2000

Box 6, Folder 8

2002

Box 6, Folder 9

2003

Box 6, Folder 10

2004

Box 6-7

Addresses, undated

Box 6, Folder 11

Address books

Box 7

Addresses on index cards

Scope and Content Note

Also includes business cards.

Series II. Correspondence, 1953-2005

Physical Description: 9.0 linear feet

General Physical Description note: (18 boxes, 1 flat file folder)

Scope and Content Note

This series is comprised primarily of letters received by Rainer, but it also includes copies of some letters she sent, as well as original letters to her brother Ivan, which are among the earliest in the series. Correspondents include fellow artists, family, friends, people arranging for Rainer to speak at events, and people responding to, or inquiring about her films. Letters address Rainer's dance, choreography, film making, and critical writing, among other subjects. Arranged chronologically with letters to Ivan Rainer at the beginning and undated correspondence at the end.

Box 8, 65

Letters to brother Ivan Rainer and his wife, and family photographs, 1953-1978, undated

Box 8, Folder 1

Poster, undated

Physical Description: 1.0 item

Scope and Content Note

Announces a performance by the James Waring Dance Company and lists Rainer as one of the dancers.

Box 8, Folder 2-3

Letters, clipping and ephemera, 1953-1978

Scope and Content Note

Letters, including some written while Rainer was in Berlin on a DAAD scholarship, 1976-1977; one announcement for a dance performance at Judson Hall, 1963 Feb 15; one announcement for dance performances of A Concert of Dance #3 and A Concert of Dance #4 at Judson Memorial Church, 1963 Jan 29; clipping of a review by Jill Johnston of performances of Judson Concerts #3, #4 in the Village Voice, 1963 Feb 28.

Box 65

Family photographs, undated

Physical Description: 17.0 photographs

Box 8, Folder 4

1959, 1961, 1962

Physical Description: 8.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Includes one undated item from "Ellie" about Trio A.

Box 8, Folder 5

1963

Physical Description: 13.0 items

Scope and Content Note

With a letter from Joseph Beinhorn is a draft (?) of a response from Rainer, two pages of which are written on the back of a poster for a sculpture exhibition, Boxing match: 4 sculptors Arakawa, Ay-O, Morris, Yoshimura, at Gordon's Fifth Avenue Gallery Feb 27 - Mar 24.

Box 8, Folder 6

1964

Physical Description: 35.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Some correspondence is addressed to "Bob" [Robert Morris]. Includes letter typed on back of poster announcement of performance by the Dancers Workshop Company Nov 10, San Francisco State College. Includes one letter from Trisha Brown.

Box 8, Folder 7

1965

Physical Description: 37.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Includes one letter addressed to "Bob" [Robert Morris].

Box 8, Folder 8-9

1966

Physical Description: 51.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Includes one letter from Merce Cunningham. Get well letters (serious complications from an appendectomy required further surgery). Letter from "Ann" written on back of announcement for a dance performance by The Dancers Workshop, 1966 Nov 4.

Box 8, Folder 10-14

1967

Physical Description: 77.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Includes five letters from Robert Morris.

Box 8, Folder 15-16

1968

Physical Description: 38.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Includes two letters addressed to Robert Morris and Rainer, and three letters to Morris from Rainer.

Box 9, 133*

1969

Physical Description: 25.0 items

Box 9, Folder 1-3

Letters

Physical Description: 24.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Includes an exchange of letters with Robert Morris.

Box 133*, Folder 11

Building plan of Studio Theatre and the University of Illinois

Physical Description: 1.0 item

Box 9, Folder 4

1970

Physical Description: 15.0 items

Box 9, Folder 5-8

1971

Physical Description: 34.0 items

Box 9, 95

1972

Physical Description: 47.0 items

Box 9, Folder 9-12

Letters,

Physical Description: 46.0 items

Box 95

Transparency of Rainer's niece,

Scope and Content Note

From Apr 8 letter.

Box 9, Folder 13-21

1973

Physical Description: 105.0 items

Box 10, Folder 1-13

1974

Physical Description: 139.0 items

Box 10, Folder 14

Correspondence with Benjamin Buchloh, 1974-1975

Physical Description: 34.0 items

Scope and Content Note

31 letters from Buchloh, three from Rainer.

Box 10-11

1975

Physical Description: 145.0 items

Box 10, Folder 15-19

Jan-Apr and undated

Physical Description: 50.0 items

Box 11, Folder 1-5

May-Dec

Physical Description: 95.0 items

Box 11, Folder 6-16

1976

Physical Description: 177.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Includes a letter from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) stating that the Berliner Künstlerprogramm has recommended offering Rainer a "working stay" in West Berlin for 1976. (Rainer was in Berlin from Sep 1976 to Aug 1977.)

Box 12, Folder 1-9

1977

Physical Description: 176.0 items

Box 12, Folder 10-17

1978

Physical Description: 117.0 items

Box 13, Folder 1-12

1979

Physical Description: 136.0 items

Box 13, Folder 13-21

1980

Physical Description: 118.0 items

Box 13-14

1981

Physical Description: 104.0 items

Box 13, Folder 22-23

Jan-Feb and undated

Physical Description: 28.0 items

Box 14, Folder 1-6

Mar-Dec

Physical Description: 76.0 items

Box 14, Folder 7-13

1982

Physical Description: 108.0 items

Box 14, Folder 14-20

1983

Physical Description: 72.0 items

Box 15, Folder 1-7

1984

Physical Description: 74.0 items

Box 15, Folder 8-14

1985

Physical Description: 59.0 items

Box 15, Folder 15-21

1986

Physical Description: 78.0 items

Box 15-16

1987

Physical Description: 94.0 items

Box 15, Folder 22-24

Jan-Jun and undated

Physical Description: 16.0 items

Box 16, Folder 1-4

Jul-Dec

Physical Description: 16.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Includes letter from Trisha [Brown].

Box 16, Folder 5-11

1988

Physical Description: 81.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Includes a poster for a week-long event at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, called "Contemporary Art in Context," for which Rainer gave a gallery talk.

Box 16, Folder 12-18

1989

Physical Description: 68.0 items

Box 16-17, 100

1990

Physical Description: 118.0 items

Box 16, Folder 19

Undated from 1990

Physical Description: 9.0 items

Box 17, Folder 1-10

Jan-Dec

Physical Description: 109.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Includes a letter from Trisha [Brown]; photocopy of program for The Mind is a Muscle, at the Anderson Theater, 1968 Apr 11, 14, 15; and several letters and cards with congratulations to Rainer on her appointment as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.

Box 17, 100

Australia visit, 1990

Physical Description: 16.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Rainer visited Australia from Jul 28 to Aug 24.

Box 17, Folder 11-12

Correspondence and printed matter

Box 100, Item C23

Sound cassette

Scope and Content Note

One sound cassette from Nicola, of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (perhaps a recording of a talk that Rainer gave?).

Box 18, Folder 1-8

1991

Physical Description: 116.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Includes a letter from T. [Trisha Brown?]

Box 18, Folder 9-14

1992

Physical Description: 61.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Includes a letter from Trisha [Brown] thanking Rainer for her donation to Trisha's dance company and transcript of interview of Rainer by Nicholas Zurbrugg, 18 pages; see also Box 149, folder 14.

Box 18, Folder 15-20

1993

Physical Description: 80.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Includes a letter from Trisha Brown.

Box 19, Folder 1-7

1994

Physical Description: 68.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Includes a letter from Trisha Brown thanking Rainer for her donation to a benefit.

Box 19, Folder 8-16

1995

Physical Description: 77.0 items

Box 19, Folder 17-23

1996

Physical Description: 52.0 items

Box 20, Folder 1-8

1997

Physical Description: 90.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Includes a letter from Trisha Brown (Oct).

Box 20, Folder 9-15

1998

Physical Description: 75.0 items

Box 20, Folder 16-19

1999

Physical Description: 53.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Includes a card from Yoko Ono, and a letter from Rainer to Misha [Mikhail Baryshnikiv] accepting his invitation to choreograph a dance for his White Oak Dance Project.

Box 21, Folder 1-4

2000

Physical Description: 50.0 items

Box 21, Folder 5-6

2001

Physical Description: 27.0 items

Box 21, Folder 7-8

2002

Physical Description: 16.0 items

Box 21, Folder 9-10

2003

Physical Description: 17.0 items

Box 21, Folder 11-12

2004

Physical Description: 20.0 items

Box 21, Folder 13

2005

Physical Description: 1.0 item

Flatfile 6**

Undated

Scope and Content Note

Poster reproduction of a drawing by Fred Troller, given to Rainer as a Christmas card by Fred and Beatrice Troller.

Series III. Works, 1960-2005

Physical Description: 6.0 linear feet

General Physical Description note: (14 boxes, 2 flat file folders)

Scope and Content Note

Arranged in three subseries, this series contains: files relating to Rainer's dance, performance, and film works; scores and scripts by Rainer and others; and writings by Rainer in manuscript and published form.

Photographs that document Rainer's work and performance, including her films, are filed in Series VII. Additional programs and reviews for these events, and programs for the events of other dancers and performers, especially at Judson Church, can be found in Series V. Audiovisual documentation of Rainer's work is in series VIII.

Some folders include notes by Rainer that briefly describe items loaned to Sally Banes for research and never returned to the files. The current whereabouts of these items is unknown.

Subseries III.A. Dance, performance and film, 1960-2005

Physical Description: 4.0 linear feet

General Physical Description note: (13 boxes, 2 flat file folders)

Scope and Content Note

Files are arranged chronologically, with some exceptions. The subseries begins with Rainer's comprehensive resume. Dance files include dance scores, drawings, descriptions of dances and choreography, notes, directions for performers, programs and fliers, information for programs, and reviews. Files on Rainer's films include scripts, shooting notes, production notes and notebooks, production schedules, production stills, accounting sheets, budgets and files on distribution and sales.

Box 21, Folder 14

Résumé

Box 21, Folder 14

Watering Place score, circa 1960

Physical Description: 4.0 page(s)

Scope and Content Note

Orange crayon, pencil and ink on unlined paper with rounded corners. At the top of each page: "Instructions for..." and the name of each dancer: Steve, Ruth, Marnie, Paul. According to Rainer, Watering Place was never performed outside of Robert Dunn's workshop (Merce Cunningham's studio, New York City).

Box 21, Folder 15

Three Satie Spoons, copy of score, 1961

Scope and Content Note

Colored crayon on paper with handwritten description by Rainer in pencil on the reverse. Rainer's first choreographed solo.

Box 21, Folder 16

Ordinary Dance, score and monologue, 1961-1962

Scope and Content Note

Score, pencil and ink on paper.

Box 21, Folder 17-19

Terrain, 1963-1965

Scope and Content Note

Scores, typed and handwritten; Spencer Holst, On the Truth, and On Evil, in handwritten and typed form; programs; reviews; posters and flyers. Poster designed by Robert Rauschenberg.

Box 21, Folder 17-18

Scores and notes, 1963

Scope and Content Note

Typed and handwritten for various sections: "Bach," "Holst Solos," "Diagonal Section," and other directions for dances and notes.

Box 21, Folder 19

Programs and reviews, 1963-1965

Scope and Content Note

Programs, announcements for various performances; 1963 review by Jill Johnston; poster: An Evening of Dance, designed by Robert Rauschenberg; also, program for The Dance at Judson Hall, 1963 Feb 15, Ten performances, which do not include Terrain.

Box 21, Folder 20

Dialogues, 1964

Scope and Content Note

Two versions of a script, one in manuscript and the other typescript (and carbon copy and photocopy). Four pages of notes with sections: "with Cindy," "Cindy," "Weights and Measures," and "with Judy."

Box 21, Folder 21

Parts of Some Sextets, 1965

Scope and Content Note

Score; notes; program with annotations; photocopy captioned: "two stories from a forty-five minute tape taken from the Diary of William Bently, used as a sound track for Parts of Some Sextets."

Box 21-22

Carriage Discreteness, 1966, 1998

Scope and Content Note

Performed as part of 9 Evenings: Theater and Engineering, produced by Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) at the 69th Regiment Armory, New York City, 1966 Oct 15.

Box 21, Folder 22-23

Typed description and other materials, 1966

Scope and Content Note

Typed description of Carriage Discreteness, list of objects for the piece. Also includes a review of a performance, and information about the piece by Per Biorn, a performance engineer.

Box 21, Folder 24

9 Evenings: Theater and Engineering, 69th Regiment Armory, New York, 1966

Scope and Content Note

Press releases, reviews of 9 evenings events. Also includes materials titled "Projects for Stockholm Festival."

Box 22, Folder 1

Documentation provided by Julie Martin, 1966, 1968

Scope and Content Note

Documentation of Rainer's piece Carriage Discreteness sent to Rainer by Julie Martin with a letter, 1998. Photocopied documentation of 9 Evenings event produced by E.A.T.

Box 22, Folder 2, 4-5

The Mind is a Muscle, 1966-1968

Scope and Content Note

Programs, reviews, letters, sample of silver material. Includes programs for Brandeis and Spoleto performances. Also includes annotated paste-up program for performance at Anderson Theater, April 1968.

Box 22, Folder 6-9

Trio A, 1966, 1997, 2001, 2005

Box 22, Folder 6

"Dance Talking: Trio A", 1966

Scope and Content Note

Text of lecture with note that it was for publication in 0 to 9 magazine; notes, clipping of an essay by Vladimir Nabokov (from New York Times Book Review).

Box 22, Folder 7

Letter from Pat Catterson, 1997

Box 22, Folder 8

London International Summer School, 2005

Scope and Content Note

Printed text; Rainer taught Trio A at the summer school.

Box 22, Folder 9

Greg Catellier, 2001

Scope and Content Note

Letters from Catellier, who learned and performed Trio A.

Box 22, Folder 3

Trio B scores, 1968

Scope and Content Note

Two drawings, pencil on graph paper: Trio B Second Part, and Trio B running. Performed Anderson Theater, New York City.

Box 22, Folder 10

Performance Demonstration, 1968

Scope and Content Note

Some materials in this folder (including negatives) were originally in a folder with a note from Rainer that said, "Performance Demonstration - maybe?" Black-and-white negatives are in Box 94.

Box 22, Folder 11

Connecticut Composite, 1969

Scope and Content Note

Typed description, scores, programs. Performed at Connecticut College, New London, CT. Connecticut Composite included an early version of Continuous Project Altered Daily.

Box 22, Folder 12-13

Rose Fractions, 1969

Box 22, Folder 12

Billy Rose Theater, New York

Box 22, Folder 13

Program information, scores and programs, and correspondence

Scope and Content Note

Includes letter from Carl Andre written on graph paper about the performance.

Box 22, 133*

Continuous Project, Altered Daily, 1969-1970, 1998

Box 22, Folder 14

Programs, contracts, flyers for performances, 1969-1970

Box 22, Folder 15

Handwritten notes and directions for performances, letters, 1969-1970

Box 22, Folder 16

Copies of score, texts, 1969-1970

Scope and Content Note

Apparently scores used in Connecticut Composite, then reused for Continuous Project, Altered Daily. These papers were in a folder that was labeled "from Continuous Project, shown at MOCA [Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles]."

Box 22, Folder 17

Laban notation score, 1998

Box 133*, Folder 12

Scores for CP-AD "Chunks and Insertables"

Scope and Content Note

Three hand-written copies/versions on graph paper.

Box 133*, Folder 12

Oversize clipping

Scope and Content Note

From the New York Review of Books, part of an article about People's Park.

Box 22, Folder 18

War, 1970

Scope and Content Note

Scores, other texts. War re-used parts of Continuous Project-Altered Daily and was performed by Grand Union.

Box 22-23

Grand Union, 1970-1972

Scope and Content Note

Programs, brochures. See also files on Touring.

Box 22, Folder 19

New York University, 1970

Scope and Content Note

Grand Union and War. Description of piece and contract with New York University.

Box 22, Folder 20

Grand Union Dreams, 1970-1971

Scope and Content Note

Scores and programs. Also in Box 23, folder 1.

Box 23, Folder 2

Handwritten dreams of Grand Union dancers (?), Circa 1971

Box 23, Folder 3

Programs, fliers, and public relations material, 1970

Box 23, Folder 4

Biographies of dancers, 1970-1971

Scope and Content Note

Typed and handwritten - Grand Union dancers?

Box 23, Folder 5

Correspondence, 1970-1972

Scope and Content Note

Some letters relate to the incorporation of Grand Union, others to tours and performances. See also files in Series V for more information about Grand Union performances at various venues.

Box 23, Folder 6

Performance, 1972

Scope and Content Note

Script, etc. Includes Instructions for Story section from Lives of Performers, first performed in Performance, Hofstra University and the Whitney Museum.

Box 23, 96

Lives of Performers, 1972, undated

Scope and Content Note

Material also in flat-file 7**.

Box 23, Folder 7

Working script, draft pages, 1972

Scope and Content Note

Handwritten on yellow, lined paper. Lives of Performers is Rainer's first full-length film, and includes actual footage from the rehearsal of one of Rainer's pieces, Walk, She Said.

Box 23, Folder 8

Original script and related pages, 1972

Box 23, Folder 9

Wall text, 1972

Scope and Content Note

Text is on index cards. Corresponding black-and-white slides, :identified as "Slides for Brenda" described in "slides" section below.

Box 23, Folder 10

Script, 1972

Scope and Content Note

Two copies of typescript.

Box 23, Folder 11

Distribution, 1972

Scope and Content Note

Letters and receipts regarding distribution and sales, plus one sheet of corrections to be made to future copies of the video/film.

Box 23, Folder 12

Pandora's Box (Lulu), G.W. Pabst, 1972

Scope and Content Note

Paperback copy of book, with film stills cut out and loose. Source for Lives of Performers. Also used to illustrate Work, 1961-1973.

Flatfile 7**

Louise Brooks, Delta Productions, Montpellier, France, undated

Box 96

Slides, 1972

Box 96

Text slides for ocean, English

Physical Description: 31.0 slides

Scope and Content Note

Duplicates.

Box 96

French text, tray 1

Physical Description: 33.0 slides

Scope and Content Note

Up to "she starts to leave...".

Box 96

Text slides for ocean, French

Physical Description: 30.0 slides

Scope and Content Note

Duplicates.

Box 96

French text, tray 1 (end), tray 2

Physical Description: 15.0 slides

Box 96

English and French text

Physical Description: 27.0 slides

Scope and Content Note

Duplicates.

Box 96

Slides for Brenda

Physical Description: 9.0 slides

Box 23, Folder 13

In the College, 1972

Scope and Content Note

Notes and typed "Narrative suggestions." Piece created at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio and performed 1972 Jan.

Box 23, Folder 14

Photo Romanza, 1972

Scope and Content Note

Black-and-white photographs and notes for the poster designed by Rainer. See also Box 24, folder 8, Kristina (For a....Opera) published in Interfunktionen, 1975, edited by Benjamin Buchloh, photographs by Babette Mangolte. Material also in Flat-file 8**.

Box 23, Folder 14

Photographs and notes

Flatfile 8**

Oversize

Box 23, Folder 15

Sentimentale, 1972

Scope and Content Note

Magazine that served as a model for Rainer's Photo Romanza, purchased when she was in Italy.

Box 30, 137*

Inner Appearances, 1972 (?)

Box 30, Folder 1-2

Wall texts

Box 137*

Inner Appearances props

Scope and Content Note

Items used for performance: sun visor, toy gun, wrapped package, etc.

Box 23, Folder 16

This is the Story of a Woman and Man Who..., 1973

Scope and Content Note

Script.

Box 23-24

This is the Story of a Woman Who..., 1973

Box 23, Folder 17-18

Scripts

Scope and Content Note

Parts of the script, outline of sections, including Inner Appearances, Shirley's Dream and Grand Union Dreams pieces (for performance at Whitney? Theater for the New City?), plus flyers/programs for these two venues. Also includes part of a script, photographs, flyers, letter from "Steve," lighting and sound cues.

Box 24, Folder 1

Wall projections

Scope and Content Note

Texts for wall projections, index cards with text, "Instructions for the performance of Inner Appearances," which was incorporated into This is the Story...

Box 24, Folder 2

Annotated photographs

Scope and Content Note

With mailing list, flyers, images of Rainer and train (from newspaper), and two posters: 5 Evenings (Boston) and questa e la storia di una donna che... (Rome).

Box 24, Folder 3-7

Film About a Woman Who..., circa 1974

Box 24, Folder 3-4

Script

Box 24, Folder 5

Titles

Box 24, Folder 6-7

Notebooks

Scope and Content Note

Two notebooks with shooting notes.

Box 24, Folder 8-9

"Kristina (For a...Opera)," 1975

Box 24, Folder 8

Interfunktionen, no. 12

Box 24, Folder 9

Collected images

Scope and Content Note

Photographs, images clipped from publications used for the publication "Kristina (For a...Opera)" in Interfunktionen, 1975.

Box 25, Folder 1-8

Kristina Talking Pictures, 1976, 1978

Box 25, Folder 1

Script, first draft, 1976

Scope and Content Note

Handwritten and typed pages.

Box 25, Folder 2

Shooting notes, 1976

Box 25, Folder 3

Sixty-two index cards, 1976

Box 25, Folder 4

Script, notebook with shooting notes, 1976

Scope and Content Note

Script is partial.

Box 25, Folder 5

Film strips, production stills and photographs, 1976

Box 25, Folder 6-7

Collage images, 1976

Box 25, Folder 8

Script annotated for Afterimage, 7: 37-73, 1978

Box 25-26

Journeys from Berlin / 1971, 1978-1980

Box 25, Folder 9-10

British Film Institute, 1978-1980

Scope and Content Note

Letters, budgets, contacts relating to BFI support for production costs of the film.

Box 26, Folder 1

Working notes, 1979-1980

Scope and Content Note

Extensive notes, prospectus for the film, black-and-white photographs of hand holding a stone (negatives in Box 94).

Box 26, Folder 2

Images for Journeys from Berlin/ 1971, 1979-1980

Scope and Content Note

Black-and-white photographs, postcards.

Box 26, Folder 3

Research, 1979-1980

Scope and Content Note

Clippings, articles from newspapers. See also folders on Baader Meinhof, Box 45, folders 5-7.

Box 26, Folder 4

Production notes and schedules, 1979-1980

Box 26, Folder 5-8

Scripts, 1979-1980

Box 26, Folder 9

Story of a Filmmaker Who..., 1980

Scope and Content Note

Text of lecture performance (?) and cues.

Box 26-27

The Man Who Envied Women, 1985

Box 26, Folder 10-12

Scripts, prospectus

Scope and Content Note

Three scripts, plus prospectus; budget for film (?)

Box 27, Folder 1-5

Production notebooks and budget

Scope and Content Note

Includes production schedules, cast and crew lists, notes, script, and list of shots. Includes typescript: "The Man Who Envied Women: Collage with Martha Rosler," 1984 June 23; a dialogue between Rainer and Rosler.

Box 27, Folder 6-13

Privilege, circa 1990

Box 27, Folder 6-9

Scripts

Scope and Content Note

Script in folder 8 is annotated; see also color photographs in Box 91.

Box 27, Folder 10

Production

Scope and Content Note

Notes and accounting sheets for payroll. Description of project.

Box 27, Folder 11

Carlos

Scope and Content Note

Photocopied articles and notes related to background of this character.

Box 27, Folder 12

Rights

Scope and Content Note

Mostly relating to music.

Box 27, Folder 13

Distribution

Box 28-29

MURDER and murder, 1996-1997

Box 28, Folder 1-5

Scripts

Scope and Content Note

Includes three scripts and one annotated shooting script.

Box 28, Folder 6

Shooting notes and scene break-downs

Box 28, Folder 7

Budgets

Box 28, Folder 8

Credits

Box 28, Folder 10

Distribution

Box 29, Folder 1-4

Film festivals,

Box 29, Folder 5

Lesbians and cancer

Scope and Content Note

Information for distribution of film.

Box 29, Folder 6

30 anos de dança

Box 29, Folder 7

Letter from Barbara Haas regarding role of Doris

Scope and Content Note

Color photographs in Box 149.

Box 29, Folder 8

Mailing lists and phone numbers

Box 29, Folder 9

Music

Box 29, Folder 10

Music rights

Box 29, Folder 11

Script

Scope and Content Note

Photocopy from Performance Art Journal.

Box 29, Folder 12-14

Production notebook

Box 29, Folder 12

Notebook/folder with notes attached

Scope and Content Note

See folders 13-14 for papers that were inside.

Box 29, Folder 13-14

Production papers from notebook

Scope and Content Note

Regarding production and post-production.

Box 30, Folder 3-5

After the Summer Dies the Swan, 2000-2002

Box 30, Folder 3

Carl Schorske, Vienna Fin de siècle, annotated copy

Scope and Content Note

Rainer's source for After the Summer Dies the Swaan.

Box 30, Folder 4

Notes and images

Box 30, Folder 5

After the Summer Dies the Swan - Hybrid

Scope and Content Note

Typed and annotated working script, photocopies of photographs and texts for video.

Box 30, Folder 6

Unidentified and undated materials for works, undated

Scope and Content Note

Two newspaper clippings titled "Child Hood" and "Adult Hood;" one clipping of sites in Egypt; one typescript page for a slide, beginning "I am tired of your cunning and docility..."

Subseries III.B. Scores and scripts, circa 1960-1962

Physical Description: 0.2 linear feet

General Physical Description note: (1 box)

Scope and Content Note

This subseries consists primarily of scores related to Rainer's dance work from early 1960s, but also includes scripts by others that may have been for the New York Poets Theater.

Box 30, Folder 7

Philip Corner music scores

Scope and Content Note

Three handwritten scores:" Joyous Flashes" [composed in 1958], "Passionate Expanse of the Law" [composed while Corner was with the Judson Dance Theater between 1962 and 1964], and one untitled sheet [part of "Passionate Expanse"?].

Box 30, Folder 8

Eric Satie 3 Gymnopedias

Scope and Content Note

Used by Rainer for Three Satie Spoons.

Box 30, Folder 9

Dance scores

Scope and Content Note

Photocopied floor plan and "people plan" [ Connecticut Composite]; crayon drawing of multiple colored lines [see similar drawing in notebook]; note regarding items borrowed by Sally Banes.

Box 30, Folder 10

Dance scores in notebook, circa 1962

Box 30, Folder 11

Dance scores for Blam Blam Blam, Dialogues, 1962

Box 30, Folder 12

"Duet with Darius," 1962

Scope and Content Note

Written in pencil on the back of a poster for James Rosenquist.

Box 30, Folder 13

Two unidentified dance scores

Scope and Content Note

Handwritten on yellow note paper: "New stills."

Box 30, Folder 14

Scripts by others

Scope and Content Note

For New York Poets Theater?

Box 30, Box-folder 14

Tropismus, Sorrenti (?)

Box 30, Folder 14

Faust Foutu, Robert Duncan

Box 30, Folder 14

A Scene by John Wieners

Box 30, Folder 14

Our First Gobi Fossils, Larry Loonin

Box 30, Folder 14

Calling: A Happening for performers only, Allan Kaprow

Box 30, Folder 14

[Three scenes written as letters (?)], Al Mazza, Jr.

Box 30, Folder 14

What Happened, Gertrude Stein

Box 30, Folder 14

Shopping and Waiting: a dramatic pause, James Schuyler

Subseries III.C. Rainer writings and publications, 1963-2005

Physical Description: 1.5 linear feet

General Physical Description note: (4 boxes)

Scope and Content Note

This subseries contains Yvonne Rainer's writings in manuscript and published form, including handwritten notes. Arranged chronologically with undated materials at the end.

Box 31, Folder 1

"Some thoughts on improvisation (for painter James Byars)," 1963

Scope and Content Note

One handwritten, one typed manuscript.

Box 31, Folder 2

"Sleeping," 1964

Scope and Content Note

Two pages handwritten text (one sheet) untitled with first line "I want to make a dance about sleeping." With published copy in ICA Bulletin, Dec 1965.

Box 31, Folder 3

"Dwarf syndrome," 1965

Scope and Content Note

One-page typed manuscript, a statement about dance dated 1965 Oct 3.

Box 31, Folder 4

"Rreeppeettiittiioonn iinn mmyy wwoorrkk," circa 1965

Scope and Content Note

Three typed and one handwritten manuscripts.

Box 31, Folder 5

"Some retrospective notes on a dance for 10 people...," post 1965

Scope and Content Note

One handwritten and two typed manuscripts, with photocopy of published work in Tulane Drama Review.

Box 31, Folder 6

Lecture on movement, 1966

Scope and Content Note

One typed and one handwritten manuscript and notes on four index cards. See also Rainer's 1965-1966 notebook for an earlier version of this text.

Box 31, Folder 7

"Quasi survey of some minimalist tendencies...," undated

Scope and Content Note

Typed manuscript, and printed pages from Gregory Battcock's book, Minimalism, where it was published.

Box 31, Folder 8

"Account of my career," circa 1966

Scope and Content Note

Essay for grant application? With list of performances and statement of purpose.

Box 31, Folder 9

"Notes on Two Dances by Deborah Hay," 1967

Scope and Content Note

In Ikon, February, 1967: 2-3. One issue of the Journal.

Box 31, Folder 10

"Don't Give the Game Away," 1967

Scope and Content Note

Manuscript, typed and untitled; photocopy of published article; and one issue of the journal Arts Magazine, April, 1967: 44-47.

Box 31, Folder 12

Jill Johnston, 1969

Scope and Content Note

Untitled typed manuscript about Johnston, three pages.

Box 31, Folder 13

"Statement about muh moovies for Annette Michelson," circa 1972?

Scope and Content Note

Found in a folder with material about Lives of Performers.

Box 31, Folder 14

"From an Indian journal," 1970

Scope and Content Note

Handwritten loose notebook pages from Rainer's trip to India funded by E.A.T. With photocopy of published version in Drama Review, 15 (T-50, Spring 1971): 132-138. See also Rainer's notebooks for her India journal, Box 2, folder 1.

Box 31, Folder 15

"Dancing Ladies," 1972

Scope and Content Note

Statement about title of dance performance series arranged by James Waring, "Dancing Ladies."

Box 31, Folder 16

Writings, 1972

Scope and Content Note

Two untitled texts, typed, one page each. One on literary sources of Rainer's work, the other about performing and movement.

Box 31, Folder 17

"Parts of some sextets," post 1974

Scope and Content Note

Typed essay about this piece, with annotations. With photocopied photographs by Peter Moore.

Box 31, Folder 18

"Film about a Woman Who...," (script) Summer 1976

Scope and Content Note

In October, 2. Two issues of the journal.

Box 31, Folder 19

"A Likely Story," 1976

Scope and Content Note

Four copies. Paper delivered 1976 Sep 3 as part of the International Forum on Avant-Garde Film, Edinburgh Film Festival [A paper with the same title was published in Idiolects, 6 (June 1978)].

Box 31, Folder 20-21

"Annotated selections from the filmscript of 'Kristina Talking Pictures,'" Spring 1977

Scope and Content Note

In No Rose, 1, no. 3. Four issues of the journal.

Box 31, Folder 22

"Introduction to the second edition," 1979

Scope and Content Note

For Works, 1963-71. Two copies.

Box 31, Folder 23

"Backwater: Twosome / Paxton and Moss," 1979

Box 31, Folder 24

"Beginning with Some Advertisements for Criticisms of Myself, or, Drawing the Dog You May Want To Use To Bite Me With, and Then Going On To Other Matters," 1980

Scope and Content Note

In Millennium Film Journal, 6 (Spring 1980): 5-7. One issue of the journal.

Box 31, Folder 25

Texts about Journeys from Berlin / 1971, CIRCA 1980

Scope and Content Note

Five typed manuscripts, one of which is a Letter to the Editor.

Box 31, Folder 26

"Incomplete report of the first week of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, August 17-30, 1980, and Musings on Several Other Films," Winter 1980 / 1981

Scope and Content Note

In Idiolects, 9-10: 2-6. One issue of the Journal.

Box 31, Folder 27

"Looking Myself in the Mouth," 1981

Scope and Content Note

16 pages typed and annotated, with some tape. First published in October, no. 17 (Summer 1981): 8-12. Two photocopies of article, one with handwritten notes.

Box 31a, Folder 1

"More Screaming and Kicking from the Narrative Front / Backwater," 1982

Box 31a, Folder 2

"Trisha Brown: engineering calamity," 1985

Scope and Content Note

Clipping of article by Rainer, published in the Voice September 17, 1985.

Box 31a, Folder 3

"Rainer on Rappaport," 1985

Scope and Content Note

Typed manuscript and published article in NY Talk, November 1985. About filmmaker Mark Rappaport.

Box 31a, Folder 4

Texts about The Man Who Envied Women, circa 1985

Scope and Content Note

Four manuscripts: Interview with Rainer, Minneapolis, 1985 Sep 8, Bill Horrigan, Valerie Ellis, Helen DeMichiel; plus three texts by Rainer, typed with annotations.

Box 31a, Folder 5

"What's wrong with Ross MacElwee's 'Sherman's March,'" 1986

Scope and Content Note

two typed pages.

Box 31a, Folder 6

"Some ruminations around cinematic antidotes to the Oedipal net(les) while playing with De Lauraedipus Mulvey, or, he may be off screen, but...," 1986

Scope and Content Note

In Independent Film and Video Monthly, 9, no. 3 (April 1986): 22-25. Clipping of article and three issues of the journal.

Box 31a, Folder 7

"Thoughts on Women's Cinema: Eating Words, Voicing Struggles," 1987

Scope and Content Note

Clipping of article by Rainer, published in Independent Film and Video Monthly, 10, no. 3 (April 1987) and four issues of the journal.

Box 31a, Folder 8

1987-1988 "The Man Who Envied Women" - script, 1987-1988

Scope and Content Note

In Women and Performance, 3, no. 2, #6 (1987-1988): 103-160.

Box 31a, Folder 9

"Responses to Coco Fusco's 'Fantasies of Oppositionality,'" 1989

Scope and Content Note

In Screen, 30, no. 3 (Summer 1989): 91-98.

Box 31a, Folder 10

"Tea for Two," 1980

Scope and Content Note

Rainer (with Simone Forti), in Contact Quarterly, 15, no. 2 (Spring/Summer 1990): 27-31. Journal issue and typescript of the article.

Box 31a, Folder 11

"Work of art in the (imagined) age of unalienated exhibition," 1990

Scope and Content Note

Typescript of article by Rainer, published in Discussions in Contemporary Culture: Democracy, a project by group material, 1990, and issue of the journal.

Box 31a, Folder 12

[Unititled] "Shirley is gone," post 1980

Scope and Content Note

Six-page typed remembrance.

Box 31b, Folder 1

"Privilegien und Risiken, Ein Interview mit Kurt Eastwood, Susanne Fairfax und Laura Poitras," 1991

Scope and Content Note

In Frauen und Film, June 1991. Two issues of the journal.

Box 31b, Folder 2

"Narrative in the (dis) service of identity...," 1991

Scope and Content Note

Three copies of typed manuscript, photocopy of published article in Review of Japanese Culture and society, December 1991, and issue of the journal.

Box 31b, Folder 3

"Working Around the 'L' Word," 1991

Scope and Content Note

Two versions of a talk delivered at DCTV 1991 Oct 13, "Lookout: Lesbian and Gay Television Festival."

Box 31b, Folder 4

"Preface: The Work of Art in the (Imagined) Age of Unalienated Exhibition," 1991

Scope and Content Note

Discussions in Contemporary Culture: If You Lived Here, The City in Art, Theory and Social Activism, 1991.

Box 31b, Folder 5

Letter to Artforum, September, 1993

Scope and Content Note

About Lizzie Borden's piece on Trisha Brown and Rainer.

Box 31b, Folder 6

Letter to October, Winter 1995

Scope and Content Note

October, 71, "Feminist issues" (Winter 1995).

Box 31b, Folder 7

"The End of More Than a Century," 1996

Scope and Content Note

Written for X-Factor, faxed 27 August 1996.

Box 31b, Folder 8

Article about Robert Dunn, 1996

Scope and Content Note

In Movement Research, Performance Journal, 14 (Spring 1977). The issue commemorates the legacy of Robert Ellis Dunn.

Box 31b, Folder 9

"MURDER and murder" - script, 1997

Scope and Content Note

In Performing Arts Journal, 55 (1997): 76-117.

Box 31b, Folder 10

"Pedagogical Vaudeville 3," 2001

Scope and Content Note

In PAJ, no. 67 (January 2001): 48-61. Two copies of the journal.

Box 31b, Folder 11

" Trio A: Genealogy, Documentation, Notation," 2005

Scope and Content Note

In Dance Theatre Journal, 20, no. 4 (2005).

Box 31b, Folder 12

"Reflections and dogmas of a dogged dog," undated

Scope and Content Note

Text, largely about chance, written in ink on large sheets of colored construction paper.

Box 31b, Folder 13

"Film and performance," undated

Scope and Content Note

Photocopy of published text, multiple copies.

Box 31b, Folder 14

[Untitled], undated

Scope and Content Note

Undated. Typed questions on yellow notepaper, with annotations.

Box 31b, Folder 15

Text about hospital and cancer, undated

Scope and Content Note

Untitled handwritten manuscript, three pages.

Box 31b, Folder 16

Four manuscripts, undated

Scope and Content Note

"Talking" (one handwritten page); "An Apology" (two handwritten pages); two typed pages about a duet later incorporated into a dance for 10 people and 12 mattresses; a dialogue (two handwritten pages of four), the first line of which is "It is so lovely to have changing."

Box 31b, Folder 17

Five manuscripts, undated

Scope and Content Note

"V-O dreams" (one typed page); "Food memories in the morning" (one typed page); "A List of shameful conditions and occurrences" (one typed page); untitled one-page typed manuscript, the first line of which is, "He thinks he is getting away with something"; untitled one-page typed manuscript, the first line of which is, "My father used to tell this awful joke...."

Box 31b, Folder 18

Seven manuscripts, undated

Scope and Content Note

One typed page of quotes; "Keening for women" (one handwritten page); "Reverie" (two handwritten pages about quality of photography in Rainer's films); Two handwritten pages about Rainer's aesthetic of time; One handwritten page of a sequence of actions (a dance or an exercise?); two typed and handwritten pages about the artist and social responsibility; "Coordinates of speech and image" (two handwritten pages about film clichés); two handwritten pages about a diner and short order cook (relates to a scene in Rainer's diary).

Box 31b, Folder 19

Annotated file folder, after 1961

Scope and Content Note

Notes about dance and performance works written on folder in pencil.

Box 31b, Folder 20

Two pages of notes, undated

Box 32, Folder 1-22

Work 1961-1973, 1974

Scope and Content Note

Materials for production of the 2nd edition of Rainer's book about her work, published 1974 by the Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Includes photographs of scores and other non-photographic illustration media. Professional photographs of performances that were used in the book are in Series VII. Photography; they can be identified by the page and illustration number which are written on the back of the photograph [blue pencil].

Box 32, Folder 1

Copy of the 1st edition of Work

Scope and Content Note

Annotated by Rainer in preparation for the 2nd edition.

Box 32, Folder 2-18

Photographic materials used in the book

Box 32, Folder 2

Book jacket, front cover

Scope and Content Note

Two illustrations on the front cover.

Box 32, Folder 3

End sheets

Box 32, Folder 4

Terrain

Scope and Content Note

Page 43: score for Al's sequence.

Box 32, Folder 5

Parts of Some Sextets

Scope and Content Note

Pages 44, 52-53, and 54.

Box 32, Folder 6

The Mind is a Muscle

Scope and Content Note

Pages 92-93, 94, and 104.

Box 32, Folder 7-8

Rose Fractions

Scope and Content Note

Pages 120 and 158. Photograph considered but not used in publication (folder 8).

Box 32, Folder 9

Continuous Project - Altered Daily

Scope and Content Note

Pages 132-133.

Box 32, Folder 10

War

Scope and Content Note

Page 169.

Box 32, Folder 11

Grand Union

Scope and Content Note

Page 204.

Box 32, Folder 12

Performance

Scope and Content Note

Page 241. Photograph used for program for performance at Hofstra University, 1972 Mar 21.

Box 32, Folder 13

Lives of Performers

Scope and Content Note

Pages 235 and 236.

Box 32, Folder 14

This is the Story of a Woman Who...

Scope and Content Note

Pages 249, 254, 256, 258 and 260.

Box 32, Folder 15

We Shall Run

Scope and Content Note

Page 292.

Box 32, Folder 17

Three Satie Spoons

Scope and Content Note

Page 284.

Box 32, Folder 18

"Scrapbook" chapter

Box 32, Folder 19

Correspondence and editing

Box 32, Folder 20

Paste-ups, photographs considered but not used for the book

Box 32, Folder 21

Notes on the 2nd edition appendix

Box 32, Folder 22

Miscellaneous

Series IV. Professional and exhibition files, 1964-2006

Physical Description: 3.0 linear feet

General Physical Description note: (9 boxes)

Scope and Content Note

Files document Rainer's performance tours and residencies, beginning with her tour of Europe with Robert Morris in 1964 and 1965. A few files contain information about lecture venues and her teaching. Exhibitions of her work, dance, performance, and film, are documented in files dating circa 1975-2005. Also included are papers that document film festivals and screenings of her films. See also Series V for programs and Series IX for posters related to the events in this series.

Box 33-34

Touring, 1964-2001

Box 33, Folder 1

Cue sheets for dances, European tour (?), 1964-1965

Scope and Content Note

For: At My Body's House, Arizona [Morris piece], 3 Seascapes, Site [a Morris work], Some Thoughts on Improvisation, Part of a Sextet, "21.3", Three Satie Spoons, [Untitled Solo] Partially Improvised Solo with Bach's Toccata and Fuge, From the Solo Section, Waterman Switch [a Morris work], Mind is a Muscle.

Box 33, 132*

Europe, 1965-1967

Box 33, Folder 2

Reviews, 1965

Scope and Content Note

Reviews, publicity, notes, letters regarding Rainer's tour with Robert Morris.

Box 33, Folder 3-4

Clippings: Scandinavia, London, 1965

Scope and Content Note

Scandanavia: clippings from September 1965, reviews of performances in Scandinavia; programs for performance at the Studentafton; one letter to Rainer and Morris from Pelle, of Det Unge Tonekunstnerselskab. London: clippings from September 1965, reviews of a performance the Commonwealth Institute in London; program for the performance.

Box 132*, Folder 9

Studentafton, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Morris Modern Dans, Lund, 1965 Sep 9

Box 33, Folder 5

Spoleto, Festival of Two Worlds, 1967 Jul

Scope and Content Note

Rainer and William Davis in adaptation of material from The Mind is a Muscle.

Box 33, Folder 6

Touring possibilities, 1968-1975

Box 33, Folder 7

Goddard College, Plainfield, VT, 1968 Dec

Scope and Content Note

North East Passing. See also slides of event in Series VII.

Box 33, Folder 8

Connecticut College, New London, CT, 1968 Jul

Scope and Content Note

Connecticut Composite.

Box 33, Folder 9

Washington D.C., George Washington University, 1970

Box 33, Folder 10

Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1970

Scope and Content Note

Performance of War.

Box 33, Folder 11

Smithsonian Institution, 1970

Box 33, Folder 12

Paris, Festival d'automne a Paris, 1972 Nov

Scope and Content Note

Rainer and John Erdman. See also box 51, folders 9-10, possibly texts translated into French for this event.

Box 33, Folder 13

Hofstra University, Long Island, New York, 1972 Mar

Scope and Content Note

Performance.

Box 33, Folder 14

Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1975

Scope and Content Note

Kristina (For a novella...).

Box 33, Folder 15-17

Montpellier danse, 1996

Box 34, Folder 1-2

Stockholm, 1997

Box 34, Folder 3

Move/Martha, 2000

Scope and Content Note

Richard Move at Jacob's Pillow, with Rainer.

Box 34, Folder 4-6

Berlin, 2000

Box 34, Folder 7

White Space, Limerick, Ireland, 2001

Box 34, 135*

Conferences, 1978-1989, 2001

Box 34, Folder 8

1978

Box 34, Folder 9

Television, /Society/Art, 1980

Box 34, Folder 10

1982-1986

Box 34, 135*

Sexism, Colonialism, Misrepresentation, 1988-1989

Scope and Content Note

Rainer worked on this conference with Bérénice Reynaud.

Box 34, Folder 11

Programs, 1988

Box 34, Folder 12

Notes, lists, letters, press releases 1988

Box 34, Folder 13

Post-event, 1988-1989

Scope and Content Note

Letters, publication, clippings.

Box 135*, Folder 5

Poster: Sexism, Colonialism, Misrepresentation, Collective for Living Cinema, New York, 1988 Apr 25 - May 8

Scope and Content Note

Two copies.

Box 34, Folder 14

1989-2001

Box 35, 64

Teaching

Box 35, Folder 1

School of Visual Arts, New York

Scope and Content Note

Papers related to Rainer's teaching at SVA.

Box 64, Folder 8

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Scope and Content Note

Regarding Rainer started to teach in the Independent Study Program in 1974.

Box 35, 136*

Lectures, 1995-2004

Scope and Content Note

Information about venues.

Box 35, Folder 2-7

Lecture circuit, 1995-2002

Box 35, Folder 8

Lecture notes 2000-2002

Box 35, Folder 9

"Woman and the body," 2000-2002

Box 136*, Folder 4

Rainer Hahnhardtsachs, 2004 Oct 19

Scope and Content Note

Yvonne Rainer in conversation with John Hahnhardt, with Sid Sachs at the Crossroads Theatre, New Brunswick. Two copies.

Box 35-36, 98, 136*

Exhibitions, 1975-2004

Scope and Content Note

See also posters in oversize series.

Box 35, Folder 10

Edinburgh Film Festival, 1975

Scope and Content Note

Certificates for Lives of Performers and Film About a Woman Who....

Box 35, Folder 11

Exhibits, announcements, 1975-2006

Box 35, Folder 12

Reconsidering the Object of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1995-1996

Box 35, Folder 13

SFMOMA Media Arts Program, Films of Yvonne Rainer, 1997

Box 35, Folder 14

Mind Moving, 1999

Box 36, Folder 1-2

Barocke Party [Baroque Party], Kunsthalle, Vienna, 2001

Scope and Content Note

Includes material for catalog and copies of email correspondence between Sabine Folie and Peggy Phalen.

Box 36, 98

Radical Juxtapositions, 2000-2002

Scope and Content Note

Documentation and exhibit planning for Rosenwald Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia exhibition.

Box 36, Folder 3-4

Documentation and exhibit planning for Rosenwald Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia exhibition

Box 98

Slides for Yvonne Rainer, Radical Juxtapositions, 1961-2002, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions [LACE], 2004

Physical Description: 18.0 slides

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held 2005 May 5 - Aug 8. Photography credit: Joshua White.

Box 136*, Folder 2

Women Artists at the Millennium, Princeton University, 2001 Nov 9 and 10

Scope and Content Note

Poster.

Box 36, Folder 5

Die Gewalt ist der Rand aller Dinge, 2002

Box 36, Folder 6-8

Los Angeles, various exhibits, events, 2004 Apr-May

Box 36, Folder 9

Melbourne, Yvonne Rainer, The Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the Arts, 2004 Apr 19-23

Box 36, 136*

Retrospectives, 1994-1999, 2004

Box 36, Folder 10-11

Vienna, 1994

Scope and Content Note

Materials from the Viennale Internationale Filmfestwochen Wien.

Box 36, Folder 12-13

Retrospectives 1994-1999, 2004

Scope and Content Note

Folder 12 includes materials for the following retrospectives: Eine Veranstaltung des Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1994; Travelling Cultures: Sex, Race and the Media, American Center, Paris and New York, 1995; Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University (Rainer was the recipient of the Wexner Prize), 1995; Films by Yvonne Rainer, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1997; The Yvonne Rainer Retrospective, Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, New York, 1997; Seralves Foundation, Performing Arts Festival, Portugal, 1997; Yvonne Rainer Film Retrospective, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1997.

Folder 13 includes materials for the following retrospectives: Yvonne Rainer Performance into Politics, Barbican Centre, London, 1998; Yvonne Rainer Retrospective, Anthology Film Archives. New York, 11 June 2004; From Performer to Persona, The Films of Yvonne Rainer, Tisch School of the Arts, Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, New York University, 1999.

Box 136*, Folder 3, 8

Posters, 2004

Box 136*, Folder 3

The Films of Yvonne Rainer, Anthology Film Archive, New York City, 2004? Jan 25 - 29

Box 136*, Folder 3

Musée des beaux-arts de nantes nocturne, rencontre avec Yvonne Rainer et Christophe Wavelet..."Journey [sic] from Berlin," Cinémathèque francaise, 2004 Sep 16

Box 136*, Folder 8

The Other Cinema: Yvonne Rainer and her films, London, undated

Scope and Content Note

Two copies.

Series V. Programs, posters and reviews, 1959-2006

Physical Description: 10.0 linear feet

General Physical Description note: (12 boxes, 5 flat file folders)

Scope and Content Note

The first section is mostly comprised of programs, fliers and posters for dance performances of Rainer and for screenings of films by Rainer, but also includes programs and posters for works by other artists, all in chronological order. The second section of dance and film reviews is also organized in chronological order, with reviews on individual films in files named for the films.

Box 37-39, 132*-136*

Programs, 1961-2005

Scope and Content Note

Oversize materials also in Flatfiles 1**-2** and 4**-6**. Some programs and fliers are also located in Series III, including duplicates of material in this series.

Box 37, Folder 1

List of performances, 1961-1965

Box 37, Folder 2

1959-1960

Scope and Content Note

Programs for dance performances by Aileen Passloff and Company, James Waring and Dance Company, Katherine Litz presents; program for the 1960-1961 season of the Living Theatre.

Box 37, 132*

1961

Scope and Content Note

Programs for music, theater and dance performances. Includes program for the Fourteenth American Dance Festival, program for An Evening of Dance at The Living Theater in which Rainer performed Three Satie Spoons, and for an exhibition titled Ronald Bladen, Mark di Suvero, Green Gallery, New York City, 1961 28 Apr. Also in Flatfile 2**.

Box 37, Folder 3

Programs

Box 132*, Folder 2

Oversize

Flatfile 2**

Oversize

Box 37, Folder 4

Judson, 1962

Scope and Content Note

All material in this folder is related to the first concert of the Judson Dance Theater, including the poster for "A Concert of Dance," designed by Steve Paxton.

Box 37, Folder 5

Dance outside Judson, 1962

Scope and Content Note

Includes poster designed by Ray Johnson for An Evening of Dance... by Yvonne Rainer and Fred Herko at the Maidman Playhouse on 5 March 1962.

Box 37, Folder 6

Judson, 1963

Scope and Content Note

Includes a flyer designed by Robert Rauschenberg for a performance of Terrain performed at An Evening Of Dance, a new work: Yvonne Rainer, April 28 & 29.

Box 37, Folder 7

Dance outside Judson, 1963

Box 37, Folder 8

Other (non-dance), 1963-1964

Scope and Content Note

Theater announcements and programs, and exhibition announcements, including for Robot Opera, by Nam June Paik at the 2nd Annual New York Avant Garde Festival, 1964.

Box 37, 132*

Happenings, 1963-1964

Box 37, Folder 9

Ephemera, undated

Box 132*, Folder 4-5

Oversize posters, 1963-1964

Box 132*, Folder 4

Four Happenings by Allan Kaprow, Smolin Gallery, New York, undated, 1963?

Scope and Content Note

Postmark 11/18/1963.

Box 132*, Folder 5

You: A Décollage Happening by Vostell, Cricket Theater, New York, 1964 Apr 19

Scope and Content Note

According to caption on the poster, this was "An Action-Lecture between Allan Kaprow and Wolf Vostell...on the art of the happening."

Box 37, Folder 10

Music, 1963-1964

Box 37, 132*

Judson, 1964

Box 37, Folder 11

Programs

Scope and Content Note

Includes poster for Aileen Passloff and Dance Company (program information on the verso).

Box 132*, Folder 7, 11

Oversize poster: Judson Dance Theater Presents a Concert of Dance Nos. 14, 15, 16, Apr 27-29

Scope and Content Note

Designed by Robert Morris. Two copies.

Box 37, 132*

Dance outside Judson, 1964

Box 37, Folder 12

Programs

Scope and Content Note

See also Series VII for photograph by Peter Moore used for 24 April program, of Rainer in improvisation on the roof of a chicken coop for Yam Festival at George Segal's farm May 1963.

Box 132*, Folder 4-7

Oversize posters

Box 132*, Folder 4

Dances etc. by Beverly Schmidt, Theresa L. Kaufmann Concert Hall, May 2

Box 132*, Folder 5

Five New York Kvällar, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sep 13

Scope and Content Note

Performances by David Tudor, Merce Cunningham Dance Co., and Yvonne Rainer and Robert Morris. Three copies.

Box 132*, Folder 6

Five New York Kvällar, balett konsert happening, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sep 8

Box 132*, Folder 6

The Once Festival, Dramatic Arts Center, VFW Ballroom, Ann Arbor, Feb 25 - Mar 1

Scope and Content Note

Three copies.

Box 132*, Folder 7

Aileen Passloff and Dance Company presents four new works..., Judson Church, May 31-Jun 1

Box 37

Europe 1964, 1965

Scope and Content Note

Also in flatfile folder 1**.

Box 37, Folder 13

Programs

Scope and Content Note

Programs for Sprech und Tanzabend, and Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf; and Moderna Museet, Fylkingen, Moderna Museet; Yvonne Rainer, Bob Morris, Studentafton; NY amerikansk Ballet, Odd-Fellow Palaets; A Concert of Dance by Yvonne Rainer, Commonwealth Institute, London. Announcement for Robert Morris exhibition at Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf, 1964 October 26. See also poster for 5 New York Kvällar balett konsert hapening, Moderna Museet, Stockholm to Box 132* folder 6.

Flatfile 1**

Oversize poster: Commonwealth Institute Theatre, Michael White presents Yvonne Rainer, The American Danseuse in a Concert of Modern Dance, 1965 Sep 13

Box 37, 132*

Judson, 1965

Box 37, Folder 14

Programs

Scope and Content Note

See also contact print with photographs of Untitled Solo and another performance with Rainer and Morris in Box 69.

Box 132*, Folder 8

Oversize poster: Yvonne Rainer, Robert Morris, Judson Church, Mar 23-25

Scope and Content Note

25 copies in Series V, Judson, 1965. Each copy has a mailing address.

Box 37, 132*

Dance outside Judson, and non-dance programs, 1965

Box 37, Folder 15

Programs

Scope and Content Note

Includes announcement for a sculpture exhibition by Robert Morris, at the Green Gallery, 10 March-3 April.

Box 132*, Folder 8

Oversize poster: Two Evenings of Modern Dance by Yvonne Rainer, Wadsworth Atheneum, Mar 6-7

Box 37, 132*

Judson, 1966

Box 37, Folder 16

Programs

Box 132*, Folder 10, 12

Oversize posters

Box 132*, Folder 12

Trisha Brown, Deborah Hay, a Dance Concert, Judson Memorial Church, 1966 Mar 29 and 30

Box 132*, Folder 10

Dance Concert of Old Work and New, Judson Church, Jan 10-12

Scope and Content Note

Dancers: Rainer, David Gordon, Steve Paxton. Four copies.

Box 37, 132*-133*

Dance outside Judson, 1966

Box 37, Folder 17

Programs

Box 132*-133*

Oversize posters

Box 132*, Folder 11

An Evening of Dancing and Talking with David Gordon, Jill Johnston and Yvonne Rainer, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1966 Feb 25

Box 133*, Folder 1

The NOW Festival, Private Arts Foundation, Washington, D.C., Apr 26 - May 1

Scope and Content Note

Six copies.

Box 133*, Folder 3

9 evenings: Theatre and Engineering

Scope and Content Note

Program, Program Addenda, "CC Stage" plan for Rainer.

Box 37, 133*

1967-1968

Scope and Content Note

Also in Flat-file 2**.

Box 37, Folder 18

Programs

Box 133*, Folder 4-8

Oversize posters

Scope and Content Note

Also in Flat-file 2**.

Box 133*, Folder 4

Concerti di Danza, Decimo Festival, Teatrino delle Sette, Spoleto, 1967 Jul 9

Scope and Content Note

Program includes Rainer.

Box 133*, Folder 5

Dance Protest, Hunter Playhouse, New York, 1967 Jan 30

Box 133*, Folder 6

The Living Theatre, Paradise Now, undated 1967? 1968?

Box 133*, Folder 7

Dance Theater Workshop at Riverside, 1967 or 1968 Oct 18 - Nov 10

Box 133*, Folder 8

Benefit Show for Experiments in Art and Technology, Inc., Leo Castelli, New York, 1967 Dec 6-10.

Flatfile 2**

Spoleto Festival, "Dioniso Teatro-Club..." 1967

Box 133*, Folder 9

Midsummer, Inc, Presents Five Dance Performances, Deborah Hay, Yvonne Rainer, 1968 Apr

Box 133*, Folder 10

Midsummer, Inc, Presents Five Dance Performances by Lucinda Childs, Deborah Hay, Yvonne Rainer, Anderson Theater, New York, 1968? Apr

Box 37, Folder 19

1969

Box 37, 133*

1970-1971

Scope and Content Note

Also in Flat-file 4**.

Box 37, Folder 20

Programs

Box 133*

Oversize posters 1970-1972

Scope and Content Note

Also in Flatfile 4**.

Box 133*, Folder 13-14

Grand Union, Oberlin College, undated, [1970-1972]

Scope and Content Note

The Grand Union, YM-YWHA, New York, 1971; photographs by James Klosty and Susan Horwitz; reverse of poster contains detailed description of Grand Union, written by Peter Klein and Felicity Brock, with long quote from Robert Morris. Four copies.

Flatfile 4**

Latest version of Continuous Project - Altered Daily, Whitney Museum of Art, 1970 March 31, April 1, April 2

Scope and Content Note

Poster is torn with loss at bottom edge.

Box 31, 134*

1972

Scope and Content Note

Also in Flatfile 4**.

Box 31, Folder 27

Programs

Box 134*

Oversize posters,

Scope and Content Note

Also in Flatfile 4**.

Box 134*, Folder 2

Yvonne Rainer: Lives of Performers; Film About a Woman Who.., bfi, Distribution Library, undated, 1972?

Scope and Content Note

Two copies.

Box 134*, Folder 3

Lives of Performers; Film About a Woman Who.., 1972? Mar 4, Mar 10

Scope and Content Note

Seven copies, some badly torn.

Box 134*, Folder 4

Green Gallery Revisited: Philip Glass concert; Yvonne Rainer performance, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, Long Island,

Box 134*, Folder 1

Emily Lowe Gallery: 1) Philip Glass Concert 1972 Feb 29; 2) Yvonne Rainer Performance, Hofstra University, Hempstead, Long Island,

Flatfile 4**

Photo Romanza: poster, Festival d'Automne á Paris,

Scope and Content Note

Pictures Rainer and John Erdman. Produced by Benedicte Pesle in Paris while Rainer presented This is the Story of a Woman Who... at the Festival. Photographs by Babette Mangolte.

Flatfile 4**

Yvonne Rainer's This is the Story of a Woman Who..., Pasadena Museum of Art and California Institute of the Arts, 1972? or 1973?

Box 37, 134*

1973

Box 37, Folder 22

Programs

Scope and Content Note

File contains program for This is the story of a woman who... and Lives of performers in March and April at the Theater for the New City, and biographies for a 1973 film festival.

Box 134*, Folder 5

Oversize poster: Questa è la storia di una donna che... ( This is the Story of a Woman Who...), Contemporanea, Parcheggio Villa Borghere, Rome, Feb 22

Box 38, 134*

1974-1975

Scope and Content Note

Also in Flatfile 8**.

Box 38, Folder 1-2

Programs

Box 134*

Oversize posters

Scope and Content Note

Also in Flatfile 8**.

Box 134*, Folder 5

Yvonne Rainer Performance Around a Film About a Woman Who.., Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1974? Oct 6

Box 134*, Folder 5

Paramedia Zeight aus dem Zyklus des neuen Berufe eine Aktion von Tabea Blumenschein und Ulrike Ottinger..., 1974 May 12

Scope and Content Note

See also Box 79, photographs of Tabea Blumenschein. Torn.

Flatfile 8**

Kristina (for a...Opera): Photo romanza designed by Yvonne Rainer, 1975

Scope and Content Note

On six foam core boards.

Scope and Content Note

Published in Interfunctionen 12 (1975): 13-47. Photos: Babette Mangolte et al.

Box 134*, Folder 7

Yvonne Rainer discussion and screening of her film Kristina Talking Pictures, S.U.C.B. [State University College at Buffalo], ...in co-operation with Hallswalls, undated, Apr 21, 1975

Box 38, 134*

1976

Box 38, Folder 3

Programs

Box 134*, Folder 6, 7

Oversize posters

Box 134*, Folder 6

La danse sur scène et sur film, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, 1976 Nov

Box 134*, Folder 7

Yvonne Rainer Drei Filme im Arsenal, Berlin, 1976? Mar 3-5

Box 38, Folder 4

1977

Box 38, 135*

1979

Box 38, Folder 5

Programs

Box 135*, Folder 1

Oversize poster: The Vanguard Today: Meanings of Modernism, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, 8 Oct - 26 Nov

Scope and Content Note

Yvonne Rainer lecture [among others].

Box 38, 135*

1980

Box 38, Folder 6

Programs

Box 135*, Folder 1-2

Oversize posters

Box 135*, Folder 1

Performance, arts plastiques, théâtre, danse, musique, cinéma d'aujourd'hui, Montreal, 1980 Oct and Nov

Box 135*, Folder 2

Journeys from Berlin, A Film by Yvonne Rainer,

Box 38, Folder 7

1981

Box 38, 135*

1982

Box 38, Folder 8

Programs

Box 135*, Folder 3

Oversize posters

Box 135*, Folder 3

Cinema Histories, Cinema Practices II, Milwaukee, Nov 9-12

Box 135*, Folder 3

Retrospektive Vsevolod I. Pudovkin, Filme von Jonas Mekas, Vienna, Mar

Box 39, 135*

1983-1990

Scope and Content Note

Also in Flatfile 5**.

Box 39, Folder 9-16

Programs

Box 135*

Oversize posters

Scope and Content Note

Also in Flatfile 5**.

Box 135*, Folder 4

2nd Yvonne Rainer Film Festival, University of Calif. Santa Cruz, 1985? Oct 9-17

Scope and Content Note

Four copies.

Box 135*, Folder 4

Yvonne Rainer Festival, sponsored by College Five and the Committee on Arts and Lectures, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1985? Feb 25-25

Box 135*, Folder 6

28th New York Film Festival, 1990

Flatfile 5**

Poster: Privilege: a new film by Yvonne Rainer, Zeitgeist films 1990?

Scope and Content Note

Nine copies.

Box 38, 135*

1991

Box 38, Folder 17

Programs

Box 135*, Folder 7

Oversize poster: Matrilineage Women Art Change, Syracuse University, Nov 9-17

Box 38, Folder 18

1992

Box 38, 135*

1993

Box 38, Folder 19

Programs

Box 135*, Folder 8

Oversize poster: Women Make Waves, Sistren Theatre Collective, Sep 26 - Oct 2

Box 38, Folder 20

1994-1995

Box 38, 135*

1996-1997

Scope and Content Note

Also in Flatfile 6**.

Box 39, Folder 1

Programs

Box 135*

Oversize posters

Scope and Content Note

Also in Flatfile 6**.

Flatfile 6**

MURDER and murder: the new film by Yvonne Rainer, Zeitgeist Films, undated 1996?

Scope and Content Note

Two copies.

Box 135*, Folder 8

MURDER and murder, Franklin Patterson Hampshire College, Amherst, 1997? Mar 27

Scope and Content Note

Six copies.

Box 39, 135*

1999

Box 39, Folder 2

Programs

Box 135*, Folder 9

Oversize poster: Afterimage: Drawing Through Process, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Apr 10

Box 39, Folder 3

2000

Box 39, 136*

Bessie awards, 2000

Box 39, Folder 4

Programs

Box 136*, Folder 1

Certificate: The Bessies, Sep 15

Scope and Content Note

Awarded to Rainer for her work, After the Summer Dies the Swan.

Box 38

2001-2002

Scope and Content Note

Also in Flatfile 6**.

Box 39, Folder 5-6

Programs

Flatfile 6**

Oversize poster: Eine Barocke Party : Augen blicke des Welttheaters in der Zeitgenössischen Kunst...Kunsthalle Wien, 2001 Jun 16 - Sep 16

Scope and Content Note

Origin of the poster is a frame enlargement from Rainer's film Privilege; Gabriella Farrar pictured. Eine Barocke Party was the opening show of the newly renovated Kunstalle Wien in 2001. Rainer installed "Inner Appearances," the slide show, here for the first time.

Box 39, 136*

2003

Box 39, Folder 7

Programs

Box 136*, Folder 2

Oversize poster: Beyond / After the Screen, The Impact of Documenta X and XI of Contemporary Film and Video Practice, University of Florida, Gainesville, Apr 10-12

Box 39, Folder 8-9

2004-2005

Box 204

Duplicates: programs and posters

Box 40-43, 135*

Reviews, 1961-2006

Scope and Content Note

Some reviews are also located in Series III.A.

Box 40, Folder 1

Judson, 1962

Box 40, Folder 2

Dance other than Judson, 1961-1962

Box 40, Folder 3

Judson, 1963

Box 40, Folder 4

Dance other than Judson, 1963

Box 40, Folder 5

Rainer and Morris, 1963-1966

Box 40, Folder 6

Rainer and Morris in Germany and Denmark, 1964-1965

Box 40, Folder 7

Judson, 1964

Box 40, Folder 8

Surplus Dance Theatre, 1964

Box 40, Folder 9

Judson, 1965

Box 40, Folder 10

Dance other than Judson, 1964-1965

Box 40, Folder 11

Judson, 1966

Box 40, Folder 12

Dance other than Judson, 1966

Box 40, Folder 13

1966

Box 40, Folder 14

1968

Box 40, Folder 15-16

1969

Scope and Content Note

Includes page of review excerpts titled: "Negative Dance Review excerpts."

Box 40, Folder 17

1970

Box 40, Folder 18

1971

Box 40, Folder 19

1972

Box 40, Folder 20

1973

Box 40, Folder 21

1974-1975

Box 40, Folder 22

1976

Box 40, Folder 23

1977

Box 41, Folder 1

1978-1980

Box 41, Folder 2

1982

Box 41, Folder 3

1983-1985, 1989

Box 41, Folder 4

1991-1992, 1994

Box 41, Folder 5

1996-1997

Box 41, Folder 6

1998-2003

Box 41, Folder 7

2004, 2006

Box 41, Folder 8

Lives of Performers

Box 41, Folder 9

Film About a Woman Who...

Box 41, Folder 10-12

Kristina Talking Pictures

Box 41-42, Folder 13-2

Journeys from Berlin / 1971

Box 42, Folder 3-6

The Man Who Envied Women

Box 42, Folder 7-13

Privilege

Box 43, Folder 1-7

MURDER and murder

Series VI. Topical research files, circa 1951-2005

Physical Description: 11.25 linear feet

General Physical Description note: (22 boxes, 2 flat file folders)

Scope and Content Note

Files contain collected material on people and topics. Much of this material seems to have fed Rainer's work. The files are organized alphabetically. Most of the file headings are from the original file folders.

Box 44, Folder 1

Abortion rights and birth control, undated

Box 44, Folder 2

Ackerman, Chantal, undated

Scope and Content Note

Photocopied article, program for screenings at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Box 44, Folder 3

Activist information, undated

Box 44, Folder 4

AFNA, undated

Box 44, Folder 5

African film, undated

Scope and Content Note

Programs, articles.

Box 44, Folder 6

African-American film, undated

Scope and Content Note

Programs, articles, and notes.

Box 44, Folder 7

Aging, undated

Box 44, Folder 8

AIDS, undated

Box 44, Folder 9

AIDS and film, circa 1989-1990

Scope and Content Note

Fear of Disclosure project.

Box 44, Folder 10

Anarchism, undated

Box 44, Folder 11

Ann Arbor, Michigan and Once Festival, 1962-1965

Scope and Content Note

Performance programs and publication. [Rainer performed here in 1964.]

Box 44, Folder 12

Antin, Eleanor, undated

Scope and Content Note

Postcards, "100 boots" series.

Box 44, Folder 13

Art, miscellaneous printed images of paintings, undated

Box 44, Folder 14

Articles, collected, 1975-1978

Scope and Content Note

About people, events, Happenings, etc.

Box 44, Folder 15

Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America, General Statement, 1984 Jan

Scope and Content Note

Also in Flatfile 5**.

Box 44, Folder 15

Papers

Flatfile 5**

Oversize

Scope and Content Note

Poster designed by Claes Oldenburg.

Box 44, Folder 16

Artists Community Groups, undated

Box 44, Folder 17

Asian film, undated

Scope and Content Note

Programs, articles.

Box 45, Folder 1-2

Avant-garde film, 1971-2000

Scope and Content Note

Includes programs, articles and press releases. See also New York Film Festival.

Box 45, Folder 3

Avant-garde film: Sherry Millner, 1985

Scope and Content Note

Letter to Rainer regarding Millner film, collages by Millner, photograph of her son.

Box 45, Folder 4

Awards, 1993

Scope and Content Note

Rainer honorary degrees and awards.

Box 45, Folder 5-7

Baader Meinhof research and notes, 1975-1978

Scope and Content Note

Related to Rainer's film Journeys from Berlin/1971. See also files relating to the film in box 22.

Box 45, Folder 9

Backlash: Arlene Croce, undated

Scope and Content Note

Regarding Croce's article about "victim art." Clippings of responses by others.

Box 45, Folder 8

Barnes, Clive, undated

Scope and Content Note

Clippings of his reviews.

Box 45, Folder 10-12

Banes, Sally, undated

Scope and Content Note

Articles by, in manuscript and photocopies of published versions. Also in Box 46, folder 1.

Box 46, Folder 2

Barthes, Roland, undated

Scope and Content Note

Newspaper article/book review about.

Box 45, Folder 10-11

Bennington College, Crossett Library, undated

Scope and Content Note

Photocopies of photographs owned by the Crossett.

Box 46, Folder 3

Berger, John, undated

Scope and Content Note

Three articles by Berger.

Box 59, Folder 5

Bernstein, Cheryl, "Performance as news," undated

Scope and Content Note

Photocopy of article.

Box 46, Folder 4

Bibliographies: Film, undated

Box 46, Folder 5

Billops, Camille, undated

Scope and Content Note

Resume, articles and printed ephemera about.

Box 46, Folder 6-8

Books, undated

Scope and Content Note

Lists of titles, reading notes, clippings and catalogues.

Box 46, Folder 9

Borden, Lizzie, undated

Scope and Content Note

Articles and press about.

Box 46, Folder 10

Bordowitz, Gregg, undated

Scope and Content Note

Publicity information on films by Bordowitz, scripts for a film.

Box 46, Folder 11

Braderman, Joan, undated

Scope and Content Note

Resume, printed materials about, with letter asking Rainer for a letter in support of promotion/tenure.

Box 46, Folder 12

British film, undated

Scope and Content Note

Press, programs, articles about.

Box 55, Folder 15

Brown, Jean, 1960s

Scope and Content Note

Papers regarding the Jean Brown collection at Judson.

Box 46, Folder 13

Bryant, Tisa, undated

Scope and Content Note

Chapbook written by Bryant, with letter to Rainer and business card.

Box 46, Folder 14

Buñuel, Luis, undated

Scope and Content Note

Photocopied pages about.

Box 46, Folder 15-16

Bush, George W., undated

Scope and Content Note

Clippings, political ephemera.

Box 47, Folder 1-4

Cancer, undated

Box 47, Folder 5

Carroll, Noël, undated

Scope and Content Note

"From Real to Real Entangled in Nonfiction Film," typescript.

Box 133*, Folder 2

Carmines, Al, 1966 Jul 3

Scope and Content Note

New York Times clipping about Al Carmines, minister of Judson Memorial Church.

Box 47, Folder 6

Cat, undated

Box 55, Folder 12

Catalogs and manuals, undated

Scope and Content Note

Catalog for books for magicians, catalog for sound effect records, manual for a Kodak Carousel 650 projector, documentation for the Farquhar "Earth in Space" globe, and a driver's license pamphlet.

Box 47, Folder 7

Central America, undated

Box 47, Folder 8

Centre national de la danse, 2002

Scope and Content Note

Press releases, promotional information.

Box 48, Folder 1

Cinematique (San Francisco), undated

Scope and Content Note

Program.

Box 48, Folder 2

Cockburn, Alexander, undated

Scope and Content Note

Article by.

Box 48, Folder 3-6

Collective for Living Cinema, undated

Scope and Content Note

Programs.

Box 48, Folder 7

Copeland, Roger undated

Box 48, Folder 8

Corner, Philip, undated

Box 49, Folder 1

Couvert Action, 1981, 1986

Scope and Content Note

Article by Glenn Alcalay, "America's Nuclear Colony," Fund for Information and Accountability, Fall, 1986; article by Russ W. Baker, "CIA Out of Control," Voice, 10 September 1981.

Box 49, Folder 2

Crimp, Douglas, undated

Box 49, Folder 3-4

Croce, Arlene, 1980

Scope and Content Note

Article by Croce, New Yorker, June 30, 1980; Rainer's response to the article.

Box 49, Folder 5

Cuba, undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes packet of information from the Center for Cuban Studies.

Box 49, Folder 6

Cunningham, Merce, 1960-1967, 1980

Scope and Content Note

Programs, reviews, two photographs: Cage, Cunningham.

Box 49, Folder 7-8

Dance, miscellaneous, 1978-1992

Scope and Content Note

Program for Fall events, presented by the Dance Theater Workshop, 1982; Article by Owen Edwards, "The Look of Dance," New York Times Magazine, 26 November 1978; information on the 1992 Living Room Festival.

Box 49, Folder 9

Dance Notation Bureau, undated

Box 49, Folder 10

Dancer's Guide, 1963

Box 49, Folder 11

Denes, Magda, undated

Scope and Content Note

Three reprints of chapters from publications on gestalt therapy and sensitivity training.

Box 49, Folder 12

DIA Art Foundation, 1987-1989

Box 50, Folder 1

Dilexi Foundation, 1969

Box 50, Folder 2

Distribution information, undated

Scope and Content Note

Regarding the film The trouble with love and a film festival, The Age of New Yorker Films.

Box 50, Folder 3

Documentary, undated

Scope and Content Note

Regarding films.

Box 50, Folder 4

DOCUMENTS, 1992

Scope and Content Note

Project statement and letter to Rainer asking her to be on the Advisory Board for this publication.

Box 50, Folder 5

Dougherty, Cecilia, 1997

Scope and Content Note

Conversation with Yvonne Rainer.

Box 50

Drawings by Rainer of Nijinsky and Isadora Duncan, circa 1968?

Scope and Content Note

Drawings after photographs of Nijinsky. Twelve drawings, ink on paper, mounted on two boards, after drawings by Abram Walkowitz of Isadora Duncan. Also in flat-file 3**.

Box 50, Folder 6

Drawings

Flatfile 3**

Oversize

Box 50, Folder 7

Drawings, clippings, and paintings, undated

Scope and Content Note

By various people; also clippings of figures in Japanese prints.

Box 50, Folder 7

Dreyer, Carl, undated

Scope and Content Note

Scenario for film.

Box 50, Folder 9

Duras, Marguerite, 1975

Scope and Content Note

October offprint: Joan Copjec article.

Box 50, Folder 10

E.A.T. Newsletter, 1967-1968

Scope and Content Note

Two issues.

Box 50, Folder 11

Economics, 1988, 1990

Scope and Content Note

Articles.

Box 50, Folder 12

Electoral politics, undated

Scope and Content Note

Newsletter: Women's Rights Alert, from Senator Barbara Boxer.

Box 50, Folder 13

Environment, undated

Box 50, Folder 14

Farocki, Harun, undated

Box 50, Folder 15

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, undated

Box 50, Folder 16

Feminist issues, undated

Box 50, Folder 18

Film: Actors Agencies, undated

Box 50, Folder 19

Film: Assistants, undated

Box 50, Folder 17

Film: Technical information, undated

Box 51, Folder 1

Films: Women, undated

Scope and Content Note

Film festival programs, seminars and articles.

Box 51, Folder 2

Floating Bear: a newsletter, 1961-1962

Scope and Content Note

Issues of the newsletter.

Box 51, Folder 3

Fluxhouse, 1967

Scope and Content Note

Material pertaining to the Fluxhouse Cooperative, formed to address the problem of working and living space for artists in New York City.

Box 51, 132*

Fluxus, undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes announcements for Fluxus events, and Fluxus materials including postcards, FluxPost stamps, and six posters from 1962? - 1966. One of the posters is based on drawing by Nam June Paik, "Fluxus Island in Décollage Ocean."

Box 51, Folder 4

Files

Box 132*, Folder 3

Oversize

Box 51, Folder 5

Foreman, Richard, undated

Scope and Content Note

Programs, articles and other information relating to the American playwright and director.

Box 51, Folder 6

Frampton, Hollis, undated

Scope and Content Note

Photocopied articles, public relations material, pertaining to the independent filmmaker.

Box 51, Folder 7-8

French cinema, undated

Scope and Content Note

Mostly programs from The Museum of Modern Art, Department of Film, and Lincoln Center.

Box 51, Folder 9-10

French texts, circa 1972

Scope and Content Note

Translations of texts into French, probably for the event, Une Soiree Avec Yvonne Rainer, Yvonne Rainer et John Erdman, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, A.R.C., 15, 16 and 19 November 1972; and the Festival D'Automne and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 12 August 1972. See also Box 33, folder 12.

Box 51, Folder 11

Friedrich, Su, 1966

Scope and Content Note

Photocopied articles, announcements, pertaining to the filmmaker, and a letter to Rainer, 1996

Box 51, Folder 12

Gay, undated

Scope and Content Note

Conference programs, articles, newspaper announcements, and event announcements.

Box 52, Folder 1-2

Gay film, undated

Scope and Content Note

Programs, announcements.

Box 52, Folder 3

German film, undated

Box 52, Folder 4

Gever, Martha, undated

Scope and Content Note

Articles by, emails to Rainer.

Box 52, Folder 5

Godard, Jean Luc, undated

Box 52, Folder 6

Godmillow, Jill, undated

Scope and Content Note

Letters, resume, documentation of work supporting promotion.

Box 52, Folder 7

Goodeve, Thyrza, undated

Scope and Content Note

Articles, manuscripts by.

Box 52, Folder 8

Gorin, Jean Pierre, undated

Scope and Content Note

Program for his film, Poto and Cabongo.

Box 52, Folder 9

Graves, Nancy, undated

Scope and Content Note

Announcement for an exhibition of prints by the artist.

Box 52, Folder 10

Green, Renee, undated

Scope and Content Note

Letter, manuscripts, photocopied articles.

Box 52, Folder 11

Green, Shelley, undated

Scope and Content Note

Letter to Rainer about her book on Rainer's work, manuscript chapter about Privilege.

Box 52, Folder 12

Greenwich, London Dance Agency, 2003

Box 52, Folder 13

Greyson, John, undated

Scope and Content Note

About his film scripts.

Box 52, Folder 14

Group Material and Martha Rosler, DIA, 1989

Box 52, Folder 15

Guerilla Girls, undated

Scope and Content Note

Promotional materials, articles.

Box 53-54

Grant Applications, 1967-2003

Box 53, Folder 1-9

1967-1975

Box 53, Folder 10

1978-1979

Box 53, Folder 11

1982

Box 53, Folder 12

1984-1985

Box 53, Folder 13

1987-1988

Box 53, Folder 14

1989

Box 53, Folder 15

MacArthur Foundation, 1990

Box 54, Folder 1

Privilege, 1990

Box 54, Folder 2

Privilege, National Endowment for the Arts, 1990

Box 54, Folder 3

Privilege, The Rockefeller Foundation, 1990

Box 54, Folder 4

Grants, Correspondence, 1994

Box 54, Folder 5

The American Film Institute, 1994

Box 54, Folder 6

ITVS (Independent Television Service), 1994

Box 54, Folder 7

National Endowment for the Arts, 1994

Box 54, Folder 8

Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media, Women Make Movies, New York Foundation for the Arts, 1994

Box 54, Folder 9

Correspondence with actors, 1994-1995

Box 54, Folder 10

Correspondence, 1995

Box 54, Folder 11

The American Film Institute, 1995

Box 54, Folder 12

Funding Exchange, 1995

Box 54, Folder 13

ITVS (Independent Television Service), 1995

Box 54, Folder 14

National Endowment for the Arts, 1995

Box 54, Folder 15

New York State Council on the Arts, 1995

Box 54, Folder 16

The Rockefeller Foundation, 1995-1996

Box 54, Folder 17

Correspondence, 1996

Box 54, Folder 18

The American Film Institute, 1996

Box 54, Folder 19

Astraea, 1996

Box 54, Folder 20

Funding Information, 1996

Box 54, Folder 21

National Endowment for the Arts, 1996

Box 54, Folder 22

Final Reports, 1996-1997

Box 54, Folder 23

The Rockefeller Foundation, 1999

Box 54, Folder 24

NYSCA (New York State Council on the Arts) Electronic Media and Film Program, 2002

Box 54, Folder 25

Video Data Bank , 2003

Box 54, Folder 27

Hammer, Barbara, undated

Scope and Content Note

Resume.

Box 54, Folder 28

Harper's Bazaar, 1967

Scope and Content Note

Issue devoted to "100 American Women of Accomplishment"; includes Rainer.

Box 54, Folder 29

Hay, Deborah, 1969-2005

Scope and Content Note

Programs and public relations material about her and her dance company.

Box 54, 95

Held, Al, undated

Box 54, Folder 30

Papers

Scope and Content Note

Two printed images of paintings, and an exhibition announcement (1967).

Box 95

Slides

Scope and Content Note

Slides show paintings in an interior (studio or apartment?); Al Held is in two of the views.

Box 55, Folder 1-4

Higgins, Dick, undated

Box 55, Folder 1

Printed texts, ephemera

Box 55, Folder 2

Manuscript of "Postface"

Physical Description: 83.0 leaves

Box 55, Folder 3

Newspaper clipping about Fluxus and Higgins

Box 55, Folder 4

Something Else Press printed matter

Scope and Content Note

Includes catalog, newsletter, chapbook, and directions to Higgins's house.

Box 55, Folder 5

History, undated

Box 55, Folder 6

History - film, undated

Box 55, Folder 7

Hollywood - film, undated

Box 55, Folder 8

Homeless, undated

Box 55, Folder 9

Housing, 1969

Scope and Content Note

Two announcements from the City-Wide Committee for Artist's Housing in Cooper Square.

Box 55, Folder 10

Human Rights Festival, undated

Box 55, Folder 11

Indian film, undated

Box 55, Folder 13

Jameson, Fredric, undated

Scope and Content Note

His review of books on Proust.

Box 55, Folder 14

Japanese film, undated

Box 55, Folder 16-19

Johnston, Jill, undated

Scope and Content Note

Reviews.

Box 55, Folder 20

Judson Memorial Church, undated

Scope and Content Note

Flyers, programs, public relations. See also Programs.

Box 55, Folder 21

Judson Memorial Church, Celebration of Freedom, 1999 Apr

Box 55, Folder 22

Judson Poets Theater, undated

Scope and Content Note

Programs, flyers.

Box 55, Folder 23

Julian, Isaac, 2003

Scope and Content Note

Articles and press for his film on Frantz Fanon.

Box 56, Folder 1

Kaprow, Allan, A Selection of Recent Happenings, 1964, 1965

Scope and Content Note

Typed scores.

Box 56, Folder 2

Kelly, Mary, undated

Scope and Content Note

Resume, articles.

Box 56, Folder 3

Koch, Stephen, undated

Scope and Content Note

Articles and reviews by Koch.

Box 56, Folder 4

Kosovo, undated

Box 56, Folder 5

Lambert, Carrie, undated

Scope and Content Note

Manuscript essay on Trio A.

Box 56, Folder 6

Larson, Ernest, undated

Scope and Content Note

Articles by Larson and flyers for programs he curated.

Box 56, Folder 7

Latin American film, undated

Box 56, Folder 8

Lehmann, Minnette, undated

Scope and Content Note

Articles by Lehmann.

Box 56, Folder 9

Le Roy, Xavier, undated

Scope and Content Note

Letter to Rainer, 1999, and description of one of his performances.

Box 56, Folder 10

Lesbians, undated

Box 56, Folder 11

Lesbians in film and video, undated

Box 56, Folder 12

Leung, Simon, undated

Scope and Content Note

Pinpricked drawing.

Box 56, Folder 13

Lew, Jeffrey, undated

Scope and Content Note

Newspaper article about Lew.

Box 56, Folder 14

Lewis, Glenn, undated

Scope and Content Note

Postcards and ephemera.

Box 56, Folder 15

Lewitt, Sol, undated

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition announcement/brochure, two copies.

Box 56, Folder 16

London, undated

Scope and Content Note

Article.

Box 56, Folder 17

Lord, Catherine, undated

Scope and Content Note

Manuscripts.

Box 56, Folder 18

Lower East Side, undated

Scope and Content Note

Article, flyer.

Box 56, Folder 19

Luca, Mark, undated

Scope and Content Note

Resume, writings and ephemera.

Box 56, Folder 20

Ludlam, Charles, undated

Scope and Content Note

"Manifesto, Ridiculous Theater, Scourge of Human Folly."

Box 56, Folder 21

MacLow, Jackson, undated

Scope and Content Note

Typed and printed poems. See also folders "Poetry."

Box 56, Folder 22

Mail Art, undated

Scope and Content Note

From Ray Johnson and others.

Box 56, Folder 23

Mailing lists, undated

Box 56, Folder 24

Mangolte, Babette, undated

Scope and Content Note

Resume, letters, and documentation for her application for a position at University of California, San Diego.

Box 57, Folder 1

Marriage, 1983

Scope and Content Note

Article by Vivian Gornick, "Against Marriage," Village Voice, 1983 November 15.

Box 57, Folder 2

Menopause, undated

Box 57, Folder 3

Millner, Sherry, undated

Scope and Content Note

Material to support a promotion including her resume, letters and articles.

Box 57, 58

Miscellaneous, undated

Box 57, Folder 4

Papers

Box 58, Folder 13

Note,

Scope and Content Note

A note from Rainer about a "Steno notebook" loaned to Sally Banes.

Box 57, Folder 5

Mitchell, Jack, 1968

Scope and Content Note

Article about, and reproduction of, a group photograph that Mitchell took of Merce Cunningham, Erick Hawkins, Paul Taylor, Yvonne Rainer, Don Redlich, Twyla Tharp, Martha Grahham and José Limón in 1968.

Box 57, Folder 6

Monk, Meredith, undated

Scope and Content Note

Process Notes on "Portable."

Box 57, Folder 7-9

Morris, Robert, undated

Scope and Content Note

Clippings, typescript review of Morris performance, note from Rainer regarding material loaned to Sally Banes, and a manuscript by Jill Johnston.

Box 57, Folder 10

Mulvey, Laura and Peter Wollen undated

Scope and Content Note

Flyers, press releases, notes.

Box 57, Folder 11

Music, undated

Scope and Content Note

Article by John Rockwell, "New York's Experimental Music Sounds Familiar Notes."

Box 57, Folder 12

Narrative, 1995, 1999

Scope and Content Note

Article; information about a class at Columbia University.

Box 57-58

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), 1990

Scope and Content Note

About NEA censorship controversy.

Box 57, Folder 13

Files

Box 58, Folder 1-2

Files

Box 58, Folder 3

New American Filmmakers, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1982

Box 58, Folder 4-5

New York, 1970's

Scope and Content Note

Articles, notes on retail goods and services, map of New York City.

Box 58, Folder 6-7

New York Film Festival, 1963, 2000-2004

Box 58, Folder 6

1963

Scope and Content Note

Articles, notes on retail good and services, map of New York City.

Box 58, Folder 7

circa 2000-2004

Scope and Content Note

Programs.

Box 58, Folder 7

New York Film Festival, circa 2000-2004

Scope and Content Note

Programs.

Box 58, Folder 8

New York Foundation for the Arts, undated

Box 58, Folder 9

New York Poets Theater, undated

Scope and Content Note

File contains only a note regarding loan of material to Sally Banes.

Box 58, Folder 10

New York Say No to War, undated

Scope and Content Note

Printed ephemera.

Box 58, Folder 11

News clippings, undated

Scope and Content Note

Miscellaneous news clippings, organized into three groupings: arts, international and politics, science and medicine.

Box 58, Folder 12

No More Nice Girls, undated

Box 58, Folder 14

NOW Festival, 1966

Scope and Content Note

Program. See also posters, Box 133*, f.1.

Box 58, Folder 15-16

Nuclear, anti-nuke, undated

Box 58, Folder 17

Owens, Craig, undated

Scope and Content Note

Article by Owens, and his obituary.

Box 59, Folder 1

Palestine, undated

Scope and Content Note

Pamphlet from Third World Newsreel.

Box 59, Folder 2

Paper Tiger, undated

Scope and Content Note

Flyers, articles.

Box 59, Folder 3

Paris, undated

Scope and Content Note

Article about.

Box 59, Folder 4

Paxton, Steve, undated

Scope and Content Note

Letters, notes, printed ephemera.

Box 59, Folder 6-7

Poetry, undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes poems by Jackson MacLow, among others.

Box 59, Folder 8

Politics, civil rights, undated

Scope and Content Note

Magazines.

Box 59, Folder 9

Pornography, undated

Box 59, Folder 10-11

Postcards: old postcards from Rome, undated

Box 59, Folder 12

Postcards, clippings, photographs, undated

Box 59, Folder 13

Powell, Michael and Pressburger, undated

Box 59, Folder 14

Psychology, undated

Scope and Content Note

Articles.

Box 59, Folder 15

Psychoanalysis, undated

Scope and Content Note

Articles.

Box 59, Folder 16

Quattuor Albrecht Knust, undated

Scope and Content Note

Dance company in communication with Rainer regarding Continuous Project - Altered Daily.

Box 60, Folder 1-2

Race, undated

Scope and Content Note

Notes and clippings.

Box 60, Folder 3-4

Rainer, Childs, Hay, 1968

Scope and Content Note

Letters asking for financial assistance. Publicity.

Box 60, Folder 5

Rape, undated

Box 60, Folder 6

Rappaport, Mark, 1982

Scope and Content Note

Film proposal.

Box 60, 132*

Rauschenberg, Robert, 1951, 1966-1968

Scope and Content Note

Also includes the exhibition poster for White Paintings, his first exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery, Oct 12 - 27, 1951.

Box 60, Folder 7

Papers

Scope and Content Note

Letters, including hand-made Christmas cards for 1966, 1967 and 1968, composed of hand-illustrated 2 inch square cards; photographs; and programs.

Box 132*, Folder 1

Exhibition poster

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition poster for White Paintings, his first exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery, Oct 12 - 27, 1951.

Box 60, Folder 8-10

Reading notes, 1966-1968, undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes notes on Marshall McLuhan.

Box 60, Folder 11

Reynaud, Bérénice, 1966-1968

Scope and Content Note

Articles and manuscript about independent film.

Box 61, Folder 1-8

Research notes, 1980s-1990s

Box 60, Folder 12

Rich, Ruby, 1966-1968

Scope and Content Note

Articles, manuscripts.

Box 60, Folder 13

Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, 1966-1968

Box 62, Folder 1

Rosler, Martha, undated

Scope and Content Note

Articles

Box 62, Folder 2

Russian film, undated

Scope and Content Note

Flyer.

Box 62, Folder 3

Schneider, Gary, undated

Scope and Content Note

Clippings.

Box 62, Folder 4

Sexuality, undated

Box 62, Folder 5

Sirk, Douglas, undated

Scope and Content Note

Program flyer.

Box 62, Folder 6

Soho (New York City), undated

Box 129*, Folder 1

South Africa, 1998

Scope and Content Note

Report of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), November 1998.

Box 129*, Folder 1

Soviet Union, 1991

Scope and Content Note

Issues of the New York Times from August 1991 reporting the fall of the Soviet Union.

Box 62, Folder 7

Spiro, Ellen, 2000

Scope and Content Note

Resume, letters.

Box 62, Folder 8-9

Students, undated

Scope and Content Note

Resume, letters and writings.

Box 62, Folder 10

Straub, Jean-Marie and Daniele Huillet, undated

Scope and Content Note

Program of films.

Box 62, Folder 11

Sugerman, George, undated

Scope and Content Note

Two Christmas cards from Sugerman, one with a collage, dated 1959, and one with a painting.

Box 62, Folder 12

Theater history, 1975 Feb 4

Scope and Content Note

Article by Rachel Rosenthal, Journal of the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, February 4, 1975.

Box 62, Folder 13-19

Theater programs, 1982-1998 and undated

Box 62, Folder 13

Brooklyn Academy of Music, undated

Box 62, Folder 14

C-D, undated

Box 62, Folder 15

Lincoln Center, 1982-1984

Box 62, Folder 16

M-O, undated

Box 62, Folder 17

Playbill, 1987, 1992-1998

Box 62, Folder 18

Public Access, 1996

Box 62, Folder 19

Miscellaneous, undated

Scope and Content Note

The Summer in Gossensass, 1998; Theater Oobleck production of Necessity (undated); La Ma Ma etc. (undated); Now that Communism is Dead my Life Feels Empty, 2001; Roy Cohn/Jack Smith, 1992.

Box 62, Folder 20

Theater Rally, 1965

Box 62, Folder 21

Third World Cinema Conference and other programs, undated

Scope and Content Note

Programs for the Third World Cinema Conference, 1983; Early Black Cinema (undated); The Black Woman Independent: Representing Race and Gender, 1987; X ( The Life and Times of Malcolm X), 1986; and Antonio das Mortes, 1986.

Box 63, Folder 1

Tillman, Lynn, undated

Scope and Content Note

Photocopied article.

Box 129*, Folder 1

Titanic, 1998

Scope and Content Note

An April 15, 1998 reissue of the April 16, 1912 New York Times reporting the news of the sinking of the Titanic.

Box 63, Folder 2

Trinh T. Minh-ha, undated

Scope and Content Note

Articles, public relations material.

Box 63, 134*

Trisha Brown Company, 1978-2005

Box 63, Folder 3-22

Files

Scope and Content Note

Interview (manuscript, folder 3), programs, reviews and articles.

Box 134*, Folder 6, 8

Oversize posters

Box 64, Folder 1

USSR, undated

Scope and Content Note

Ephemera regarding film.

Box 64, Folder 2

Video Against AIDS, undated

Scope and Content Note

Programs.

Box 64, Folder 3

War Game Project, undated

Scope and Content Note

Public relations material.

Box 64, Folder 4

Warhol, Andy, undated

Scope and Content Note

William Wilson article, "Prince of Boredom"; photocopy excerpt from POPism : the Warhol '60s; and a letter to Rainer from Mark Francis, Curator of the Andy Warhol Museum, informing Rainer that he had acquired a photograph (of Rainer with Warhol) in a group of photographs taken by David McCabe (see Box 86, folder 8).

Box 64, Folder 5

Waring, James, undated

Scope and Content Note

Ephemera; note regarding items loaned to Sally Banes.

Box 64, Folder 6

Weems, Carrie Mae, undated

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition ephemera.

Box 64

Wexner Prize, 1995

Scope and Content Note

Also in Flatfile 5**.

Box 64, Folder 7

Articles, press releases

Flatfile 5**

Wexner Center poster

Scope and Content Note

Photos by Peter Moore. According to Rainer: "The images are three different photos from an improvisation that Trisha Brown and I did on the roof of a chicken coop at George Segal's farm at a Fluxus event called the Yam Festival in 1963. The Wexner used those images as a poster when I got the Wexner Prize in 1995." Seven copies

Box 64, Folder 9

Wilson, Deborah, undated

Scope and Content Note

Essay titled "The Man Moves."

Box 64, Folder 10

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, undated

Scope and Content Note

Articles.

Box 64, Folder 11

Womens' Action Committee, undated

Box 64, Folder 12

World Trade Center, 2001

Scope and Content Note

Emails, flyers, clippings.

Box 64, Folder 13

World War II, undated

Scope and Content Note

Articles.

Box 65, Folder 8

Zummer, Thomas, 1993

Scope and Content Note

Manuscript text for a performance.

Series VII. Photography, 1933-2004

Physical Description: 18.25 linear feet

General Physical Description note: (35 boxes)

Scope and Content Note

Rainer is pictured in most of the photographs. Where known, the photographers are listed. Includes early portraits and images of Rainer performing, and stills from her films, as well as some images of others. Arranged by photographic format and date.

Subseries VII.a. Black and white photographs, 1933-2001

Physical Description: 15.5 linear feet

General Physical Description note: (25 boxes)

Scope and Content Note

The black and white photographs include extensive documentation of Rainer's dance performances and rehearsals and also include frame enlargements from her films. Photographers include Peter Moore, Julie Abeles, Al Giese, Susan Horowitz, Babette Mangolte and Ted Wester.

Box 66

Personal photographs and documents, circa 1933-2001

Physical Description: 72.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Box 66 begins with family photographs from the correspondence file of letters to Rainer's brother, Ivan Rainer, 1953-1959 (12 photographs). The other photographs are mostly images of Rainer; other persons represented in the photographs include the sculptor Ronald Bladen in 1958 (four photographs), the actress Ruth Sobotka in 1961 (one photograph), and Robert Morris.

Box 67-84

Photographs of Rainer performing, 1957-2000

Scope and Content Note

Arranged chronologically, overall. Photographs of much performed works are listed together.

Box 67

Rainer performing with Edith Stephan, circa 1957

Physical Description: 1.0 photograph

Scope and Content Note

With three unidentified dancers. Photographer: Bela Cseh.

Box 67

Rainer in Louise Gilkes studio, circa 1957

Physical Description: 8.0 photographs

Box 67

Rainer and Nancy Meeham improvising, 1960

Physical Description: 9.0 photographs

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Simone Forti.

Box 67

Rainer in an off-off Broadway play, Greenwich Village, New York, circa 1958

Physical Description: 2.0 photographs

Box 67

Anna Halprin workshop, 1960 Summer

Physical Description: 1.0 photograph

Scope and Content Note

Group portrait, includes Rainer.

Box 67

Three Satie Spoons, KQED-TV studio, San Francisco, 1962

Physical Description: 4.0 photographs

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Warner Jepson.

Box 67

Ordinary Dance, rehearsal, KQED-TV, San Francisco, 1962

Physical Description: 6.0 photographs

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Warner Jepson.

Box 67

Ordinary Dance, performance, KQED-TV, San Francisco, 1962

Physical Description: 6.0 photographs

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Warner Jepson.

Box 67

The Bells, KQED-TV, San Francisco, 1962

Physical Description: 3.0 photographs

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Warner Jepson.

Box 67

Satie for Two , 1962

Physical Description: 11.0 photographs

Scope and Content Note

Rainer and Trisha Brown in a studio.

Box 67

Satie for Two, 92nd St. YMHA, New York, 1962 or 1963

Physical Description: 11.0 photographs

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Vladimir Sladon. Contact sheets of performance (three pages), and business card of photographer.

Box 67

Rainer in unidentified James Waring dances, Judson Church, circa 1963

Physical Description: 4.0 photographs

Box 67

Three Seascapes, rehearsal, Judson Church, 1963

Physical Description: 2.0 photographs

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit on one print: Robert R. McElroy.

Box 67

Three Seascapes, performance, Judson Church, 1963

Physical Description: 3.0 photographs

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit on one print: Al Giese.

Box 67

Word Words, Judson Church, 1963 Jan 29

Physical Description: 3.0 photographs

Scope and Content Note

Rainer and Steve Paxton. Photography credit: Robert R. McElroy; Al Giese.

Box 67

Rainer in Carolee Schneemann's Newspaper Event, Judson Church, 1963

Physical Description: 1.0 photograph

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Al Giese.

Box 67

Rainer in Gertrude Stein's What Happened directed by Al Carmines and Lawrence Kornfield, Judson Church, 1963

Physical Description: 1.0 contact sheets

Scope and Content Note

Pictured: Rainer, Aileen Passloff, John Baker.

Box 67

Shorter End of a Small Piece, 1963 Nov 20

Physical Description: 1.0 photograph

Scope and Content Note

Performance image, with structure by Charles Ross. Photography credit: Peter Moore.

Box 67

Treatment of a Peter Moore photograph by Billy Linich (?), circa 1963

Physical Description: 2.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Color and background have been manipulated. Original image is of Rainer in an improvisation with Trisha Brown (not pictured) at George Segal's farm, Yam Day, 1963. Two copies with differing captions. See also seven additional images in Box 86.

Box 67

Publicity photographs for dance concert, Judson Church, 1963 or 1964

Physical Description: 4.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Three prints and one contact sheet. Pictured: Phyllis Lamhut, Albert Reid, Rainer, William Davis.

Box 67

Room Service, Judson Church, 1963 Nov 11-12

Physical Description: 1.0 photograph

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Peter Moore.

Box 68

Terrain, Judson Church, 1963 Apr 27

Physical Description: 42.0 items

Box 68

Yvonne Rainer

Physical Description: 1.0 photograph

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Al Giese.

Box 68

Love section

Physical Description: 8.0 photographs

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Al Giese.

Box 68

Diagonal

Physical Description: 7.0 photographs

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Al Giese, Henry Genn.

Box 68

Play

Physical Description: 4.0 photographs

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Al Giese

Box 68

Duet Section

Physical Description: 8.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Rainer and Trisha Brown. Includes one photocopy of a photograph. Photographers: Al Giese, V. Sladon.

Box 68

Walking Solo

Physical Description: 2.0 photographs

Scope and Content Note

Judith Dunn and Steve Paxton performing with other dancers watching.

Box 68

Solo Section

Physical Description: 4.0 photographs

Scope and Content Note

Steven Paxton, Rainer, William Davis. Photography credit: Al Giese, Peter Moore.

Box 68

Bach

Physical Description: 4.0 photographs

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Al Giese.

Box 68

Death and Sleep

Physical Description: 1.0 photograph

Scope and Content Note

Albert Reid and Trisha Brown. Photography credit: Al Giese.

Box 68

Slow

Physical Description: 1.0 photograph

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Al Giese. "Bill and Judy."

Box 68

Fast

Physical Description: 1.0 photograph

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Al Giese.

Box 68

Rainer taking a bow at the end of Terrain

Physical Description: 1.0 photograph

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Al Giese.

Box 69

At My Body's House, State University College, New Paltz, New York, 1964 Jan 30

Physical Description: 1.0 photograph

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Peter Moore.

Box 69

Three Seascapes, 1st and 2nd sections, Stage 73, New York City, 1964 Mar 24

Physical Description: 3.0 photographs

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Peter Moore.

Box 69

Three Satie Spoons, Judson Church, 1964

Physical Description: 12.0 photographs

Scope and Content Note

Rainer and Phil Corner.

Box 69

Unidentified, 1964

Physical Description: 1.0 photograph

Box 69

Some Thoughts on Improvisation, Once Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, 1964 Feb 27

Physical Description: 1.0 photograph

Box 69

Dialogues, Stage 73, New York City, 1964 Feb 9

Physical Description: 10.0 photographs

Scope and Content Note

Deborah Hay, Lucinda Childs, Rainer, Judith Dunn. Photography credit: Peter Moore.

Box 69

Rainer, Robert Morris, Europe concert, 1964

Physical Description: 7.0 photographs

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Lütfi Ozkök. "Sculpture" written on the verso of one photograph.

Box 69

Part of a Sextet, 1964-1965

Box 69

Judson Church, 1964 Jun 30

Physical Description: 1.0 photograph

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Peter Moore.

Box 69

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, 1965 Mar 7

Physical Description: 3.0 photographs

Scope and Content Note

Rainer and Robert Morris. Photography credit: Peter Moore.

Box 69

Parts of Some Sextets,, 1965-1966

Box 69

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, 1965 Mar 7

Physical Description: 5.0 photographs

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Peter Moore.

Box 69

Rehearsal, New York City, 1965

Physical Description: 22.0 items

Scope and Content Note

In Rainer's and Robert Morris's loft. Photography credit: Al Giese, plus one from publicity dept of Wadsworth Atheneum. 15 prints and six contact sheets

Box 69

Judson Church, 1966 Jan 10

Physical Description: 5.0 photographs

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Phil MacMullan, Al Giese, Peter Moore.

Box 69

1966 Mar 25

Physical Description: 8.0 contact sheets

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Phil MacMullan.

Box 69

We Shall Run, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, 1965 Mar 7

Physical Description: 1.0 photograph

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Peter Moore. Deborah Hay, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Morris, Sally Gross, Joseph Schlichter, Tony Holder, Alex Hay.

Box 69

Untitled Solo, Judson Church, 1965

Physical Description: 3.0 photographs

Scope and Content Note

Rainer in mask. See contact sheets by Phil MacMullan, below.

Box 69

Untitled Solo, and Parts of Some Sextets?, Judson Church, 1965 Mar 25

Physical Description: 1.0 contact sheets

Scope and Content Note

Contact sheet with photographs of Untitled Solo and another performance with Rainer and Morris, dancing nude. Photography credit: Phil MacMullan.

Box 69

New untitled Partially Improvised Solo with Pink T-Shirt, Blue Bloomers, Red Ball, and Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, Wadsworth Atheneum, 1965 Mar 6

Physical Description: 1.0 photograph

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Peter Moore.

Box 69

Rainer back stage at Dick Higgins Opera, Hrusalk 1965 Dec

Physical Description: 1.0 photograph

Scope and Content Note

Rainer wearing a lead brassiere constructed by Robert Morris.

Box 69

George Brecht photo-collage

Physical Description: 1.0 photograph

Scope and Content Note

Incorporates an image of Rainer by Al Giese from rehearsal of Parts of Some Sextets, above. Label on verso: "from Chap VII of the Book of the Tumbler on Fire: For Yvonne Rainer."

Box 69

Rope Duet, Judson Church, 1 1966 Jan 10

Physical Description: 2.0 photographs

Scope and Content Note

Photography credit: Peter Moore.

Box 69

9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering, 1966

Physical Description: 1.0 photograph

Scope and Content Note

Group portrait outside the Armory, New York City. Photographic postcard with photograhy credit: Peter Moore.

Box 69

Carriage Discreteness, 1966 Oct 15

Physical Description: 22.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Rainer's dance performed as part of 9 Evenings. Eight photographs and seven sheets of paper with photocopies of 14 photographs. Photographers: Peter Moore, Elliott Landy.

Box 70

Trio A, 1965-1981

Physical Description: 22.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Most of the images are of Rainer alone.

Scope and Content Note

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