INVENTORY OF THE YVONNE RAINER PAPERS, 1933-2006, bulk 1959-2001
Finding aid prepared by Martha Steele
Descriptive Summary
Title: Yvonne Rainer papers
Date (inclusive): 1871-2006 (bulk 1959-2001)
Number: 2006.M.24
Creator/Collector:
Rainer, Yvonne, 1934-
Physical Description:
146.75 linear feet
(151 boxes, 8 flat file folders)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: Yvonne Rainer is an avant-garde American dancer, choreographer, filmmaker and writer. Her papers document her life as an artist
from the late 1950s through 2006, and include photographic material dated as early as 1933. Materials include dance scores;
programs and posters; photographic and audiovisual documentation of performances, rehearsals, and films; correspondence; writings,
including Rainer's feature-length film scripts; and critical response to her work.
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Language: Collection material is in
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Biographical / Historical Note
Choreographer, dancer, filmmaker and writer, Yvonne Rainer is celebrated as a pioneer of postmodern dance. Her often experimental
and challenging work, continuously produced for more than forty years, has been widely influential. Rainer was born in San
Francisco in 1934. In 1956 she moved to New York with painter Al Held to study acting, but the following year began studying
dance instead.
Rainer's early dance study was comprehensive. From 1957 to 1959 she studied modern dance with Edith Stephen, Afro-Cuban dance
with Emile Faustin and Syvilla Fort, and "body work" with Allan Wayne. She also took lessons at the Martha Graham school for
one year, and at Ballet Arts. In 1960 Rainer attended Ann Halprin's summer workshop in California; studied composition with
Robert Dunn, a composer and friend of John Cage; studied with James Waring; and began eight years of study with Merce Cuningham.
She was performing by 1960, began to present her own choreography in 1961, was a founding member of the Judson Dance Theater
in 1962, and by 1965 had established herself as an influential dancer and choreographer. She left dance for filmmaking in
1975, and returned to dance in 2000.
Rainer choreographed
Three Satie Spoons in Dunn's workshop, and performed it and
The Bells in 1961 at the Living Theater. In 1962, she and other members of Dunn's workshop formed the Judson Dance Theater collective,
which is widely viewed as the foundation of postmodern dance. Artists in other media also participated as dancers in the Judson
Theater performances, including visual artists Robert Rauschenberg, Red Grooms, Robert Morris, and Al Hansen. Rainer was active
in the Judson Dance Theater through 1966. She also formed her own company briefly and participated in the Grand Union dance
collective.
Between 1962 and 1975, Rainer presented her choreography throughout the United States and Europe. During this time she choreographed
over 40 works. Rainer's innovative work broke with dance tradition by incorporating ordinary, everyday movements. Critics
often situate Rainer's work from the 1960s within the context of Minimalism, Fluxus, and performance or event art. Rainer
articulated her approach to dance in her 1965 "No Manifesto": "No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and
magic and make believe no to glamour and transcendency of the star image no to the heroic no to the anti-heroic no to trash
imagery no to involvement of performer or spectator no to style no to camp no to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the
performer no to eccentricity no to moving or being moved." However, Rainer did not conceive of her choreography as purely
anti-metaphorical, stating in an interview that, "as a dancer I knew it was impossible: the body speaks no matter how you
try to suppress it." (
Art in America, July 1977).
Trio A, part of
The Mind is a Muscle, is perhaps Rainer's best-known work, and it has been performed by many other dancers since its creation.
Rainer began working in film in the mid-1960s, completing five films between 1966 and 1969. In 1968 she began to incorporate
visual materials, including film clips and slides of text and images, into her performances. From 1970 to 1974, her work in
performance and film overlapped. In 1975 she made a full transition to filmmaking and by 1996 had made seven feature-length
films.
Rainer's films address a range of issues, including sexuality, domestic and sexual conflict, U.S. imperialism, social privilege,
gender inequality, disease and aging, as well as everyday activity. The films also contain autobiographical material. Her
earliest three films are non-narrative, mixed media pieces about dance and performance that employ the collage methods of
her live performances. They combine reality and fiction, sound and visual elements to address social and political concerns.
Rainer's latest feature film,
MURDER and murder, featuring a lesbian couple as the main characters, has a more traditional narrative structure.
Rainer returned to dance in 2000 to choreograph work for the White Oak Dance Project, including the piece,
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, and a 2006 work based on Balanchine's AGON, presented at Dance Theater Workshop. In 2002 she also made the video,
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: Hybrid.
Rainer has published articles about her work and artistic and theoretical concerns throughout her career. Her books include
Yvonne Rainer: Work 1961-73 (l974),
The Films of Yvonne Rainer, a collection of her film scripts (1989),
A Woman Who...: Essays, Interviews, Scripts (1999), and
Feelings are a Fact of Life (2006).
Rainer has received numerous awards and fellowships, including two Guggenheim Fellowships (1969, 1988), three Rockefeller
Fellowships (1988, 1990, 1996), a MacArthur Fellowship (1990-1995), and a Wexner Prize (1995), as well as four Honorary Doctor
of Fine Arts degrees.
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers, except audiovisual materials, which are unavailable until reformatting is complete.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Yvonne Rainer papers, 1933-2006, bulk 1959-2001, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 2006.M.24.
Acquisition Information
Acquired in 2006 from Yvonne Rainer.
Processing history
Jocelyn Gibbs did preliminary processing, arranged the collection and wrote the box list in 2006. Martha Steele completed
the processing and wrote the finding aid from January 2007 to through March 2009. Andra Darlington edited the finding aid
in December 2009.
Reformatted Audiovisual Materials
DVD use copies are available for the following audiovisual materials: DVD2, DVD4, DVD5, DD1, V41, V61, V74-V83, V107, V113,
V124, F10, F24.
Separated Material
50 monographs and two serials were transferred to the library. These publications can be searched in the Library catalog by
doing a Provenance search under "Yvonne Rainer."
Scope and Content of Collection
The Yvonne Rainer Papers document Rainer's work as a dancer, choreographer, performer, film maker and writer, from the late
1950s to 2006. Collection materials include Rainer's personal notebooks; correspondence; work files documenting her choreography,
filmmaking and critical writing; materials documenting her touring, teaching activity, art exhibitions and film retrospectives;
programs and posters; reviews of her work; research files; photographic and audiovisual documentation of her milieu, including
posters and programs for works by contemporary artists and other ephemera. In Series I, Rainer's personal notebooks from 1949
to 2004 provide insight into her creative process. Her appointment books cover most years from 1970 to 2004. The correspondence
in Series II is from dancers, choreographers, other artists, critics and avant-garde associates. Notable correspondents include
Steve Paxton, Robert Morris, Trisha Brown, Joan Jonas, Simone Forti, Jasper Johns, Benjamin Buchloh, Paul Sharits, and Mark
Rappaport. There is also personal correspondence, including letters from Robert Morris during the years that they lived together
from 1964 to 1970, original letters written to her brother Ivan from 1952 through 1967, and letters from her neice, Ruth Rainer,
that document the encouragement and support Rainer provided during the years that her niece studied music and voice in Europe.
Series III contains materials resulting from Rainer's creative process, including descriptions of dances, directions for dancers,
dance scores, music scores, diagrams, drawings, programs (some annotated, some designed by Robert Morris, Steve Paxton and
Robert Rauschenberg), reviews, scripts for dancers, lists of objects used in dances, biographies of dancers, texts for wall
projections, small posters, film scripts (including drafts, some with annotation), shooting notes, production budgets, accounting
sheets, production schedules and notes, character studies, and music rights information. Series III also contains Rainer's
résumé and files of Rainer's published and unpublished writing, including annotated manuscripts and drafts. Additional documentation
of Rainer's works, such as photographs, programs and posters, is in Series V and VII.
Documentation of Rainer's touring, in Series IV, covers her tours in Europe in 1964, 1965 and 1967, and in the United States
from 1968 to 1997. Also in Series IV, conference documentation includes files on Rainer's work with Bérénice Reynaud on Sexism,
Colonialism, Misrepresentation: A Corrective Film Series and Conference, 1988-1989. The same series also contains Rainer's
teaching files from her work at the School of Visual Arts, New York, the Independent Study Program and the Whitney Museum
of American Art, as well as files relating to her lectures, exhibitions, and retrospective screenings of her films.
In Series V, programs and posters are arranged in a chronological sequence, beginning with a list of dance performances from
1961 to 1965. Programs and posters for non-Rainer performances and events are included, especially in the material from the
early 1960s, which include an announcement for Four Happenings (1963) by Allen Kaprow, Robot Opera (1964) by Nam June Paik,
and Robert Rauschenberg's 1952 exhibition, White Paintings, at Leo Castelli gallery. Also in Series V, the files of reviews
provide a history of the critical and popular reception of Rainer's work; Jill Johnston's reviews of dance performances in
the 1960s are particularly well represented here and in the research files in Series VII. Rainer's research files on people,
organizations and a range of topics show her political and social concerns and her exploration of the work of other artists.
The bulk of the photographic materials in Series VII documents Rainer's performances, including many photographs by Peter
Moore. There is also documentation of her films in the form of production stills and frame enlargements, and some family and
other personal photographs including (studio?) portraits of Rainer from the late 1950s, a photograph of Rainer with Andy Warhol
at a reception in the 1960s, photographs of Al Held's studio, and of Robert Morris. Also included are photographs from the
late 1950s and early 1960s of Rainer with Edith Stephan, in Louise Gilkes studio, in an off Broadway play, and at the Ann
Halprin Workshop. The slides are mostly those used in Rainer's performances, but also include portraits of Rainer from 1957
and 1958.
In Series VIII, audiovisual materials include audio and video recordings, film reels, DVD's and a laser disc. Among the films
are Rainer's short films from the 1960s and all of her feature films. Performances documented here include
Three Seascapes,
Room Service,
Trio A,
Trio A with Flags,
Trio A Pressured,
Continuous Project Altered Daily,
In the College,
Performance,
Connecticut Rehearsal, Grand Union performances (copies from the Fales Library, NYU),
We Shall Run,
Chair/Pillow,
Connecticut Rehearsal,
Dance Fractions for the West Coast,
White Oak Dance Project, and
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan. The sound recordings include interviews and music for performances. This series also includes a film possibly by Michael
Fajans and videos by others.
Oversize posters and fliers that cannot be thematically situated in other parts of the archive are described in Series IX.
Finally, writings about Rainer, including published interviews, comprise the last series of the collection, Series X.
Arrangement note
Arranged in ten series:
Series I. Notebooks, appointment and address books, 1949-2004;
Series II. Correspondence, 1953-2005;
Series III. Works, 1960-2005;
Series IV. Professional and exhibition files, 1964-2006;
Series V. Programs and reviews, 1959-2006;
Series VI. Topical research files, circa 1951-2005;
Series VII. Photography, 1933-2004;
Series VIII. Audiovisual materials, circa 1963-2003;
Series IX. Oversize materials, 1952-2004;
Series X. Writings about Rainer, dance and film, 1934-2006.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Brown, Trisha, 1936-
Buchloh, B. H. D.
Moore, Peter, 1932-1993
Morris, Robert, 1931-
Rainer, Yvonne, 1934-
Subjects - Topics
Choreographers--United States
Experimental films--United States
Feminist films--United States
Modern Dance--United States
Motion picture producers and directors--United States
Genres and Forms of Material
Audiocassettes
DVDs
Motion pictures
Negatives (photographic)
Photographic prints
Photographs, Original
Posters
Programs
Slides (photographs)
Videocassettes
Contributors
Brown, Trisha, 1936-
Buchloh, B. H. D.
Moore, Peter, 1932-1993
Morris, Robert, 1931-
Container List
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, 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 8
Circa 1965
Scope and Content Note
Includes
Parts of Some Sextets; transcribed excerpts from William Bentley's
Diaries.
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 12
1969
Scope and Content Note
Includes
Rose Fractions;
Performance Fraction for the West Coast.
Box 2, Folder 1
1971
Scope and Content Note
India journal.
Box 2, Folder 7
1977-1993
Scope and Content Note
Includes a separate sheet with description of a dream.
Box 3, Folder 2
1983-1987
Scope and Content Note
Includes a separate sheet with description of a dream.
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 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
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
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
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 6-9
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 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 29, Folder 5
Lesbians and cancer
Scope and Content Note
Information for distribution of film.
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 11
Script
Scope and Content Note
Photocopy from
Performance Art Journal.
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 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, Folder 14
Faust Foutu, Robert Duncan
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 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 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
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, 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, 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 34, Folder 3
Move/Martha,
2000
Scope and Content Note
Richard Move at Jacob's Pillow, with Rainer.
Box 34, Folder 7
White Space, Limerick, Ireland,
2001
Box 34, 135*
Conferences,
1978-1989, 2001
Box 34, Folder 9
Television, /Society/Art,
1980
Box 34, 135*
Sexism, Colonialism, Misrepresentation,
1988-1989
Scope and Content Note
Rainer worked on this conference with Bérénice Reynaud.
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 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 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 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
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 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 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 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
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, 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 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 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 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, 133*
1970-1971
Scope and Content Note
Also in Flat-file 4**.
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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 135*, Folder 7
Oversize poster: Matrilineage Women Art Change, Syracuse University,
Nov 9-17
Box 135*, Folder 8
Oversize poster: Women Make Waves, Sistren Theatre Collective,
Sep 26 - Oct 2
Box 38, 135*
1996-1997
Scope and Content Note
Also in Flatfile 6**.
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 135*, Folder 9
Oversize poster: Afterimage: Drawing Through Process, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,
Apr 10
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**.
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 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 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 2
Dance other than Judson,
1961-1962
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 8
Surplus Dance Theatre,
1964
Box 40, Folder 10
Dance other than Judson,
1964-1965
Box 40, Folder 12
Dance other than Judson,
1966
Box 40, Folder 15-16
1969
Scope and Content Note
Includes page of review excerpts titled: "Negative Dance Review excerpts."
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
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 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 9
AIDS and film,
circa 1989-1990
Scope and Content Note
Fear of Disclosure project.
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**.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 15
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner,
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 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 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 15
MacArthur Foundation,
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 11
The American Film Institute,
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 18
The American Film Institute,
1996
Box 54, Folder 20
Funding Information,
1996
Box 54, Folder 21
National Endowment for the Arts,
1996
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 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, 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 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 7
Hollywood - film,
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 13
Jameson, Fredric,
undated
Scope and Content Note
His review of books on Proust.
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 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 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 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 3
Millner, Sherry,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Material to support a promotion including her resume, letters and articles.
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 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 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 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 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 15
Lincoln Center,
1982-1984
Box 62, Folder 17
Playbill,
1987, 1992-1998
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 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 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**.
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
See also negatives in Box 94.
Box 70
Rainer's studio, New York City,
1965 Nov 26
Physical Description:
2.0 contact sheets
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore.
Box 70
Studio photographs,
1965
Physical Description:
3.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Zachary Freyman.
Box 70
1966 May 24
Physical Description:
3.0 items
Scope and Content Note
William Davis, David Gordon, and Rainer. Two photographs and one photographic postcard. Photography credit: Peter Moore.
Box 70
Convalescent Dance (
Trio A), Hunter Playhouse, Angry Arts Week,
1967 Feb 2
Physical Description:
2.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore.
Box 70
Final sequence of
The Mind is a Muscle,
1968
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Box 70
People's Flag Show, Judson Church,
1970 Nov 9
Physical Description:
10.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore.
Box 70
First section of
The Mind is a Muscle, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design,
1973
Physical Description:
5.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Two photographic prints, three contact sheets.
Box 70
Portland Center for Visual Arts,
1973
Physical Description:
2.0 photographs
Box 70
Theater for the New City, New York City,
16 Mar 1973
Physical Description:
2.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
John Erdman performing during
This is the Story of a.... Photographer: Babette Mangolte.
Box 70
During conversation with Stephen Koch,
1975 ?
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Box 70
Stephen Koch,
1975 ?
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Box 70
Studio photograph of Rainer,
1981
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Box 70
Performance Demonstration, Library and Museum of Performing Arts,
1968 Sep 16
Box 70
Trio A during
Performance Demonstration
1968
Physical Description:
6.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Steve Paxton, Rainer, Becky Arnold. Photography credit: Peter Moore.
Box 70
Rehearsal
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore.
Box 70
Slides of stairs projected during performance
1968
Physical Description:
2.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore.
Performance Demonstration (?),
1968 ?
Physical Description:
1.0 contact sheets
Scope and Content Note
One contact sheet. Negative sheet given this tentative identification; contact sheet was grouped with contact sheets for 1970,
1971 performances. See also negative sheet in Box 94.
Box 71
The Mind is a Muscle,
1966-1968
Scope and Content Note
See also
Trio A in Box 70.
Box 71
Judson Church,
1966
Physical Description:
3.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
William Davis, David Cordon, Rainer, Becky Arnold, Barbara Dilley, Peter Saul, Photography credit: Peter Moore.
Box 71
Trio A, 1st version of
The Mind is a Muscle, Judson Church,
1966 May 24
Physical Description:
2.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore
Box 71
Trio B, 2nd part from 1st version of
The Mind is a Muscle, Judson Church,
1966 May 24
Physical Description:
2.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore
Box 71
Mat rehearsal, for New School,
1967 Sep
Physical Description:
2.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Becky Arnold, William Davis for Choreo-concerts at the New School. Photography credit: Julie Abeles.
Box 71
Riverside Church,
1968 Oct 19
Physical Description:
2.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Steve Paxton in
Trio film, and Becky Arnold, Barbara Dilley on the floor. Photography credit: Peter Moore.
Box 71
Group photo before touring to Brandeis University,
1968
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Box 71
Location unknown
1968
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Ted Wester.
Box 71
Anderson Theater, New York City,
1968 Apr 11
Trio B (Running) rehearsal
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Scope and Content Note
Barbara Dilley, Becky Arnold, Gay Delangle. Photography credit: Julie Abeles.
Box 71
Trio B, 2nd part, rehearsal
Physical Description:
6.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Julie Abeles.
Box 71
Trio A,
The Mind is a Muscle
Physical Description:
9.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Barbara Dilley, Becky Arnold, Gay Delanghe watch Steve. Photography credit: Peter Moore.
Box 71
Act
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore.
Box 71
Mat
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore. Becky finishes "Mat" as Paxton, Gordon, and Rainer watch
Box 71
Trio B, 2nd part
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore.
Box 71
Stairs, and
Mat, rehearsal
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore. Becky (and Bill Davis) finish Mat as 2nd routine of Stairs occurs.
Box 71
Stairs and
Mat, performance
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore.
Box 71
Stairs, rehearsal
Physical Description:
2.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Julie Abeles.
Box 71
Contact sheets
Physical Description:
6.0 contact sheets
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Julie Abeles.
Box 71
Stairs, rehearsal and contact sheet
Physical Description:
4.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Rehearsal and performance.
Box 71
Stairs, performance
Physical Description:
8.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore (six photographs) and Julie Abeles (two photographs).
Box 71
Before
Mat, performance
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Scope and Content Note
Becky Arnold (?) perhaps with Bill Davis before they do "Mat." Photography credit: Ted Wester.
Box 71
Act
Physical Description:
5.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore (three photographs), and Ted Wester (two photographs).
Box 71
Horses
Physical Description:
2.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Ted Wester (one photograph) and Peter Moore (one photograph).
Box 71
Lecture
Physical Description:
3.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore (two photographs).
Box 71
Film
Physical Description:
5.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore (two photographs) and Julie Abeles (three photographs).
Box 71
Film, rehearsal at Judson Church gym,
1968
Physical Description:
6.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Two contact sheets, seven photographs. Photography credit: Julie Abeles. [Rehearsal for Anderson Theater performance?]
Box 72
North East Passing, Goddard College,
1968
Physical Description:
40.0 items
Scope and Content Note
36 prints and three contact sheets, one of which is annotated. Photographers: D. Koolish; Goldenson.
Box 73
Rose Fractions, Billy Rose Theater, New York City,
1969 Feb 3
Physical Description:
30.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Most images seem to be of rehearsals, on the Billy Rose stage. Performance included
North East Passing. The last photograph in this section is a group portrait of dancers, after a rehearsal. Photography credit: Peter Moore.
Box 73
Performance Fractions for the West Coast, Vancouver,
1969 ?
Physical Description:
4.0 contact sheets
Box 73
Line,
1969
Physical Description:
10.0 images
Scope and Content Note
Ten stills from
Line, with Susan Marshal, a 16mm film shot by Phil Niblock.
Box 74
Connecticut Composite, Connecticut College,
1969 Jul 19
Scope and Content Note
Connecticut Composite was an early version of
Continuous Project-Altered Daily, performed at Connecticut College, New London, for their American Dance Festival, 1969 July 19.
Box 74
Michael Fajans photographer, rehearsal
Physical Description:
13.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Stills from a film by Fajans. See also Box 94 for 4x5 negatives (12). See also the video, films.
Box 74
Ellen Levine photographer
Physical Description:
27.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
13 of the prints seem to be of rehearsals. Photography credit: Ellen Levene. See also Box 94 for 35mm. negatives.
Box 74
Unidentified photographer
Physical Description:
14.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Includes view of "Chair-Pillow" section. Performers: Becky Arnold, David Gordon, Rainer, Douglas Dunn, Barbara Dilley. Photography
credit: Unidentified.
Box 74
Continuous Project - Altered Daily
1969-1970
Scope and Content Note
Continuous Project - Altered Daily was performed at Amherst (1969) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1970). See negatives for a performance for
Continuous Project-Altered Daily at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1970, by photographer Susan Horowitz in Box 94. See videos and films.
Box 74
Continuous Project - Altered Daily, Amherst,
1969
Box 74
Contact sheets
Physical Description:
19.0 contact sheets
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Susan Horwitz. See Box 94 for negatives.
Box 74
Group imitating sports group photos
Physical Description:
2.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Susan Horwitz.
Box 74
Continuous Project - Altered Daily, Whitney Museum of Art,
1970 Apr
Physical Description:
20.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore; see also Box 79 for his contact sheets.
Box 74
Continuous Project - Altered Daily, undated
1970?
Physical Description:
6.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Selected images from contact sheets. From the Whitney Museum performance? Photography credit: Susan Horwitz.
Box 75
M-Walk (from
The Mind is a Muscle),
1970 May2
Physical Description:
2.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Street action protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia.
Box 75
Douglas College,
1970 Nov 6
Physical Description:
34.0 contact sheets
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: James Klosty. Three sets of contact sheets. See also negatives in Box 94.
Box 75
New York University
1970-1971
Box 75
1970 Nov 22
Physical Description:
6.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Three photographs, three contact sheets. Photographer: Peter Moore
Box 75
Downstairs,
1970 Nov 22
Physical Description:
35.0 contact sheets
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Susan Horwitz (and ?). See also negatives in Box 94.
Box 75
Upstairs,
1971 Jan 4
Physical Description:
10.0 contact sheets
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Susan Horwitz (and ?). See also negatives in Box 94.
Box 75
1971 Jan 4
Physical Description:
3.0 items
Scope and Content Note
One photograph and two contact sheets. Photographer: Peter Moore.
Box 75
Location and date unknown,
1970 or 1971 ?
Physical Description:
4.0 contact sheets
Scope and Content Note
See also negatives in Box 94.
Box 76
Unidentified,
1970? 1971?
Physical Description:
4.0 contact sheets
Scope and Content Note
Unidentified performance, three contact sheets, including a contact sheet with 35 views of Rainer, Trisha Brown, a woman,
two men and two children next to brick wall and in an apartment (?).
Box 76
Emmanuel Midtown YM-YWHA, N.Y.C.,
1971 May 16
Box 76
Susan Horowitz photographer
Physical Description:
18.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
See also four negatives in Box 94.
Box 76
James Klosty photographer
Physical Description:
13.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Five photographs, eight contact sheets.
Box 76
Photographer unknown
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Scope and Content Note
David Gordon and Yvonne Rainer.
Box 76
1971
Location unknown,
1971
Physical Description:
12.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Small. 3.5 x 5" photographs. See also color photograph in Box 90.
Box 76
Numerous Frames, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN,
1971 May 29
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Box 77
Hofstra University,
1972 Mar 21
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Scope and Content Note
See also Box 130*.
Box 77
Peter Moore photographer
Physical Description:
3.0 photographs
Box 77
Elisabeth Mangolt photographer
Physical Description:
7.0 photographs
Box 77
Whitney Museum,
1972 Apr 21
Box 77
Peter Moore photographer
Physical Description:
9.0 photographs
Box 77
Elisabeth Mangolt photographer
Physical Description:
34.0 photographs
Box 84
Art piece in the form of a small box, made for Rainer
Physical Description:
1.0 item
Scope and Content Note
Cardboard box, 10.5 x 7.5 x 2 cm, incorporating four photographs of the dance piece
Performance, two from the performance at Hofstra University and two from the performance at the Whitney Museum of Art. Also inside the
box are newspaper clippings from texts declaring love and admiration.
Box 77
Lives of Performers,
1972
Physical Description:
27.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Frame enlargements.
Box 78
This Is the Story of a Woman Who...,
1972, 1973
Box 78
Festival D'Automne á Paris, Musée de la Vile, Paris,
1972 Nov 15
Physical Description:
6.0 contact sheets
Scope and Content Note
See also negatives in Box 94.
Box 78
Theater for the New City,
1973 Mar 16
Box 78
Photography credit: Babette Mangolte
Physical Description:
75.0 items
Scope and Content Note
12 contact sheets, 60 photographs.
Box 78
Photographer unknown
Physical Description:
3.0 photographs
Box 78
Photography credit: Peter Moore,
1973 ?
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Scope and Content Note
Theater for the New City?
Box 79
Three Satie Spoons, Theater for the New City,
1973
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Box 79
Inner Appearances,
1973
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore.
Box 79
Film About a Woman Who...,
1974
Physical Description:
15.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Frame enlargements.
Box 79
Kristina (For a ...Novella),
1974 or 1975
Physical Description:
16.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Nine photographs, five contact sheets of either the performance at S.U.N.Y., Purchase, 1974 Oct 11, or the Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, 1975 May 17 and 18. Photographer: Babette Mangolte.
Box 79
Kristina Talking Pictures,
1976
Physical Description:
20.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Babette Mangolte. 17 frame enlargements, one contact sheet.
Box 79
Group portrait with Rainer, Trisha Brown and 10 other people,
1976
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Babette Mangolt. Photograph taken on a roof top with cityscape in background.
Box 79
Tabea Blumenschein,
1974 or 1975?
Physical Description:
2.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
On back of photographs: Copyright, Ulrike Ottinger. See also poster in Box 144*, f.5.
Box 80-81
Peter Moore contact prints,
1963-1973
Physical Description:
2.0 photographs
Box 80
1963-1968
Physical Description:
49.0 contact sheets
Box 81
1969-1973
Physical Description:
51.0 contact sheets
Box 82
Journeys From Berlin / 1971,
1978-1980
Physical Description:
38.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Frame enlargements, last in group labeled "not good."
Box 82
We Shall Run (1963), Bennington College,
1980
Physical Description:
6.0 contact sheets
Box 82
The Man Who Envied Women,
1984
Physical Description:
18.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Frame enlargements.
Box 82
Privilege,
1990
Physical Description:
53.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Frame enlargements and production stills; 33 photographs, eight contact sheets. See also, twelve Polaroid photographs in Box
91; two sheets of negative strips in Box 94.
Box 83
MURDER and murder, frame enlargements and production stills,
1996
Physical Description:
39.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes 38 photographs and one contact sheet. See also negatives in Box 94 and color photographs in Box 90.
Box 83
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan,
2000
Physical Description:
7.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Stephanie Berger. See also four color photographs in Box 92.
Box 83
Yvonne Rainer by Peter Moore, exhibition at Bound and Unbound, New York City,
2001
Physical Description:
27.0 items
Scope and Content Note
23 of the photographs for this exhibition are reproduced on post card exhibition notices.
Box 83
Unidentified photographs
Physical Description:
41.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photograph of man at podium pouring a glass of water; close-up of a face and hand; 35 photographs numbered for a publication
on Rainer's work; photograph by Peter Moore of five musicians, four performing on keyboards and one playing marimbas (1971);
five photographs of unidentified men and women on a carpeted staircase. Photographer: Babette Mangolte. See also 8 x 10 in.
negatives in Box 94.
Box 85-89
Large format photographs,
1963-1999
Scope and Content Note
Photographs too large to fit into a binder, organized chronologically.
Box 85, Folder 2
Rainer made up for Steve Paxton's
English, Judson Church dressing room,
1963
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Box 85, Folder 5-9
Terrain ,
1963-1983
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Box 85, Folder 5
Slow,
1983
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore. Trisha Brown and three other dancers.
Box 85, Folder 6
Play,
1963
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Al Hansen.
Box 85, Folder 7
Ball and Solo,
1963
Physical Description:
2.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Al Hansen.
Box 85, Folder 8-9
Love,
1963
Physical Description:
4.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Rainer and William Davis. Photography credit: Al Hansen.
Box 86, Folder 1
Treatment of a Peter Moore photograph by Billy Linich (name?),
circa 1963
Physical Description:
9.0 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 different captions.
Box 86, Folder 3
Rainer and Robert Morris concert, Künstakademie Düsseldorf,
1964
Physical Description:
3.0 photographs
Box 86, Folder 5
Three Seascapes, Stage 73,
1964
Physical Description:
2.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Rainer performing.
Box 86, Folder 8
Andy Warhol, Rainer and Barbara Rose,
1964
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: David McCabe.
Box 87, Folder 1-5
Trio A,
1965
Physical Description:
10.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Zachary Freyman. Two copies each of five images.
Box 88, Folder 1-3
Continuous Project - Altered Daily, Whitney Museum of Art,
1970 Apr
Physical Description:
21.0 contact sheets
Scope and Content Note
Enlarged contact sheets. Photographer: Susan Horwitz. See also prints and contact sheets in Box 73, and negatives in Box 94.
Box 88, Folder 4
Grand Union Dreams, 14th Street YMHA,
1971
Physical Description:
21.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: James Klosty.
Box 88, Folder 5
Inner Appearances,
1973
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Box 89, Folder 1
Kristina Talking Pictures,
1976
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Scope and Content Note
Copy photo of a magazine or newspaper image of James Cagney.
Box 89, Folder 2
Journeys From Berlin/1971,
1978
Physical Description:
2.0 photographs
Box 89, Folder 3
Trio A,
1981
Physical Description:
4.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Three photographs mounted on board. Photographer: Jack Mitchell.
Box 89, Folder 4
Trio A Pressured,
1999
Physical Description:
19.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Christian Uhl.
Box 85-87, 89
Personal photographs,
1958-1969, undated
Box 85, Folder 1
Portraits of Rainer,
circa 1958?
Physical Description:
2.0 photographs
Box 86, Folder 2
Lucinda Childs portrait,
1963
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Box 86, Folder 4
Portraits of Rainer, Stockholm,
circa 1964
Physical Description:
3.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Two photographs, one contact sheet.
Box 86, Folder 6
Rainer in studio,
circa 1964
Physical Description:
2.0 items
Scope and Content Note
One photograph and one contact sheet. Photographer: Jim Gale.
Box 86, Folder 7
Rainer and Robert Morris at the Whitney Museum during installation of his show,
circa 1964
Physical Description:
2.0 photographs
Box 87, Folder 6
Rainer and Steve Paxton,
circa 1969
Physical Description:
2.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Two prints of the same image.
Box 89, Folder 5
Portrait of Rainer, undated
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Box 130*
Oversize photographs,
1972-1973
Box 130*, Folder 1
Performance, Hofstra University,
1972
Box 130*, Folder 2
Personal photographs,
1972-1973
Scope and Content Note
Photographs of Rainer by Babette Mangolte.
Subseries VII.b.
Color photographs,
circa 1962-2004
Physical Description:
1.5 linear feet
General Physical Description note:
(5 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Color photography includes mostly personal photographs and production stills from her films.
Box 90
Rainer in George Sugarman's studio,
circa 1962
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Box 90
Rainer and James Lee Byers in Byers event at the Green Gallery, New York,
1963
Physical Description:
2.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten note on reverse: Y. Rainer Dance ('63). Film by Andy Warhol.
Box 90
Personal photographs,
1970-2004
Physical Description:
19.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
The subjects of the photographs include: Rainer and Ivan Rainer, early 1970s; undated passport photograph; Rainer and Andy
Warhol, early 1970s; Rainer at the Kennedy Center, 1982; Rainer in Japan, 1991; Rainer at the Musée d'Orsay, 1993; Rainer
on the set of
MURDER and murder, 1995; Rainer with John Greson in South Africa, 1997; Rainer in Portugal, 1997; Rainer near Jacob's Pillow, 2002; Richard
Move at Jacob's Pillow, 2002; Rainer congratulating Su Friedrich after premier of
Odds of Recovery, 2004; unidentified photographs.
Box 90
Letter and photographs from Michael Fajans,
1974 Dec 2
Physical Description:
11.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Letter from the painter (and former dancer) Michael Fajans, written on the backs of four photographs of his paintings, with
six additional photographs of his paintings; also includes one Polaroid photograph taken outside at night.
Box 90
Grand Union Dreams,
1971
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Scope and Content Note
See also small 3.5 x 5" photographs in Box 75, taken in same location.
Box 90
Trio A,
1978 and 2001
Physical Description:
2.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Rehearsal for film of
Trio A, Merce Cunningham Studio, 1978;
Trio A performed by Rainer in a Roman amphitheater in southern Turkey, 2001.
Box 90
Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale),
1994 Jan
Physical Description:
13.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photographs of Rainer at the Viennale, at reception(s) (?) and standing behind a podium.
Box 90
MURDER and murder, production stills, sets and locations,
1995
Physical Description:
78.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes 28 photographs and 49 Polaroids.
Box 90
Barbara Haas,
1995 ?
Physical Description:
9.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Personal photographs of Barbara Haas, cast member of
MURDER and murder.
Box 91
Privilege,
circa 1990
Physical Description:
114.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Polaroids (92) and color (22) snapshots taken during shooting. See also Box 81.
Box 92
The American Century, artists shoot, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City,
1999 Sep 23
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Scope and Content Note
Photograph of 82 artists in the exhibition "The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000" at the Whitney Museum of American
Art, 1999. Photography credit: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.
Box 92
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan,
2000
Physical Description:
9.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Two color photographs and two color copies. See also 12 photographs in Box 83.
Box 92
White Oak Plantation, Florida,
2000
Physical Description:
28.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Group of 12 photographs with "Deborah Hay" written on the back of one photograph; group of 16 photographs, perhaps also by
Deborah Hay (?). See also color negatives in Box 94.
Box 92
Bard College,
2000 ?
Physical Description:
5.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Personal photographs of Rainer and man and woman (in four prints), and Rainer alone, on deck next to clap board building.
Box 93
Trio A,
circa 1998
Physical Description:
27.0 items
Scope and Content Note
18 photographs and nine contact sheets of Rainer at Bard College studio practicing
Trio A. Photographer: M.L. Kurtin. Includes card from Kurtin.
Box 131*, Folder 1
Rainer with cat in her loft, undated
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Box 131*, Folder 2
Rainer and a man playing catch in a white room, undated
Physical Description:
1.0 photograph
Box 131*, Folder [2 or 3-6?]
Rainer in a dance studio, undated
Physical Description:
4.0 photographs
Box 131*, Folder 2
Story of a Woman Who..., undated
Physical Description:
4.0 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Interpositives for posters, flyers.
Subseries VII.c.
Negatives,
1964-2000
Physical Description:
0.25 linear feet
General Physical Description note:
(1 box)
Scope and Content Note
Most of the negatives document Rainer's dance performances and rehearsals, including
Trio A,
North East Passing,
Performance Demonstration,
The Mind is a Muscle,
Connectocut Composite,
Continuous Project-Altered Daily,
War,
Grand Union Dreams and
Story of a Woman Who.... Films documented in this section include
Journeys from Berlin/ 1971,
Privilege and
MURDER and murder.
Box 94
Trio A, San Francisco,
1964
Physical Description:
2.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Two sheets of negatives.
Box 94
North East Passing, "printed slides,"
undated
Physical Description:
4.0 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: David Vivian. Negatives are 4 x 5.
Box 94
Performance Demonstration (?),
1968 (?)
Physical Description:
1.0 item
Scope and Content Note
One negative sheet. See also contact sheets for 1970 and 1971 performances in Box 71.
Box 94
The Mind is a Muscle,
1968
Physical Description:
8.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Negative strips copied onto 8 x 10 negative sheets. Photographer: Peter Moore. See also Box 80 for corresponding contact sheets.
Box 94
Connecticut Composite, Connecticut College,
1969
Box 94
Rehearsal,
1969 July 12
Physical Description:
12.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Negatives are 4 x 5 in. See also Box 74 for nine photographic prints.
Box 94
Photography credit: Ellen Levene,
1969
Physical Description:
6.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Negative sheets. One roll of film per negative sheet. See also Box 74 for photographs.
Box 94
Continuous Project, Altered Daily,
1969-1970
Box 94
Amherst,
1969
Physical Description:
18.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Negative sheets. Susan Horwitz. See Box 74 for contact sheets.
Box 94
Continuous Project, Scores,
1969-1970
Physical Description:
3.0 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Negatives are 4 x 5 in.
Box 94
Whitney Museum of American Art,
1970 Mar 31 - 1970 Apr 2
Physical Description:
15.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Susan Horowitz.
Box 94
Douglas College,
1970 Nov 6
Physical Description:
24.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: James Klosty. 24 pages of negative strips. See also contact sheets in Box 75.
New York University,
1970-1971
Box 94
Downstairs,
1970
Physical Description:
18.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Susan Horwitz (and ?), 18 pages of negative strips. See also contact sheets in Box 75.
Box 94
Upstairs,
1971 Jan 4
Physical Description:
5.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Five pages of negative strips. See also contact sheets in Box 75.
Box 94
Location and date unknown,
1970 or 1971 ?
Physical Description:
2.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Two pages of negative strips. See also contact sheets in Box 75.
Box 94
Grand Union Dreams, Emmanuel Midtown YM-YWHA, New York City,
1971
Physical Description:
9.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Susan Horowitz. Four negatives are 8 x 10 and 5 negatives are 35 mm. See also photographs in Box 76.
Box 94
Story of a Woman Who ...,
1972-1973
Box 94
Festival D'Automne á Paris, Musée de la Ville, Paris,
1972 Nov 15
Physical Description:
4.0 items
Scope and Content Note
4 pages of negative strips. See also contact sheets in Box 78.
Box 94
Theater for the New City, New York City,
1973 Mar 16
Physical Description:
2.0 items
Scope and Content Note
2 pages of negative strips.
Box 94
Journeys From Berlin/1971,
1978-1980
Physical Description:
10.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Four 2.5 x 3.25 in. negatives and one 35 mm film strip in six sections. The film strip shows images of a hand holding a stone.
Box 94
Privilege,
1990
Physical Description:
2.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Two pages of negative strips. See also production stills and frame enlargements in Box 82.
Box 94
MURDER and murder,
1996
Physical Description:
2.0 items
Scope and Content Note
One page of negative strips for roll no. 4922 and one page of negative strips and film strips.
Box 94
Rainer in Portugal,
1997
Physical Description:
2.0 items
Scope and Content Note
One negative is unidentified.
Box 94
White Oak Plantation, Florida,
2000 Jan
Physical Description:
2.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Two sheets of color negatives. Photographer: Deborah Hay? Film roll number 13956, 63823 and 63824.
Box 94
Unidentified,
Scope and Content Note
Five images of individual men and women on a carpeted staircase. Photographer: Babette Mangolte. See also photographs in Box
83.
Subseries VII.d.
Slides,
1957-1976
Physical Description:
1.0 linear feet
General Physical Description note:
(4 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
This section includes portraits of Rainer from 1957-1958, slides used in performances (including
North East Passing,
Lives of Performers and
Performance Around a Woman Who... and
Grand Union Dreams), slides from the exhibition Radical Juxtapositions, and personal slides.
Slide identifications were taken from notation on slide boxes.
Box 95
Portraits of Rainer,
1957-1958
Physical Description:
5.0 slides
Box 95
"Running Dance" diagram for
We Shall Run,
1963
Physical Description:
1.0 transparency
Scope and Content Note
Drawing / diagram from notebook. See also Box 1, folder 5.
Box 95
Carriage Discreteness,
1966
Physical Description:
10.0 slides
Box 95
Slides used in
North East Passing, Goddard College,
1968
Physical Description:
315.0 slides
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: David Vivian
Box 95
Billy Rose, "Lenny Bruce et. al.,"
1969 ?
Physical Description:
20.0 slides
Box 95
Group Hoist,
Continuous Project-Altered Daily,
1969 or 1970
Physical Description:
51.0 slides
Box 95
Slides of
Grand Union Dreams and text slides,
1972
Physical Description:
39.0 slides
Scope and Content Note
Used for
Performance?
Box 95
Ruth Rainer,
1972
Physical Description:
1.0 slide
Scope and Content Note
Rainer's niece.
Box 96
New photos for John Renfrew,
undated
Physical Description:
27.0 slides
Box 96
Unidentified slides,
undated
Physical Description:
4.0 slides
Box 96
Stairs,
The Mind is a Muscle
Physical Description:
237.0 slides
Box 97
Inner Appearances,
circa 1972-1973
Physical Description:
47.0 slides
Box 97
A Woman Who...,
1973 or 1974
Physical Description:
114.0 slides
Scope and Content Note
Includes slides from
Film About a Woman Who... and
Performance Around a Woman Who....
Box 97
Kristina (For a Opera),
1975
Physical Description:
26.0 slides
Box 97
Kristina Talking Pictures,
1976
Physical Description:
86.0 slides
Box 98
Italian postcards
Physical Description:
9.0 slides
Box 97
Pergamum Altar
Physical Description:
5.0 slides
Box 97
Solar system
Physical Description:
8.0 slides
Scope and Content Note
Slides from Hale Observatories.
Box 97
Duplicates, old photos
Physical Description:
39.0 slides
Box 97
Unidentified slides originally in metal slide box
Physical Description:
84.0 slides
Box 98
Psycho stills
Physical Description:
36.0 slides
Scope and Content Note
Stills from the shower scene in Hitchcock's film Psycho, used in
Film About A Woman Who ....
Box 98
Travel,
Physical Description:
28.0 slides
Series VIII.
Audiovisual materials,
circa 1963-2003
Physical Description:
67.25 linear feet
(82 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
The audiovisual series documents Rainer's dance performances and rehearsals, music for dance performances, Rainer's films,
interviews of Rainer, lectures, and videos by others. Materials are organized by format: sound cassettes, sound tape reels,
video recordings, DVDs, a laser disc, and motion picture films.
Audiovisual materials are unavailable until reformatting is complete. Contact the repository for information regarding access.
Use copies are indicated in container list below. Items were numbered by the repository.
Box 99-100
Sound cassettes,
1977-1990 and undated
Box 99, Item C1
Frank Muggia,
1985 May 8
Physical Description:
1.0 sound cassette
Box 99, Item C2
Trisha [Brown] - Rainer,
1985 Aug 10
Physical Description:
1.0 sound cassette
Box 99, Item C3
Rainer CAA (College Art Association) talk,
undated
Physical Description:
1.0 sound cassette
Scope and Content Note
Other side labeled: Vito Acconci, Joan Jonas.
Box 99, Item C4
Peter Wollen ABC Cinema,
undated
Physical Description:
1.0 sound cassette
Box 99, Item C5
Rainer - [Steve] Paxton,
undated
Physical Description:
1.0 sound cassette
Box 99, Item C6
Rainer,
1977
Physical Description:
1.0 sound cassette
Box 99, Item C7
David Misam,
undated
Physical Description:
1.0 sound cassette
Box 99, Item C8
Judson Interview,
1981
Physical Description:
1.0 sound cassette
Box 99, Item C9a-c
[Steve] Paxton - Rainer,
Dec 1974
Physical Description:
3.0 sound cassettes
Scope and Content Note
3 sound cassettes of 3. Sides of cassettes numbered 3-7.
Box 99, Item C10
Lives of Performers,
undated
Physical Description:
1.0 sound cassette
Box 99, Item C11
Susan Love, Dana Farber,
1985 Jun 17
Physical Description:
1.0 sound cassette
Box 99, Item C12
Tuba Miram Requiem Berliosz,
undated
Physical Description:
1.0 sound cassette
Box 99, Item C13
Unidentified with ornate purple label of shell designs,
undated
Physical Description:
1.0 sound cassette
Box 99, Item C14
David Misam,
undated
Physical Description:
1.0 sound cassette
Box 100, Item C15a-b
Gloria-Larkspur,
1988 Jan 16
Physical Description:
2.0 sound cassettes
Box 100, Item C16
Audrey and part of Gloria Martocchia,
undated
Physical Description:
1.0 sound cassette
Box 100, Item C17
Cath Kenneally talking to Rainer, Adelaide,
1990 Aug 13
Physical Description:
1.0 sound cassette
Box 100, Item C18
Yvonne Rainer and Ramon Koval, Melbourne,
1990 Aug 7
Physical Description:
1.0 sound cassette
Scope and Content Note
Interview on 3LO Australian Radio.
Box 100, Item C19
La Jolla Museum, Performance,
1988 Jan 26
Physical Description:
1.0 sound cassette
Box 100, Item C20
Tea for Two, Rainer, Simon Forti, a conversation,
1980
Physical Description:
1.0 sound cassette
Scope and Content Note
M. R. benefit.
Box 100, Item C21
Suskind, interview with Sharon Hunt,
undated
Physical Description:
1.0 sound cassette
Box 100, Item C22
Helen Meglen,
1988 Jan 24
Physical Description:
1.0 sound cassette
Box 100, Item C23
[Australia Radio Talk]
undated
Physical Description:
1.0 sound cassette
Box 101-102
Sound tape reels,
1968-1975 and undated
Box 101.a, Item R1
Cal Arts,
1975 Feb 13
General Physical Description note:
1 sound tape reel : 7 ½ ips, stereo, 7 in.
Box 101.a, Item R2
Dilexi #8 Rainer 5 cuts,
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 sound tape reel : 7 in.
Box 101.a, Item R3
Rainer Oct 70 Gym. choreography,
1970 Oct
General Physical Description note:
1 sound tape reel : 7 in., ½ in. tape
Scope and Content Note
With note: return to Robert Devine.
Box 101.a, Item R4
John Talking,
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 sound tape reel : 7 in.
Box 101.b, Item R5a-b
Unlabeled,
undated
General Physical Description note:
2 sound tape reels : 7 in.
Box 101.b, Item R6
Yvonne tape #2, Dreams from
In the College,
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 sound tape reel : 7 ½ ips, 7 in.
Box 101.b, Item R7
Performance Demonstration #1,
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 sound tape reel : 7 in.
Scope and Content Note
Written on box: Music lecture, Tiomkin,
Trio A Lecture, Rehearsal lecture and door banging Chamber Bros.
Box 101.c, Item R8
North East Passing, Dance C tape D,
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 sound tape reel : 7 in.
Box 101.c, Item R9
Unlabeled except for a large number "1,"
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 sound tape reel : 7 in.
Box 101.c, Item R10
KDS möte Sarabrottskolan,
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 sound tape reel : 7 in.
Scope and Content Note
Large number "2" on front of box.
Box 101.c, Item R11
Bessie Smith Empty Bed Blues I, II,
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 sound tape reel : 7 in.
Box 101, Item R12
Kristina,
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 sound tape reel : 7 in.
Box 101, Item R13
On tape - T-Y-R, BFVF [Boston Film Video Foundation?],
1979 Dec 6
General Physical Description note:
1 sound tape reel : 7 in.
Scope and Content Note
[Reel without box].
Box 101, Item R14
"Parts of the Body" lecture,
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 sound tape reel : 7 in.
Box 101, Item R15
Lecture Demo II,
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 sound tape reel (13 ½ min.) : 7 in.
Scope and Content Note
On back of box: Tiomkin, Buzzer, Horses, Rainer.
Box 101, Item R16
Music for Duet section from
Terrain (1963), Philip Corner and Bach ("Ich Habe Genug") music,
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 sound tape reel : 7 in.
Box 102.a, Item R17-R18
North East Passing,
undated
Box 102.a, Item R19
Rainer,
We Shall Run, Berlioz,
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 sound tape reel : 5 in.
Box 102.a, Item R20
Morris - Rainer 9 1/2,
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 sound tape reel : 5 in.
Box 102.a, Item R21
Tape for
Performance Fractions for the West Coast,
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 sound tape reel : 5 in.
Box 102.a, Item R22
Seascapes [crossed-out],
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 sound tape reel : 5 in.
Box 102.a, Item R23
Gordon Mumma. Rainer music, Tape A,
1968 Jul
General Physical Description note:
1 sound tape reel : 7 ½ ips, 5 in.
Scope and Content Note
Boulder, Colorado, Mexico City.
Box 102.a, Item R24
Gymnopedia - Corner Greig Sonatas,
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 sound tape reel : 5 in.
Box 102.a, Item R25
"Sleep" tape for Corridor Solo the first section of Part of a Sextet,
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 sound tape reel : 5 in.
Scope and Content Note
Performed by Rainer and Robert Morris.
Box 102.a, Item R26
Class Moving Definitions: for Yvonne Rainer,
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 sound tape reel : 5 in., recorded at 3 ¾ ips
Box 120, Item V107, V134, V135
Three Seascapes (1962),
2002
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (VHS). 3 copies
Scope and Content Note
N.B., one copy has date 2002 Sep 20]. On the original cassette jacket of copy 1 and 2: "88908 (2).5" Choreographed by Rainer,
performed by Patricia Hoffbauer at Judson Church, 2002 September 30
Use copy available.
Box 108, Item V41
We Shall Run, Bennington,
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (U-matic)
Scope and Content Note
Use copy available.
Box 119, Item V105
Peoples Flag Show, Judson Church,
1970
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (VHS) (32 min., 45 sec.)
Scope and Content Note
May be a 1998 transfer of the original 1970 recording (?).
Use copy available, see DVD5.
Box 119, Item V106
Trio A with Flags (1970), performed at the opening of the People's Flag Show, Judson Church,
1970 Nov 9
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Scope and Content Note
Use copy available, see DVD4.
Box 111, Item V61
Trio A, produced by Sally Banes,
1978
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (U-matic) (10 min.), master
Scope and Content Note
Use copy available.
Box 108, Item V37
Danced by Wendy Perron,
1980 Oct 3
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (U-matic)
Box 108, Item V38
Trio A, Dancespace, Korean Broadcasting Co.,
1982 Apr
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (U-matic)
Scope and Content Note
Performed by Rainer. Rehearsal.
Box 107, Item V34
Museum of Contemporary Art,
1995 Sep 28
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (Betacam SP)
Box 119, Item V102
Trio A Pressured, Rainer choreographer, Movement Research at Judson Church,
1999 Oct 4
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Box 107, Item V35
OSU, G. [Greg] Catellier, V. Tucker, C. Feck,
2001 Feb 20
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (Betacam SP)
Box 107, Item V31-V33
Undated
General Physical Description note:
3 videocassettes (Betacam SP)
Box 107, Item V36
Dance in America,
Trio A,
undated
Physical Description:
1.0 video reel
Scope and Content Note
No audio.
Box 119, Item V101
Trio A: Rainer, Trisha [Brown], Bob,
undated
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Scope and Content Note
Note on label: "unique copy."
Box 123, Item V124
Cleaning of
Trio A with Yvonne Rainer,
undated
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Scope and Content Note
Portland, Oregon.
Use copy available.
Box 118, Item V95-V99
Trio A rehearsal,
undated
Physical Description:
6 videocassettes (mini DV)
Scope and Content Note
Rainer teaching choreography to Steve Paxton in a studio. Cassette no. V97 has "50 min. remain" written on label.
Chair Pillow
2001, undated
Box 108, Item V42
Dennison U rehearsal,
undated
Box 119, Item V103
Connecticut Rehearsal,
1969 Jul
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Scope and Content Note
Early rehearsal of Rainer's
Continuous Project, Altered Daily, shot by Michael Fajans at Connecticut College. See DVD copy in Box 125.
Box 111, Item V59-V60
Continuous Project, Altered Daily, Connecticut Rehearsal,
1969
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassettes (Betacam SP) : 30 min. 50 sec.; 1 videocassettes (U-matic) : 30 min. 50 sec.
Scope and Content Note
With: Whitney Museum Performance, 1970 Mar 31 (11 min.).
Box 119, Item V104
Dance Fractions for the West Coast,
1969?
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (VHS) (51 min.) : b&w and color
Scope and Content Note
Directed by Rainer; produced by KQED-TV, San Francisco. In email Rainer calls this "Performance Fractions for the West Coast."
Note: 3/4 in. NTSC transfer from 1 in. open reel video mater.
Use copy available, see DVD3.
Box 124, Item V125-V131
Grand Union,
1972 May
Physical Description:
7.0 videocassettes (VHS)
Scope and Content Note
A series of performances, possibly incomplete, on 7 videocassettes (of 8?). See file in box for performers, history of Grand
Union, history of recording and reformatting, and content descriptions. These copies are from the Fales Library, NYU, numbers
D222, D227-D232.
Box 108, Item V39-V40
La Jolla Museum of Art,
1998 Jan 26
General Physical Description note:
2 videocassettes (U-matic)
Scope and Content Note
Performed by Rainer.
Box 115, Item V74
#01 - 02
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Scope and Content Note
Use copy available.
Box 115, Item V75
#02 end - 04
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Scope and Content Note
Use copy available.
Box 115, Item V76
#04 end, 05, 06
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Scope and Content Note
Use copy available.
Box 115, Item V77
#06 end, 07, 08
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Scope and Content Note
Use copy available.
Box 115, Item V78
#09, 10
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Scope and Content Note
Use copy available.
Box 115, Item V79
#11, 12
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Scope and Content Note
Use copy available.
Box 116, Item V80
#12 end, 13, 14
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Scope and Content Note
Use copy available.
Box 116, Item V81
#15, 16
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Scope and Content Note
Use copy available.
Box 116, Item V82
#17, 18
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Scope and Content Note
Use copy available.
Box 116, Item V83
#19, 20
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Scope and Content Note
Use copy available.
Box 116, Item V84
#21, 22
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Box 120, Item V108
White Oak Dance Project, UCLA, Royce Hall,
2000 Oct 28-29
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Scope and Content Note
Contents:
Talking Solo (1963);
Chair / Pillow (1970);
Trio A Pressured (1966). All choreographed by Rainer, performed 2000 Oct 28-29.
Use copy available.
Box 120, Item V109
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, Rainer, BAM,
2000 Jun
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Scope and Content Note
Commissioned by the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation.
Use copy available, see DVD7.
Box 108, Item V44
Rainer at Reed College,
2003 April 6
Box 119, Item V100a-b
Rehearsal with Steve, pt. I, pt. II,
undated
Scope and Content Note
2 videocassettes of 2 (VHS)
Box 111, Item V62
Beyond the Mainstream : Dance in America series,
1980 May 8
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (U-matic)
Scope and Content Note
Information on original cassette label: Cassette machine no. 3, Eng.: PD, copied from no. 13259B.
Box 112, 123
Journeys from Berlin / 1971
1971, 1980
Box 112, Item V63
Part I
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette of 3 (U-matic) (60 min.)
Box 112, Item V64
Part II
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette of 3 (U-matic) (60 min.)
Box 112, Item V65
Part III
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette of 3 (U-matic) (5 min.)
Box 112, Item V66-V67
Part II [excerpt]
General Physical Description note:
2 videocassettes (U-matic) (30 min.): 2 copies
Box 123, Item V120
1980
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (VHS) (125 min.) : b/w
Box 103-105, 113, 128
Privilege
undated and 1990
Box 103, Item V1-V6
6 videocassettes (VHS),
undated
Scope and Content Note
Australian Film Institute, Distribution LTD. V1-V5 have a duration of 97 minutes and "VHS 500" is written on the spine; V6
has a duration of 105 minutes.
Box 128, Item V133
1 video reel,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Note on label: "withdrawn."
Box 104-105
Interviews with women (for
Privilege),
undated
Box 104, Item V13
Audrey and Gloria #1
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Box 104, Item V14
Audrey #1
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (Betacam)
Box 105, Item V17
Audrey #2, Gloria #1
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (Betacam)
Box 105, Item V18
1 videocassette (Betacam)
Scope and Content Note
On original cassette case: "T. Rainer Two,
Privilege".
Box 104, Item V12
And Los Gatos
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Box 105, Item V19
1 videocassette (Betacam)
Scope and Content Note
On original cassette case: "T. Rainer Two,
Privilege".
Box 105, Item V21
Reel 1
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (Betacam)
Box 105, Item V22
Reel 2
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (Betacam)
Box 105, Item V20
Gloria #4 and Los Gatos
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (Betacam)
Box 105, Item V23
Reel 1
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (Betacam)
Box 105, Item V24
Reel 2
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (Betacam)
Box 104-105 , Item V15-V16
Helene Moglen
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (VHS) ; 1 videocassette (Betacam)
Box 104, Item V9
Reel 1
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (Betacam)
Box 104, Item V10
Reel 2
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (Betacam)
Box 113, Item V68
"I'm going to will menopause away,"
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (U-matic)
Scope and Content Note
For
Privilege; plus excerpt from Faith interview.
Box 113, Item V69-V70
Privilege source,
1990 Feb
General Physical Description note:
2 videocassettes of 2 (U-matic)
Box 113, Item V71
Reshoot,
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (U-matic)
Box 127, Item V132
Film About a Woman Who,
Physical Description:
1.0 video reel
Box 122, Item V117-V123
The Yvonne Rainer Collection, A Zeitgeist Films Release
1972-1996
Box 122, Item V117
Lives of Performers,
1972
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (VHS) (90 min.) : b&w
Box 122, Item V118
Film About a Woman Who...,
1974
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (VHS) (105 min.) : b&w
Box 122, Item V119
Kristina Talking Pictures,
1976
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (VHS) (90 min.) : b&w
Box 123, Item V121
The Man Who Envied Women,
1985
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (VHS) (125 min.) : col.
Box 123, Item V122
Privilege,
1990
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (VHS) (103 min.) : b&w and col.
Box 123, Item V123
MURDER and murder,
1996
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (VHS) (113 min.) : col.
Box 106, Item V26-V28
Interviews with Rainer and events at which she appeared,
1995 and undated
Scope and Content Note
See also Box 125, DVD1, Screening Room, with Robert Gardner: Yvonne Rainer.
Box 106, Item V26
Wexner Prize, Yvonne Rainer,
1995 May
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Box 106, Item V27
Rainer and Lynne Tillman: A Conversation, Wexner Center,
1995 May 18
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Scope and Content Note
Plus plus: cat listening to music (Chris Marker).
Box 106, Item V28
Donahue - Women; Oprah Winfrey - Women aging,
undated
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Box 106, Item V29
Lenny Bruce,
undated
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Box 114, Item V72
This is the story of a filmmaker who...,
Film and Video Review,
[1980]
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (U-matic), master
Box 106, Item V30
Weerklank, Ruth Rainer - Matthgs Wils,
1986 Jan
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Box 111, Item V58
Rainer interview with D. Fort,
2000 Jan 13
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (Betacam SP)
Box 114, Item V73
Rainer. The Judson Project,
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (U-matic) (56 min, 10 sec.)
Scope and Content Note
"Time base dub."
Box 121, Item V112
Rainer interview with Deborah Fort,
2000 Jan 13
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Box 116, Item V85-V89
Charles Atlas, Rainer Variations,
2001-2002
Scope and Content Note
Charles Atlas's Rainer Variations is a montage dealing with Rainer's career using real and simulated interviews and rehearsal
footage.
Box 116, Item V85a-b
Move # 1 and #2
General Physical Description note:
2 videocassettes (DVCam)
Scope and Content Note
i.e., Richard Move, actor who impersonates Martha Graham (?).
Box 116, Item V86a-b
Rainer / Graham #1 and #2
General Physical Description note:
2 videocassettes (DVCam)
Scope and Content Note
Rainer with Richard Move as Martha Graham (?)
Box 116, Item V87a-b
Atlas / [Kathleen] Chalfant #1 and #2
General Physical Description note:
2 videocassettes (DVCam)
Box 116, Item V88-V89
Y1 and Y2,
2001 May 23
Physical Description:
2.0 videocassettes (VHS)
Scope and Content Note
With 2 typed scripts: "Gregg #1, Script #2 (for Kathleen)" 9pp; and "Gregg #2, Script #2 (for Richard) 10pp. [For Charles
Atlas's "Rainer Variations"?]
Box 118, Item V93a-V93b, V94a-V94b
Rainer conversation,
2001 May 23
Physical Description:
4 videocassettes of 4 (mini DV)
Scope and Content Note
Written on label of tape V94b: "Y/G conversation." Written on tapes V93a and V93b, respectively: "Y1" and "Y2." Written on
tapes 94a and 94b, respectively: "G1" and "G2."
Box 122, Item V115
Talking Dance: Sally Banes and Yvonne Rainer,
2001 Sep 26
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Scope and Content Note
At Walker Art Center Auditorium.
Box 122, Item V116
Yvonne at the Pillow, Jacob's Pillow Festival,
2002 Aug 11
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Box 121, Item V111a-c
Rainer, Barbara Moore, Carrie Lambert,
2002 Feb 1
General Physical Description note:
3 videocassettes of 3 (VHS)
Scope and Content Note
All labeled as copy 2.
Box 118, Item V90
Clinton interview,
Physical Description:
1 videocassette (mini DV)
Box 121, Item V110
Eye on Dance,
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (VHS) (28 min., 35 sec.)
Scope and Content Note
Guests: Yvonne Rainer, Sara Rudner, host: Celia Ipiotis. Produced by ARC Videodance, New York, 1990. Recorded: 1990 Jun 25.
First air date: 1990 Nov 26.
Box 121, Item V113
Rainer meetings with Xavier Le Roy, Berlin,
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Scope and Content Note
Use copy available.
Box 122, Item V114
What Does She Want: Women with a past, Program 6,
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Scope and Content Note
Produced by Lynn Blumenthal, 1987. Distributed by Video Data Bank. Interviews with: Christine Choy, by Joyce Bolinger, Nalani
McClendon, Chris Straayer; Yvonne Rainer, by Lyn Blumenthal; Nancy Spero, by Kate Horsfield.
Box 109-110
Videos by others,
1981, 1993 and undated
Box 109, Item V45
Anita Thatcher, Film and Video Works,
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette of 1 (VHS)
Scope and Content Note
Contains:
Homage to Magritte (1975, 10 minutes),
One Art (1987, 2 minutes),
Loose Corner (1986, 10 minutes),
Sea Travels (1978, 10 minutes),
Permanent Wave (1968, 3 minutes),
The Breakfast Table (1979, 13 minutes), and
To the Top (1991, 7 minutes).
Box 109, Item V46
Trudy Fruitcake,
Forbidden Fruitcake: excerpts,
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (VHS) : 7 min.
Box 109, Item V47
Program #107:
The Individual and Tradition,
1993 Apr 12
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Box 109, Item V48-V50
Signal to Noise: Life with Television. Show One, Show Two, Show Three,
undated
General Physical Description note:
3 videocassettes of 3 (VHS)
Box 110, Item V51
Dee Dee Halleck,
The Circus Burning : Der Zirkus breint,
undated
Physical Description:
1.0 videocassette (VHS)
Box 110, Item V52
Margaret Stratton,
Kiss the Boys and Make them Die,
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 videocassette (VHS) (30 min.)
Box 110, Item V53-V54
Abortion demonstration, [shot by?] Rainer. Madison Square Garden,
1981 May 20
General Physical Description note:
2 videocassettes of 2 (U-matic)
Box 110, Item V55-V57
Unlabeled
General Physical Description note:
3 videocassettes (U-matic, VHS and Betacam)
Box 118, Item V91-V92
Yvonne and Colin,
undated
Physical Description:
2 videocassettes (mini DV)
Box 118, Item V91
Rehearsal,
undated
Physical Description:
1 videocassette (mini DV)
Box 118, Item V92
Performance,
undated
Physical Description:
1 videocassette (mini DV)
Box 125, Item D1-D2
Sound discs,
1991, undated
Box 125, Item D1
[Untitled: 9 Tracks],
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 sound disc (Compact disc) : digital ; 4 ¾ in.
Scope and Content Note
Includes: "I want to make a dance," "[illegible] Vocal," "[illegible] Collage," "Alarm," "Horse Trot," "This Tape-" "[illegible],"
"I really don't like being here," "Tonight [illegible]."
Box 125, Item D2
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Rainer, Y.,
1991
General Physical Description note:
1 sound odisc (Compact disc) : digital ; 4 ¾ in.
Scope and Content Note
CD labeled "1 of 2"; number 2 is not present.
Box 125, Item DVD1 - DVD11
DVD's,
1969-2000 and undated
Box 125, Item DVD1
Screening Room With Robert Gardner,
2005
General Physical Description note:
1 videodisc (DVD) : digital ; 4 ¾ in.
Box 125a, Item DVD2
Connecticut Rehearsal, Rainer,
1969
General Physical Description note:
1 videodisc (DVD) : digital ; 4 ¾ in.
Scope and Content Note
Rehearsal for Connecticut Composite, which included an early version of Continuous Project - Altered Daily. Shot by Michael
Fajans at Connecticut College, July 1969. [See videocassette in Box 109; See films.]
Use copy available.
Box 125b, Item DVD3
Dance Fractions for the West Coast,
1969
General Physical Description note:
1 videodisc (DVD) : digital ; 4 ¾ in.
Scope and Content Note
DVD3 is available for use by qualified researchers.
Box 125, Item DVD4
Trio A with Flags (1966), performed at the opening of the
People's Flag Show, Judson Church,
1970 Nov 9
General Physical Description note:
1 videodisc (DVD) : digital ; 4 ¾ in.
Scope and Content Note
DVD4 is available for use by qualified researchers.
Box 125, Item DVD5
Peoples Flag Show, Judson Church,
1970 Nov 9
General Physical Description note:
1 videodisc (DVD) : digital ; 4 ¾ in.
Scope and Content Note
DVD5 is available for use by qualified researchers.
Box 125, Item DVD6
White Oak Dance Project, UCLA Royce Hall,
2000
General Physical Description note:
1 videodisc (DVD) : digital ; 4 ¾ in.
Scope and Content Note
Includes "Talking Solo," Trio Pressured," and "Chair/Pillow."
See also V108.
Box 125c, Item DVD7
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, Rainer, BAM,
undated
General Physical Description note:
1 videodisc (DVD) : digital ; 4 ¾ in.
Scope and Content Note
DVD7 is available for use by qualified researchers.
Box 125, Item DVD8-DVD9
Martha @ the Pillow,
undated
General Physical Description note:
2 video discs (DVD) : digital ; 4 ¾ in.
Scope and Content Note
Richard Move as Martha Graham; with Rainer at Jacob's Pillow.
Box 125, Item DVD10
A Woman Who...Selected Works of Yvonne Rainer,
undated
General Physical Description note:
2 videodiscs of 2 (DVD) : digital ; 4 ¾ in. + booklet
Scope and Content Note
Video Data Bank presents, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Box 126, Item DD1
Laser discs:
Trio A,
1995 Oct 1
General Physical Description note:
1 laser disk [brand name]
Scope and Content Note
Use copy available.
Scope and Content Note
Choreographed 1966, filmed 1978.
Box 152-203, Item F1-F46
Motion picture films,
1964-1980 and undated
Scope and Content Note
All 16 mm., some exist in multiple formats (see videos) and generations. Repository has re-wound all the films.
