Finding aid for the Yvonne Rainer papers, 1871-2013, bulk 1959-2013
Martha Steele
Descriptive Summary
Title: Yvonne Rainer papers
Date (inclusive): 1871-2013 (bulk 1959-2013)
Number: 2006.M.24
Creator/Collector:
Rainer, Yvonne,
1934-
Physical Description:
146 Linear Feet
(222 boxes, 12 flatfile folders)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(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 2013, 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 English
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 Cunningham. 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 the 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, 1871-2013, bulk 1959-2013, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles,
Accession no. 2006.M.24.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2006m24
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. Amy Sloper rehoused the film reels and wrote physical descriptions in 2007. Martha
Steele completed the processing and wrote the finding aid from January 2007 through March
2009. Andra Darlington edited the finding aid in December 2009. In 2014, Emmabeth Nanol
processed and incorporated additional materials dated 2003 to 2013.
Reformatted Audiovisual Materials
Separated Material
Over 80 monographs and serials were transferred to the library. These publications can be
searched in the Library catalog by searching 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 2013. 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 2012. 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 niece, 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 Allan 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, DVDs
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, 1949-2012, undated;
Series II. Correspondence,
1953-2008, undated;
Series III. Works,
1960-2005, undated;
Series IV. Professional
and exhibition files, 1964-2009;
Series V. Programs and
reviews, 1959-2013, undated;
Series VI. Topical
research files, circa 1951-2005, undated;
Series VII. Photography,
1933-2004, undated;
Series VIII. Audiovisual
materials, circa 1963-2003;
Series IX. Oversize
materials, 1871, 1967, 1980, circa 2000, undated;
Series X. Writings about
Rainer, dance and film, 1934-2013, undated.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Moore, Peter, 1932-1993
Buchloh, B. H. D.
Brown, Trisha, 1936-2017
Rainer, Yvonne, 1934-
Morris, Robert, 1931-2018
Subjects - Topics
Experimental films -- United States
Choreographers -- United States
Modern Dance -- United States
Feminist films -- United States
Motion picture producers and directors -- United States
Women artists -- Archives
Genres and Forms of Material
Slides (photographs)
Photographic prints
DVDs
Photographs, Original
Negatives (Photographs)
Posters
Motion pictures
Programs
Audiocassettes
Videocassettes
Contributors
Brown, Trisha, 1936-2017
Rainer, Yvonne,
1934-
Morris, Robert, 1931-2018
Moore, Peter, 1932-1993
Buchloh, B. H. D.
Series I.
Notebooks, appointment and address books,
1949-2012, undated
Physical Description:
3 Linear
Feet
(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.
Arrangement note
This series is arranged in three groupings. Each grouping is then arranged
chrononologically except for the address books.
box 1, folder 1
1949-1952
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
A diary and a book 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.
Appointment books,
1970-2012
Scope and Content Note
Includes books and loose pages that have been separated from their notebook covers.
Material spans the years 1970-2012, 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,
1953-2008, undated
Physical Description:
9 Linear
Feet
(14 boxes, 1 flatfile
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.
Arrangement note
This series is arranged chronologically with letters to Ivan Rainer at the beginning
and undated correspondence at the end.
Papers of brother, Ivan Rainer, and his wife,
1953-1978, undated
box 8, folder 1
Poster,
undated
Physical Description:
1
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 Deutscher
Akademischer Austauschdienst (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
photographs
box 8, folder 4
1959, 1961-1962
Physical Description:
8
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes one undated item from "Ellie" about
Trio
A
.
box 8, folder 5
1963
Physical Description:
13
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
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
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes one letter addressed to "Bob" [Robert Morris].
box 8, folder 8-9
1966
Physical Description:
51
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
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes five letters from Robert Morris.
box 8, folder 15-16
1968
Physical Description:
38
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes two letters addressed to Robert Morris and Rainer, and three letters to
Morris from Rainer.
1969
Physical Description:
25
items
box 9, folder 1-3
Letters
Physical Description:
24
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
item
box 9, folder 4
1970
Physical Description:
15
items
box 9, folder 5-8
1971
Physical Description:
34
items
1972
Physical Description:
47
items
box 9, folder 9-12
Letters,
Physical Description:
46
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
items
box 10, folder 1-13
1974
Physical Description:
139
items
box 10, folder 14
Correspondence with Benjamin Buchloh,
1974-1975
Physical Description:
34
items
Scope and Content Note
31 letters from Buchloh, three from Rainer.
1975
Physical Description:
145
items
box 10, folder 15-19
January-April and undated
Physical Description:
50
items
box 11, folder 1-5
May-December
Physical Description:
95
items
box 11, folder 6-16
1976
Physical Description:
177
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
items
box 12, folder 10-17
1978
Physical Description:
117
items
box 13, folder 1-12
1979
Physical Description:
136
items
box 13, folder 13-21
1980
Physical Description:
118
items
1981
Physical Description:
104
items
box 13, folder 22-23
January-February and undated
Physical Description:
28
items
box 14, folder 1-6
March-December
Physical Description:
76
items
box 14, folder 7-13
1982
Physical Description:
108
items
box 14, folder 14-20
1983
Physical Description:
72
items
box 15, folder 1-7
1984
Physical Description:
74
items
box 15, folder 8-14
1985
Physical Description:
59
items
box 15, folder 15-21
1986
Physical Description:
78
items
1987
Physical Description:
94
items
box 15, folder 22-24
January-June and undated
Physical Description:
16
items
box 16, folder 1-4
July-December
Physical Description:
16
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes letter from Trisha [Brown].
box 16, folder 5-11
1988
Physical Description:
81
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
items
1990
Physical Description:
118
items
box 16, folder 19
circa 1990
Physical Description:
9
items
box 17, folder 1-10
January-December
Physical Description:
109
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.
Australia visit,
1990
Physical Description:
16
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
[Australia Radio Talk] (digital version available on-site only)
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
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes a letter from T. [Trisha Brown?]
box 18, folder 9-14
1992
Physical Description:
61
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
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes a letter from Trisha Brown.
box 19, folder 1-7
1994
Physical Description:
68
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
items
box 19, folder 17-23
1996
Physical Description:
52
items
box 20, folder 1-8
1997
Physical Description:
90
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes a letter from Trisha Brown (Oct).
box 20, folder 9-15
1998
Physical Description:
75
items
box 20, folder 16-19
1999
Physical Description:
53
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes a card from Yoko Ono, and a letter from Rainer to Misha [Mikhail
Baryshnikov] accepting his invitation to choreograph a dance for his White Oak Dance
Project.
box 21, folder 1-4
2000
Physical Description:
50
items
box 21, folder 5-6
2001
Physical Description:
27
items
box 21, folder 7-8
2002
Physical Description:
16
items
box 21, folder 9-10
2003
Physical Description:
17
items
box 21, folder 11-12
2004
Physical Description:
20
items
box 21, folder 13
2005
Physical Description:
1
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, undated
Physical Description:
7 Linear
Feet
(16 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
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.
Arrangement note
This series is arranged in three subseries: 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.
Series III.A.
Dance, performance, and film,
1960-2005, undated
Physical Description:
4 Linear
Feet
(9 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
The subseries begins with Rainer's comprehensive résumé. 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.
Arrangement note
Files are arranged chronologically, with some exceptions.
box 21, folder 14
Watering Place score,
circa 1960
Physical Description:
4
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.
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 fleirs. 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
Bentley
, used as a sound track for
Parts of Some
Sextets
."
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 Biørn, 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.
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 at 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.
Continuous Project, Altered
Daily
,
1969-1970, 1998
box 22, folder 14
Programs, contracts, fliers 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"
circa 1970
Scope and Content Note
Three hand-written copies/versions on graph paper.
box 133*, folder 12
Oversize clipping,
circa 1970
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.
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.
Lives of Performers,
1972, undated
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
Scope and Content Note
31 duplicate slides.
box 96
French text, tray 1
Scope and Content Note
33 slides. Up to "she starts to leave...".
box 96
Text slides for ocean, French
Scope and Content Note
30 duplicate slides.
box 96
French text, tray 1 (end), tray 2
Scope and Content Note
15 slides.
box 96
English and French text
Scope and Content Note
27 duplicate slides.
box 96
Slides for Brenda
Scope and Content Note
9 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.
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.
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.
Inner Appearances,
circa 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.
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 fliers/programs for these two venues. Also
includes part of a script, photographs, fliers, 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, fliers, images of Rainer and train (from newspaper), and two
posters:
5 Evenings (Boston) and
questa è la storia di una donna che... (Rome).
Film About a Woman Who...,
circa 1974
box 24, folder 6-7
Notebooks
Scope and Content Note
Two notebooks with shooting notes.
"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.
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
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.
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.
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.
After Many a Summer Dies the
Swan
,
2000-2002
box 30, folder 3
Carl Schorske,
Fin de siècle Vienna,
annotated copy
Scope and Content Note
Rainer's source for
After the Summer Dies the
Swaan
.
box 30, folder 5
After Many a 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..."
Series III.B.
Scores and scripts,
circa 1960-1966, undated
Physical Description:
0.2 Linear
Feet
(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.
Arrangement note
This subseries is arranged topically.
box 30, folder 7
Philip Corner music scores,
undated
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,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Used by Rainer for
Three Satie Spoons.
box 30, folder 9
Dance scores,
undated
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,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten on yellow note paper: "New stills."
box 205, folder 4
Carriage Discreteness,
1966
Series III.C.
Scripts by others,
undated
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
Series III.C.
Rainer writings and publications,
1963-2005, undated
Physical Description:
2.6 Linear
Feet
(6 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
This subseries contains Yvonne Rainer's writings in manuscript and published form,
including handwritten notes.
Arrangement
This subseries is arranged chronologically with undated materials at the end.
box 31, folder 1
"Some thoughts on improvisation (for painter James Lee Byars),"
1963
Scope and Content Note
One handwritten, one typed manuscript.
box 31, folder 2
"Sleeping,"
1964
Scope and Content Note
Two-page handwritten text (one sheet) untitled with first line "I want to make a
dance about sleeping." With published copy in
ICA
Bulletin
, 1964-1965.
box 31, folder 3
"Dwarf syndrome,"
1965
Scope and Content Note
One-page typed manuscript, a statement about dance dated 1965 October 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...,"
after 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 movies 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,"
after 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)
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 September 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,'"
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,"
1980
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 September 8, Bill
Horrigan, Valerie Ellis, Helen De Michiel; 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
"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
[Untitled] "Shirley is gone,"
after 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
If You Lived Here, The City in Art, Theory and Social
Activism: A Project by Martha Rosler (Discussions in Contemporary
Culture)
, published in 1991.
box 31b, folder 5
Letter to
Artforum,
1993 September
Scope and Content Note
About Lizzie Borden's piece on Trisha Brown and Rainer.
box 31b, folder 6
Letter to
October,
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 Ellis 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
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.
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,
1964-2013, undated
Physical Description:
3 Linear
Feet
(5 boxes, 1 flatfile
folder)
Scope and Content Note
This series contains files documenting 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.
Arrangement note
The documents in this series are arranged in six groupings. Each grouping is further
arranged chronologically.
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
Scandinavia: 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 at the Commonwealth Institute in London;
program for the performance.
box 33, folder 5
Spoleto, Festival of Two Worlds,
1967 July
Scope and Content Note
Rainer and William Davis in adaptation of material from
The Mind is a Muscle.
box 132*, folder 9
Studentafton, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Morris, Modern Dans,
Lund,
1965 Sep 9
box 33, folder 6
Touring possibilities,
1968-1975
box 33, folder 7
Goddard College, Plainfield, VT,
1968 December
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 July
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 à Paris,
1972 November
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 March
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
Conferences,
1978-2001, 2010-2013
box 34, folder 9
Television/Society/Art,
1980
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 April 25 - May 8
Scope and Content Note
Two copies.
box 205, folder 7
Politics in Art Forms, UCLA,
2013
Teaching,
circa 1970- circa 1974, 2008
box 35, folder 1
School of Visual Arts, New York,
circa 1970
Scope and Content Note
Papers related to Rainer's teaching at SVA.
box 64, folder 8
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
circa 1974
Scope and Content Note
Regarding Rainer's first time teaching in the Independent Study Program in
1974.
box 205, folder 8
University of California, Irvine,
2008
Lectures,
1995-2011
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 October 19
Scope and Content Note
Yvonne Rainer in conversation with John Hahnhardt, with Sid Sachs at the Crossroads
Theatre, New Brunswick, NJ. Two copies.
box 209, folder 1
MFA lecture series (Pacific Northwest College of Art),
2011
Scope and Content Note
One small poster.
Exhibitions,
1975-2013
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.
"Radical Juxtapositions,"
2000-2004
box 36, folder 3-4
Documentation and exhibit planning for Rosenwald Wolf Gallery,
Philadelphia exhibition,
2000-2004
box 98
Slides for Yvonne Rainer, "Radical Juxtapositions," 1961-2002, Los
Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions [LACE],
2004
Physical Description:
18
slides
Scope and Content Note
Exhibition held 2005 May 5 - August 8. Photography credit: Joshua White.
box 136*, folder 2
"Women Artists at the Millennium," Princeton University,
2001 November 9-10
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 April - May
box 36, folder 9
Melbourne, Yvonne Rainer, The Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the
Arts,
2004 April 19-23
box 205, folder 9
Documenta 12,
2007 June 6-September 23
Old Brewery New Dance at Malta,
2007 June 6-July 1
box 206, folder 1
Sivuaskel / Side Step Festival, Helsinki,
2007
box 206, folder 2
Tanzquartier, Wien,
2007 September-October
"WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution," The Geffen Contemporary Art at
MOCA and MOMA,
2007-2008
box 206, folder 5
Images Festival, Toronto,
2010
Retrospectives,
1994-1999, 2004, undated
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 January 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
française,
2004 September 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,
1959-2013, undated
Physical Description:
13 Linear
Feet
(15 boxes, 6 flatfile
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.
Arrangement note
This series is arranged chronologically. The second section of dance and film reviews
is also organized chronologically, with reviews on individual films in files named for
the films.
Programs,
1959-2013, undated
Scope and Content Note
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.
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.
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 flier 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.
Happenings,
1963-1964, undated
box 132*, folder 4
"Four Happenings" by Allan Kaprow, Smolin Gallery, New
York,
circa 1963
Scope and Content Note
Postmark 11/18/1963.
box 132*, folder 5
"'You:' A Décollage Happening by Vostell," Cricket Theater, New
York,
1964 April 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
Scope and Content Note
Designed by Robert Morris. Two copies.
Dance outside Judson,
1964
box 37, folder 12
Programs,
1964
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,
1964 May 2
box 132*, folder 5
Five New York Kvällar, Moderna Museet, Stockholm,
1964 September 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,
1964 September 8
box 132*, folder 6
The Once Festival, Dramatic Arts Center, VFW Ballroom, Ann
Arbor,
1964 February 25-March 1
Scope and Content Note
Three copies.
box 132*, folder 7
Aileen Passloff and Dance Company presents four new works..., Judson
Church,
1964 May 31-Jun 1
box 37, folder 13
Programs,
1964
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,
1965
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,
1965 Mar 23-25
Scope and Content Note
25 copies in Series V, Judson, 1965. Each copy has a mailing address.
Dance outside Judson, and non-dance programs,
1965
box 37, folder 15
Programs,
1965
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,
1965 Mar 6-7
box 132*, folder 12
Trisha Brown, Deborah Hay, a Dance Concert, Judson Memorial
Church,
1966 March 29-30
box 132*, folder 10
Dance Concert of Old Work and New, Judson Church,
1966 January 10-12
Scope and Content Note
Dancers: Rainer, David Gordon, Steve Paxton. Four copies.
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 February 25
box 133*, folder 1
The NOW Festival, Private Arts Foundation, Washington,
D.C.,
1966 April 26 - May 1
Scope and Content Note
Six copies.
box 133*, folder 3
9 Evenings: Theatre and
Engineering,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Program, Program Addenda, "CC Stage" plan for Rainer.
box 133*, folder 4
Concerti di Danza, Decimo Festival, Teatrino delle Sette,
Spoleto,
1967 July 9
Scope and Content Note
Program includes Rainer.
box 133*, folder 5
Dance Protest, Hunter Playhouse, New York,
1967 January 30
box 133*, folder 6
The Living Theatre, Paradise Now,
circa 1967
box 133*, folder 7
Dance Theater Workshop at Riverside,
1967 or 1968 October 18 - November
10
box 133*, folder 8
Benefit Show for Experiments in Art and Technology, Inc., Leo Castelli,
New York,
1967 December 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 April
box 133*, folder 10
Midsummer, Inc., Presents Five Dance Performances by Lucinda Childs,
Deborah Hay, Yvonne Rainer, Anderson Theater, New York,
circa 1968
box 133*, folder 13-14
Grand Union, Oberlin College,
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 2
Scope and Content Note
Poster is torn with loss at bottom edge.
1972
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,
1972
Scope and Content Note
Two copies.
box 134*, folder 3
Lives of Performers;
Film About a Woman Who..,
1972 March 4, March 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,
1972
box 134*, folder 1
Emily Lowe Gallery: 1) Philip Glass Concert 1972 February 29; 2) Yvonne
Rainer Performance, Hofstra University, Hempstead, Long Island,
1972
flatfile 4**
Photo Romanza: poster, Festival d'Automne à Paris,
1972
Scope and Content Note
Pictures Rainer and John Erdman. Produced by Bénédicte 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,
1973
Scope and Content Note
File contains program for
This Is the Story of a Woman
Who...
and
Lives ofPperformers 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 Borghese, Rome,
1973 February 22
box 134*, folder 5
Yvonne Rainer
Performance Around a Film About a
Woman Who..
, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute,
Pittsburgh,
1974 October 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 cooperation with Hallswalls,
1975 April 21
box 134*, folder 6
La danse sur scène et sur film, Musée des beaux-arts de
Montréal,
1976 November
box 134*, folder 7
Yvonne Rainer Drei Filme im Arsenal, Berlin,
1976 March 3-5
box 135*, folder 1
Poster: The Vanguard Today: Meanings of Modernism, Walker Arts Center,
Minneapolis,
1979 October 8-November 26
Scope and Content Note
Yvonne Rainer lecture [among others].
box 135*, folder 1
Performance, arts plastiques, théâtre, danse, musique, cinéma
d'aujourd'hui, Montréal,
1980 October-November
box 135*, folder 2
Journeys from Berlin, a film by Yvonne
Rainer,
1980
box 135*, folder 3
Cinema Histories, Cinema Practices II, Milwaukee,
1982 November 9-12
box 135*, folder 3
Retrospektive Vsevolod I. Pudovkin, Filme von Jonas Mekas,
Vienna,
1982 March
box 135*, folder 4
2nd Yvonne Rainer Film Festival, University of California, Santa
Cruz,
1985 October 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 February 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
Poster: Matrilineage Women Art Change, Syracuse University,
1991 November 9-17
box 135*, folder 8
Poster: Women Make Waves, Sistren Theatre Collective,
1993 September 26 - October 2
flatfile 6**
MURDER and murder: the new film by
Yvonne Rainer, Zeitgeist Films,
1996
Scope and Content Note
Two copies.
box 135*, folder 8
MURDER and murder, Franklin Patterson
Hampshire College, Amherst,
1997 March 27
Scope and Content Note
Six copies.
box 135*, folder 9
Poster: Afterimage: Drawing Through Process, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles,
1999 April 10
box 136*, folder 1
Certificate: The Bessies,
2000 September 15
Scope and Content Note
Awarded to Rainer for her work,
After the Summer Dies the
Swan.
flatfile 6**
Poster: Eine Barocke Party: Augen Blicke des Welttheaters in der
Zeitgenössischen Kunst...Kunsthalle Wien,
2001 June 16 - September 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,
2003 April 10-12
box 207, folder 1
Deutsche Guggenheim,
2008
box 207, folder 2
Festival of International Dance, Yale,
2008
box 207, folder 4
WACK! (Vancouver Gallery),
2009
box 208, folder 1
Dia and Kunsthaus Bregenz,
2012
box 204
Duplicates: programs and posters
Reviews,
1961-2012
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 8
Lives of Performers,
1972
box 41, folder 9
Film About a Woman Who...,
1972
box 41, folder 10-12
Kristina Talking Pictures,
1976
Journeys from Berlin / 1971,
1978
box 42, folder 3-6
The Man Who Envied Women,
1984
box 43, folder 1-7
MURDER and murder ,
1996-1997
box 208, folder 12
Freeway Balconies at Deutsch Guggenheim,
2008
box 208, folder 13
Museum Ludwig, Köln,
2012
Series VI.
Topical research files,
circa 1951-2005, undated
Physical Description:
12 Linear
Feet
(23 boxes, 2 flatfile
folders)
Scope and Content Note
The files in this series contain collected material on people and topics. Much of this
material seems to have fed Rainer's work.
Arrangement note
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.
Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America, General
Statement,
1984 January
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
Résumé, articles and printed ephemera.
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 clips.
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
Résumé, 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.
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.
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 July 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: John 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.
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.
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.
Fluxus,
circa 1962-1968, 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
Soirée 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, résumé, 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
Guerrilla Girls,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Promotional materials, articles.
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
Résumé.
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"
Scope and Content Note
83 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
Fliers, programs, public relations. See also Programs.
box 55, folder 21
Judson Memorial Church, Celebration of Freedom,
1999 April
box 55, folder 22
Judson Poets Theater,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Programs, fliers.
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
Résumé, 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 fliers 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, flier.
box 56, folder 19
Luca, Mark,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Résumé, 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
Résumé, 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 résumé, 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
Fliers, 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.
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,
1970s
Scope and Content Note
Articles, notes on retail goods and services, map of New York City.
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
Fliers, 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
Yvonne Rainer, Deborah Hay, Lucinda Childs. Letters asking for financial assistance.
Publicity.
box 60, folder 6
Rappaport, Mark,
1982
Scope and Content Note
Film proposal.
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, October 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
Flier.
box 62, folder 3
Schneider, Gary,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Clippings.
box 62, folder 5
Sirk, Douglas,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Program flier.
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
Résumé, letters.
box 62, folder 8-9
Students,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Résumé, letters and writings.
box 62, folder 10
Straub, Jean-Marie and Danièle Huillet,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Program of films.
box 62, folder 11
Sugerman, George,
1959, 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 February 4
Scope and Content Note
Article by Rachel Rosenthal,
Journal of the Los Angeles
Institute of Contemporary Art
, February 4, 1975.
Theater programs,
1982-1998, 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,
1992, 1998, 2001, 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.
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.
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, fliers, 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, undated
Physical Description:
18 Linear
Feet
(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.
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.
Color photography includes mostly personal photographs and production stills from her
films.
Most of the negatives document Rainer's dance performances and rehearsals, including
Trio A,
North East
Passing
,
Performance Demonstration,
The Mind is a Muscle,
Connecticut
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
.
Slides include 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.
Arrangement note
This series is arranged according to format in four groupings. Each grouping is
arranged chronologically, overall. Photographs of much performed works are listed
together.
Black-and-white photographs,
1933-2001
box 66
Personal photographs and documents,
circa 1933-2001
Physical Description:
72
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.
Photographs of Rainer performing,
1957-2000
box 67
Rainer performing with Edith Stephan,
circa 1957
Physical Description:
1
photograph
Scope and Content Note
Photograph of three unidentified dancers. Photographer: Bela Cseh.
box 67
Rainer in Louise Gilkes studio,
circa 1957
Physical Description:
8
photographs
box 67
Rainer and Nancy Meeham improvising,
1960
Physical Description:
9
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
photographs
box 67
Anna Halprin workshop,
1960 Summer
Physical Description:
1
photograph
Scope and Content Note
Group portrait, includes Rainer.
box 67
Three Satie Spoons, KQED-TV studio, San
Francisco,
1962
Physical Description:
4
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Warner Jepson.
box 67
Ordinary Dance, rehearsal, KQED-TV, San
Francisco,
1962
Physical Description:
6
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Warner Jepson.
box 67
Ordinary Dance, performance, KQED-TV, San
Francisco,
1962
Physical Description:
6
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Warner Jepson.
box 67
The Bells, KQED-TV, San
Francisco,
1962
Physical Description:
3
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Warner Jepson.
box 67
Satie for Two,
1962
Physical Description:
11
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photographs of Rainer and Trisha Brown in a studio.
box 67
Satie for Two, 92nd St. YMHA, New
York,
1962 or 1963
Physical Description:
11
items
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Vladimir Sladon. Photographs and 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
photographs
box 67
Three Seascapes, rehearsal, Judson
Church,
1963
Physical Description:
2
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit on one print: Robert R. McElroy.
box 67
Three Seascapes, performance, Judson
Church,
1963
Physical Description:
3
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit on one print: Al Giese.
box 67
Word Words, Judson Church,
1963 January 29
Physical Description:
3
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photographs of 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
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 contact
sheets
Scope and Content Note
Pictured: Rainer, Aileen Passloff, John Baker.
box 67
Shorter End of a Small Piece,
1963 November 20
Physical Description:
1
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
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
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 November 11-12
Physical Description:
1
photograph
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore.
Terrain, Judson Church,
1963 April 27
box 68
Yvonne Rainer
Physical Description:
1
photograph
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Al Giese.
box 68
Love section
Physical Description:
8
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Al Giese.
box 68
Diagonal
Physical Description:
7
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Al Giese, Henry Genn.
box 68
Play
Physical Description:
4
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Al Giese
box 68
Duet Section
Physical Description:
8
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
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Judith Dunn and Steve Paxton performing with other dancers watching.
box 68
Solo Section
Physical Description:
4
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Steven Paxton, Rainer, William Davis. Photography credit: Al Giese, Peter
Moore.
box 68
Bach
Physical Description:
4
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Al Giese.
box 68
Death and Sleep
Physical Description:
1
photograph
Scope and Content Note
Albert Reid and Trisha Brown. Photography credit: Al Giese.
box 68
Slow
Physical Description:
1
photograph
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Al Giese. "Bill and Judy."
box 68
Fast
Physical Description:
1
photograph
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Al Giese.
box 68
Rainer taking a bow at the end of
Terrain
Physical Description:
1
photograph
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Al Giese.
box 69
At My Body's House, State University
College, New Paltz, New York,
1964 January 30
Physical Description:
1
photograph
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore.
box 69
Three Seascapes, 1st and 2nd sections,
Stage 73, New York City,
1964 March 24
Physical Description:
3
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore.
box 69
Three Satie Spoons, Judson
Church,
1964
Physical Description:
12
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Rainer and Phil Corner.
box 69
Unidentified,
1964
Physical Description:
1
photograph
box 69
Some Thoughts on Improvisation, Once
Festival, Ann Arbor, MI,
1964 February 27
Physical Description:
1
photograph
box 69
Dialogues, Stage 73, New York
City,
1964 February 9
Physical Description:
10
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
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Lütfi Ozkök. "Sculpture" written on the verso of one
photograph.
Part of a Sextet,
1964-1965
box 69
Judson Church,
1964 June 30
Physical Description:
1
photograph
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore.
box 69
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT,
1965 March 7
Physical Description:
3
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Rainer and Robert Morris. Photography credit: Peter Moore.
Parts of Some Sextets,
1965-1966
box 69
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT,
1965 March 7
Physical Description:
5
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore.
box 69
Rehearsal, New York City,
1965
Physical Description:
22
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.
box 69
Judson Church,
1966 January 10
Physical Description:
5
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Phil MacMullan, Al Giese, Peter Moore.
box 69
1966 March 25
Physical Description:
8
contact sheets
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Phil MacMullan.
box 69
We Shall Run, Wadsworth Atheneum,
Hartford, CT,
1965 March 7
Physical Description:
1
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
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 March 25
Physical Description:
1 contact
sheets
Scope and Content Note
One 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
Scope and Content Note
1 photograph. Photography credit: Peter Moore.
box 69
Rainer back stage at Dick Higgins Opera,
Hrusalk,
1965 Dec
Physical Description:
1
photograph
Scope and Content Note
Rainer wearing a lead brassiere constructed by Robert Morris.
box 69
George Brecht photo-collage
Physical Description:
1
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 January 10
Physical Description:
2
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore.
box 69
9 Evenings: Theatre and
Engineering
,
1966
Physical Description:
1
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 October 15
Physical Description:
22
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.
Trio A,
1965-1981
Scope and Content Note
Most of the images are of Rainer alone. See also negatives in Box 94.
box 70
Rainer's studio, New York City,
1965 November 26
Physical Description:
2
contact sheets
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore.
box 70
Studio photographs,
1965
Physical Description:
3
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Zachary Freyman.
box 70
1966 May 24
Physical Description:
3
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 February 2
Physical Description:
2
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore.
box 70
Final sequence of
The Mind is a
Muscle
,
1968
Physical Description:
1
photograph
box 70
People's Flag Show, Judson Church,
1970 November 9
Physical Description:
10
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
items
Scope and Content Note
Two photographic prints, three contact sheets.
box 70
Portland Center for Visual Arts,
1973
Physical Description:
2
photographs
box 70
Theater for the New City, New York City,
16 March 1973
Physical Description:
2
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
photograph
box 70
Stephen Koch,
circa 1975
Physical Description:
1
photograph
box 70
Studio photograph of Rainer,
1981
Physical Description:
1
photograph
Performance Demonstration, Library and
Museum of Performing Arts,
1968 September 16
box 70
Trio A during
Performance Demonstration
Physical Description:
6
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Steve Paxton, Rainer, Becky Arnold. Photography credit: Peter Moore.
box 70
Rehearsal
Physical Description:
1
photograph
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore.
box 70
Slides of stairs projected during performance
Physical Description:
2
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore.
Performance
Demonstration
(?),
Physical Description:
1
contact sheets
Scope and Content Note
Negative sheet given this tentative identification; contact sheet was grouped
with contact sheets for 1970, 1971 performances. See also negative sheet in Box
94.
The Mind is a Muscle,
1966-1968
Scope and Content Note
See also
Trio A in Box 70.
box 71
Judson Church,
1966
Scope and Content Note
3 photographs. 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
Scope and Content Note
2 photographs. Photography credit: Peter Moore
box 71
Trio B, 2nd part from 1st version of
The Mind is a Muscle, Judson
Church,
1966 May 24
Scope and Content Note
2 photographs. Photography credit: Peter Moore
box 71
Mat rehearsal, for New
School,
1967 September
Scope and Content Note
2 photographs. Becky Arnold, William Davis for Choreo-concerts at the New
School. Photography credit: Julie Abeles.
box 71
Riverside Church,
1968 October 19
Scope and Content Note
2 photographs. 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
Scope and Content Note
1 photograph.
box 71
Location unknown
1968
Scope and Content Note
1 photograph. Photography credit: Ted Wester.
Anderson Theater, New York City,
1968 April 11
Trio B (Running) rehearsal
Scope and Content Note
1 photograph. Barbara Dilley, Becky Arnold, Gay Delangle. Photography credit:
Julie Abeles.
box 71
Trio B, 2nd part,
rehearsal
Scope and Content Note
6 photographs. Photography credit: Julie Abeles.
box 71
Trio A,
The Mind
is a Muscle
Scope and Content Note
9 photographs. Barbara Dilley, Becky Arnold, Gay Delanghe watch Steve.
Photography credit: Peter Moore.
box 71
Act
Scope and Content Note
1 photograph. Photography credit: Peter Moore.
box 71
Mat
Scope and Content Note
1 photograph. Photography credit: Peter Moore. Becky finishes "Mat" as
Paxton, Gordon, and Rainer watch
box 71
Trio B, 2nd part
Scope and Content Note
1 photograph. Photography credit: Peter Moore.
box 71
Stairs, and
Mat, rehearsal
Scope and Content Note
1 photograph. Photography credit: Peter Moore. Becky (and Bill Davis) finish
Mat as 2nd routine of Stairs occurs.
box 71
Stairs and
Mat, performance
Scope and Content Note
1 photograph. Photography credit: Peter Moore.
box 71
Stairs, rehearsal
Scope and Content Note
2 photographs. Photography credit: Julie Abeles.
box 71
Contact sheets
Scope and Content Note
6 contact sheets. Photography credit: Julie Abeles.
box 71
Stairs, rehearsal and contact
sheet
Scope and Content Note
4 items. Rehearsal and performance.
box 71
Stairs, performance
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore (six photographs) and Julie Abeles (two
photographs).
box 71
Before
Mat, performance
Scope and Content Note
1 photograph. Becky Arnold (?) perhaps with Bill Davis before they do "Mat."
Photography credit: Ted Wester.
box 71
Act
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore (three photographs), and Ted Wester (two
photographs).
box 71
Horses
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Ted Wester (one photograph) and Peter Moore (one
photograph).
box 71
Lecture
Scope and Content Note
3 photographs. Photography credit: Peter Moore (two photographs).
box 71
Film
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore (two photographs) and Julie Abeles (three
photographs).
box 71
Film, rehearsal at Judson Church
gym,
1968
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
items
Scope and Content Note
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 February 3
Physical Description:
30
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 contact
sheets
box 73
Line,
1969
Physical Description:
10
items
Scope and Content Note
Ten stills from
Line, with Susan Marshal, a 16mm
film shot by Phil Niblock.
Connecticut Composite, Connecticut
College,
1969 July 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
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
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
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Includes view of "Chair-Pillow" section. Performers: Becky Arnold, David
Gordon, Rainer, Douglas Dunn, Barbara Dilley. Photography credit:
Unidentified.
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.
Continuous Project - Altered Daily,
Amherst,
1969
box 74
Contact sheets
Physical Description:
19
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
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Susan Horwitz.
box 74
Continuous Project - Altered Daily,
Whitney Museum of Art,
1970 April
Physical Description:
20
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore; see also Box 79 for his contact sheets.
box 74
Continuous Project - Altered
Daily
,
1970?
Physical Description:
6
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 May 2
Physical Description:
2
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Street action protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia.
box 75
Douglas College,
1970 November 6
Physical Description:
34
contact sheets
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: James Klosty. Three sets of contact sheets. See also
negatives in Box 94.
New York University,
1970-1971
box 75
1970 November 22
Physical Description:
6
items
Scope and Content Note
Three photographs, three contact sheets. Photographer: Peter Moore
box 75
Downstairs,
1970 November 22
Physical Description:
35
contact sheets
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Susan Horwitz (and ?). See also negatives in Box 94.
box 75
Upstairs,
1971 January 4
Physical Description:
10
contact sheets
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Susan Horwitz (and ?). See also negatives in Box 94.
box 75
1971 January 4
Physical Description:
3
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
contact sheets
Scope and Content Note
See also negatives in Box 94.
box 76
Unidentified,
1970? 1971?
Physical Description:
4 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 (?).
Emmanuel Midtown YM-YWHA, N.Y.C.,
1971 May 16
box 76
Susan Horowitz photographer
Physical Description:
18
photographs
Scope and Content Note
See also four negatives in Box 94.
box 76
James Klosty photographer
Physical Description:
13
items
Scope and Content Note
Five photographs, eight contact sheets.
box 76
Photographer unknown
Physical Description:
1
photograph
Scope and Content Note
David Gordon and Yvonne Rainer.
box 76
Location unknown,
1971
Physical Description:
12
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
photograph
Hofstra University,
1972 March 21
Scope and Content Note
See also Box 130*.
box 77
Peter Moore photographer
Physical Description:
3
photographs
box 77
Elisabeth Mangolt photographer
Physical Description:
7
photographs
Whitney Museum,
1972 April 21
box 77
Peter Moore photographer
Physical Description:
9
photographs
box 77
Elisabeth Mangolt photographer
Physical Description:
34
photographs
box 84
Art piece in the form of a small box, made for Rainer
Physical Description:
1
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
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Frame enlargements.
This Is the Story of a Woman
Who...
,
1972-1973
box 78
Festival d'Automne à Paris, Musée de la Ville, Paris,
1972 November 15
Physical Description:
6
contact sheets
Scope and Content Note
See also negatives in Box 94.
Theater for the New City,
1973 March 16
box 78
Photography credit: Babette Mangolte
Physical Description:
75
items
Scope and Content Note
Contact sheets and photographs.
box 78
Photographer unknown
Physical Description:
3
photographs
box 78
Photography credit: Peter Moore
Physical Description:
1
photograph
Scope and Content Note
Theater for the New City?
box 79
Three Satie Spoons, Theater for the New
City,
1973
Physical Description:
1
photograph
box 79
Inner Appearances,
1973
Physical Description:
1
photograph
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore.
box 79
Film About a Woman Who...,
1974
Physical Description:
15
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Frame enlargements.
box 79
Kristina (For a ...Novella),
1974 or 1975
Physical Description:
16
items
Scope and Content Note
Nine photographs, five contact sheets of either the performance at S.U.N.Y.,
Purchase, 1974 October 11, or the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1975 May 17 and
18. Photographer: Babette Mangolte.
box 79
Kristina Talking Pictures,
1976
Physical Description:
20
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
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
photographs
Scope and Content Note
On back of 2 photographs: Copyright, Ulrike Ottinger. See also poster in Box
144*, f.5.
Peter Moore contact prints,
1963-1973
box 80
1963-1968
Physical Description:
79
contact sheets
box 81
1969-1973
Physical Description:
51
contact sheets
box 82
Journeys From Berlin / 1971,
1978-1980
Physical Description:
38
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 contact
sheets
box 82
The Man Who Envied Women,
1984
Physical Description:
18
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Frame enlargements.
box 82
Privilege,
1990
Physical Description:
53
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
items
Scope and Content Note
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
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
items
Scope and Content Note
23 of the photographs for this exhibition are reproduced on post card exhibition
notices.
box 83
Unidentified photographs,
undated
Physical Description:
41
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.
Large format photographs,
1963-1999
box 85, folder 2
Rainer made up for Steve Paxton's
English,
Judson Church dressing room,
1963
Scope and Content Note
1 photograph.
box 85, folder 5
Slow,
1983
Physical Description:
1
photograph
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Peter Moore. Trisha Brown and three other dancers.
box 85, folder 6
Play,
1963
Physical Description:
1
photograph
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Al Hansen.
box 85, folder 7
Ball and Solo,
1963
Physical Description:
2
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Al Hansen.
box 85, folder 8-9
Love,
1963
Physical Description:
4
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Rainer and William Davis. Photography credit: Al Hansen.
box 86, folder 1
Treatment of a Peter Moore photograph by William George Linich (Billy
Name),
circa 1963
Scope and Content Note
9 photographs. 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
Scope and Content Note
3 photographs.
box 86, folder 5
Three Seascapes, Stage 73,
1964
Scope and Content Note
2 photographs. Rainer performing.
box 86, folder 8
Andy Warhol, Rainer and Barbara Rose,
1964
Scope and Content Note
1 photograph. Photography credit: David McCabe.
box 87, folder 1-5
Trio A,
1965
Scope and Content Note
10 photographs. Photography credit: Zachary Freyman. Two copies each of five
images.
box 88, folder 1-3
Continuous Project - Altered Daily,
Whitney Museum of Art,
1970 April
Scope and Content Note
21 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
Scope and Content Note
21 items. Photography credit: James Klosty.
box 88, folder 5
Inner Appearances,
1973
Scope and Content Note
1 photograph.
box 89, folder 1
Kristina Talking Pictures,
1976
Scope and Content Note
1 copy photo of a magazine or newspaper image of James Cagney.
box 89, folder 2
Journeys From Berlin/1971,
1978
Scope and Content Note
2 photographs.
box 89, folder 3
Trio A,
1981
Scope and Content Note
Three photographs mounted on board. Photographer: Jack Mitchell.
box 89, folder 4
Trio A Pressured,
1999
Scope and Content Note
19 photographs. Photography credit: Christian Uhl.
Personal photographs,
1958-1969, undated
box 85, folder 1
Portraits of Rainer,
circa 1958
Physical Description:
2
photographs
box 86, folder 2
Lucinda Childs portrait,
1963
Physical Description:
1
photograph
box 86, folder 4
Portraits of Rainer, Stockholm,
circa 1964
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Two photographs, one contact sheet.
box 86, folder 6
Rainer in studio,
circa 1964
Physical Description:
2
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
photographs
box 87, folder 6
Rainer and Steve Paxton,
circa 1969
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Two prints of the same image.
box 89, folder 5
Portrait of Rainer,
undated
Physical Description:
1
photograph
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.
Color photographs,
circa 1962-2004, undated
box 90
Rainer in George Sugarman's studio,
circa 1962
Physical Description:
1
photograph
box 90
Rainer and James Lee Byers in Byers event at the Green Gallery, New
York,
1963
Physical Description:
2
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
photographs
Scope and Content Note
The subjects of the 19 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 December 2
Physical Description:
11
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
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, 2001
Scope and Content Note
2 photographs. 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 January
Physical Description:
13
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
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes 28 photographs and 49 Polaroids.
box 90
Barbara Haas,
1995
Physical Description:
9
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Personal photographs of Barbara Haas, cast member of
MURDER
and murder
.
box 91
Privilege,
circa 1990
Physical Description:
114
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 September 23
Physical Description:
1
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
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
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
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
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
Physical Description:
1
photograph
box 131*, folder 2
Rainer and a man playing catch in a white room
Physical Description:
1
photograph
box 131*, folder 2
Rainer in a dance studio
Physical Description:
4
photographs
box 131*, folder 2
Story of a Woman Who...
Physical Description:
4
photographs
Scope and Content Note
4 interpositives for posters, fliers.
Negatives,
1964-2000, undated
box 94
Trio A, San Francisco,
1964
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Two sheets of negatives.
box 94
North East Passing, "printed
slides,"
undated
Physical Description:
4
negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: David Vivian. The negatives are 4 x 5.
box 94
Performance Demonstration (?),
circa 1968
Physical Description:
1
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
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.
Connecticut Composite, Connecticut
College,
1969
box 94
Rehearsal,
1969 July 12
Physical Description:
12
items
Scope and Content Note
The negatives are 4 x 5 in. See also Box 74 for nine photographic prints.
box 94
Photography credit: Ellen Levene,
1969
Physical Description:
6
items
Scope and Content Note
Negative sheets. One roll of film per negative sheet. See also Box 74 for
photographs.
Continuous Project, Altered
Daily
,
1969-1970
box 94
Amherst,
1969
Physical Description:
18
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
items
Scope and Content Note
Negatives are 4 x 5 in.
box 94
Whitney Museum of American Art,
1970 March 31-April 2
Physical Description:
15
negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: Susan Horowitz.
box 94
Douglas College,
1970 November 6
Physical Description:
24
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
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 January 4
Physical Description:
5
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
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
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.
Story of a Woman Who ...,
1972-1973
box 94
Festival d'Automne à Paris, Musée de la Ville, Paris,
1972 November 15
Physical Description:
4
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 March 16
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
2 pages of negative strips.
box 94
Journeys From Berlin/1971,
1978-1980
Physical Description:
10
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
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
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
items
Scope and Content Note
One negative is unidentified.
box 94
White Oak Plantation, Florida,
2000 January
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Two sheets of color negatives. Photographer: Deborah Hay? Film roll number 13956,
63823 and 63824.
box 94
Unidentified,
undated
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
Five images of individual men and women on a carpeted staircase. Photographer:
Babette Mangolte. See also photographs in Box 83.
Slides,
1957-1976, undated
box 95
Portraits of Rainer,
1957-1958
Physical Description:
5
slides
box 95
"Running Dance" diagram for
We Shall
Run
,
1963
Physical Description:
1
transparency
Scope and Content Note
Drawing / diagram from notebook. See also Box 1, folder 5.
box 95
Carriage Discreteness,
1966
Physical Description:
10
slides
box 95
Slides used in
North East Passing, Goddard
College,
1968
Physical Description:
315
slides
Scope and Content Note
Photography credit: David Vivian.
box 95
Billy Rose, "Lenny Bruce et. al.,"
circa 1969
Physical Description:
20
slides
box 95
Group Hoist,
Continuous Project-Altered
Daily
,
1969 or 1970
Physical Description:
51
slides
box 95
Slides of
Grand Union Dreams and text
slides,
1972
Physical Description:
39
slides
Scope and Content Note
Used for
Performance?
box 95
Ruth Rainer,
1972
Physical Description:
1
slide
Scope and Content Note
Rainer's niece.
box 96
New photos for John Renfrew,
undated
Physical Description:
27
slides
box 96
Unidentified slides,
undated
Physical Description:
4
slides
box 96
Stairs,
The Mind is a
Muscle
,
1966-1968
Physical Description:
237
slides
box 97
Inner Appearances,
circa 1972-1973
Physical Description:
47
slides
box 97
A Woman Who...,
1973 or 1974
Physical Description:
114
slides
Scope and Content Note
Slides includes slides from
Film About a Woman
Who...
and
Performance Around a Woman
Who...
.
box 97
Kristina (For a Opera),
1975
Physical Description:
26
slides
box 97
Kristina Talking Pictures,
1976
Physical Description:
86
slides
box 98
Italian postcards,
undated
Physical Description:
9
slides
box 97
Pergamum Altar,
undated
Physical Description:
5
slides
box 97
Solar system,
undated
Physical Description:
8
slides
Scope and Content Note
Slides from Hale Observatories.
box 97
Duplicates, old photos,
undated
Physical Description:
39
slides
box 97
Unidentified slides originally in metal slide box,
undated
Physical Description:
84
slides
box 98
Psycho stills,
undated
Physical Description:
39
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,
undated
Physical Description:
28
slides
Series VIII.
Audiovisual materials,
circa 1963-2003
Physical Description:
69 Linear
Feet
(89 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
The audiovisual series contains more than 270 audio and video recordings and films.
Included are documentation of Rainer's dance performances and rehearsals, music for
dance performances, Rainer's films, interviews with Rainer, lectures, and videos by
others. This series is arranged alphabetically. In some instances, works are represented
by multiple formats, which may be duplicative.
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.
Arrangement note
This series is arranged alphabetically. Where multiple performances of the same piece
are present, they are listed in chronological order. In some instances, works are
represented by multiple formats.
Audio material,
1968-1990, undated
box 101, item R27
9 Evenings interview,
undated
9 Evenings interview (digitized version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
Soundtrack for
The Mind Is a Muscle. 1 sound tape
reel : 7 in.
box 100, item C23
[Australia Radio Talk]
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
box 101.c, item R11
Bessie Smith Empty Bed Blues I,
II,
undated
Bessie Smith Empty Bed Blues I, II (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel : 7 in.
box 101.a, item R1
Cal Arts,
1975 February 13
Cal Arts (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel : 7 1/2 ips, stereo, 7 in.
box 100, item C17
Cath Kenneally talking to Rainer, Adelaide,
1990 August 13
Cath Kenneally talking to Rainer, Adelaide (digital version available on-site
only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
box 102.a, item R26
Class Moving Definitions: for Yvonne Rainer,
undated
Class Moving Definitions: for Yvonne Rainer (digital version available on-site
only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel : 5 in., recorded at 3 3/4 ips
box 99, item C7
David Misam,
undated
David Misam (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
box 99, item C14
David Misam,
undated
David Misam (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
box 101.a, item R2
Dilexi #8 Rainer 5 cuts,
undated
Dilexi #8 Rainer 5 cuts (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel : 7 in.
box 99, item C1
Frank Muggia,
1985 May 8
Frank Muggia (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
box 100, item C15a-b
Gloria-Larkspur,
1988 January 16
Scope and Content Note
2 sound cassettes.
box 102.a, item R23
Gordon Mumma. Rainer music, Tape A,
1968 July
Gordon Mumma. Rainer music, Tape A (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
Boulder, Colorado, Mexico City. 1 sound tape reel : 7 1/2 ips, 5 in.
box 102.a, item R24
Gymnopedia - Corner Greig
Sonatas,
undated
Gymnopedia - Corner Greig Sonatas (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel : 5 in.
box 101.a, item R4
John Talking,
undated
John Talking (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel : 7 in.
box 99, item C8
Judson Interview,
1981
Judson Interview (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
box 101.c, item R10
KDS möte Sarabrottskolan,
undated
KDS möte Sarabrottskolan (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
Large number "2" on front of box. 1 sound tape reel : 7 in.
box 101, item R12
Kristina,
undated
Kristina (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel : 7 in.
box 101, item R15
Lecture Demo II,
undated
Lecture Demo II (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
On back of box: Tiomkin, Buzzer, Horses, Rainer. 1 sound tape reel (13 1/2 min.) :
7 in.
box 99, item C10
Lives of Performers,
undated
Lives of Performers (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
box 102.a, item R20
Morris - Rainer 9 1/2,
undated
Morris - Rainer 9 1/2 (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel : 5 in.
box 101, item R16
Music for Duet section from
Terrain (1963),
Philip Corner and Bach ("Ich Habe Genug") music,
undated
Music for Duet section from Terrain (1963), Philip Corner and Bach ("Ich Habe
Genug") music (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel : 7 in.
box 102.a, item R17-R18
North East Passing,
undated
Scope and Content Note
R17 and R18 were determined to be duplicates of R8 and were not reformatted.
box 101.c, item R8
North East Passing, Dance C tape
D,
undated
North East Passing, Dance C tape D (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel : 7 in.
box 101, item R13
On tape - T-Y-R, BFVF [Boston Film Video Foundation?],
1979 December 6
On tape - T-Y-R, BFVF [Boston Film Video Foundation?] (digital version
available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
[Reel without box]. 1 sound tape reel : 7 in.
box 101, item R14
"Parts of the Body" lecture,
undated
"Parts of the Body" lecture (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel : 7 in.
box 101.b, item R7
Performance Demonstration #1,
undated
Performance Demonstration #1 (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
Written on box: Music lecture, Tiomkin,
Trio A
Lecture, Rehearsal lecture and door banging Chamber Bros. 1 sound tape reel : 7
in.
box 99, item C4
Peter Wollen ABC Cinema,
undated
Peter Wollen ABC Cinema (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
box 99, item C6
Rainer,
1977
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette. C6 is blank and therefore was not reformatted.
box 99, item C3
Rainer CAA (College Art Association) talk,
undated
Rainer CAA (College Art Association) talk (digital version available on-site
only)
Scope and Content Note
Other side labeled: Vito Acconci, Joan Jonas. 1 sound cassette.
box 102.a, item R19
Rainer,
We Shall Run, Berlioz,
undated
Rainer, We Shall Run, Berlioz (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel : 5 in.
box 102.a, item R22
Seascapes [crossed-out],
undated
Seascapes [crossed-out] (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel : 5 in.
box 125, item D2
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Rainer,
Y.
,
1991
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Rainer, Y. (digital version
available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
CD labeled "1 of 2"; number 2 is not present. 1 sound disc (Compact disc) : digital
; 4 3/4 in.
box 102.a, item R25
"Sleep" tape for Corridor Solo the first section of
Part of a Sextet,
undated
"Sleep" tape for Corridor Solo the first section of Part of a Sextet (digital
version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
Performed by Rainer and Robert Morris. 1 sound tape reel : 5 in.
box 99, item C9a-c
[Steve] Paxton - Rainer,
1974 December
[Steve] Paxton - Rainer (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
3 sound cassettes of 3. Sides of cassettes numbered 3-7.
box 99, item C5
[Steve] Paxton - Rainer,
undated
[Steve] Paxton - Rainer (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
box 99, item C11
Susan Love, Dana Farber,
1985 June 17
Susan Love, Dana Farber (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
box 100, item C21
Suskind, interview with Sharon Hunt,
undated
Suskind, interview with Sharon Hunt (digital version available on-site
only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
box 102.a, item R21
Tape for
Performance Fractions for the West
Coast,
undated
Tape for Performance Fractions for the West Coast (digital version available
on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel : 5 in.
box 100, item C20
Tea for Two, Rainer, Simone Forti, a
conversation,
1980
Tea for Two, Rainer, Simone Forti, a conversation (digital version available
on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
M. R. benefit. 1 sound cassette.
box 99, item C2
Trisha [Brown] - Rainer,
1985 August 10
Trisha [Brown] - Rainer (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
box 99, item C12
Tuba Miram Requiem Berliosz,
undated
Tuba Miram Requiem Berliosz (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
box 100, item C18
Yvonne Rainer and Ramona Koval, Melbourne,
1990 August 7
Yvonne Rainer and Ramona Koval, Melbourne (digital version available on-site
only)
Scope and Content Note
Interview on 3LO Australian Radio. 1 sound cassette.
box 101.b, item R6
Yvonne tape #2, Dreams from
In the
College,
undated
Yvonne tape #2, Dreams from In the College (digital version available on-site
only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel : 7 1/2 ips, 7 in.
box 101.b, item R5a-b
Unidentified,
undated
Unidentified (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
2 sound tape reels : 7 in. C5b was determined to be blank and was not
reformatted.
box 99, item C13
Unidentified with ornate purple label of shell designs,
undated
Unidentified with ornate purple label of shell designs (digital version
available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
box 101.c, item R9
Unlabeled except for a large number "1,"
undated
Unlabeled except for a large number 1 (digital version available on-site
only)
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel : 7 in.
box 125, item D1
[Untitled: 9 Tracks],
undated
Untitled: 9 Tracks (digital version available on-site only)
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]." 1 sound disc (Compact disc) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
box 102.b
Original boxes: R17-R26,
undated
Film and video recordings,
1969-2003, undated
After Many a Summer Dies the
Swan
2000, 2002, undated
box 120, item V136
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan:
Hybrid
,
2002
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: Hybrid (digital version available on-site
only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS) (31 min.)
box 120, item V109
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan,
BAM,
2000 June
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, BAM (digital version available on-site
only)
Scope and Content Note
Commissioned by the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation. 1 videocassette (VHS). Use copy
available, see DVD7.
box 125c, item DVD7
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan,
BAM,
undated
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, BAM (digital version available on-site
only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videodisc (DVD) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. DVD7 is available for use.
box 100, item C16
Audrey and part of Gloria Martocchia,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 Video8 cassette.
box 111, item V62
Beyond the Mainstream : Dance in America
series,
1980 May 8
Scope and Content Note
Information on original cassette label: Cassette machine no. 3, Eng.: PD, copied
from no. 13259B. 1 videocassette (U-matic).
Chair Pillow
2001, undated
box 108, item V43
Canyon College,
2001
Chair Pillow, Canyon College (digital version available on-site only)
box 108, item V42
Dennison U rehearsal,
undated
Chair Pillow, Dennison U rehearsal (digital version available on-site
only)
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
Charles Atlas, Rainer Variations: Move #1 and #2 (digital version available
on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
Richard Move, actor who impersonates Martha Graham (?). 2 videocassettes
(DVCam).
box 116, item V86a-b
Rainer / Graham #1 and #2
Charles Atlas, Rainer Variations: Rainer / Graham #1 and #2 (digital version
available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
Rainer with Richard Move as Martha Graham (?). 2 videocassettes (DVCam).
box 116, item V87a-b
Atlas / [Kathleen] Chalfant #1 and #2
Charles Atlas, Rainer Variations: Atlas / [Kathleen] Chalfant #1 and #2
(digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
2 videocassettes (DVCam).
box 117, item V88-V89
Y1 and Y2,
2001 May 23
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"?]. 2
videocassettes (VHS).
Continuous Project, Altered
Daily,
1969-1970, 2000
Connecticut rehearsals,
1969-1970
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].
box 125a, item DVD2
Connecticut Rehearsal,
1969 July
Continuous Project, Altered Daily, Connecticut Rehearsal (digital version
available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videodisc (DVD) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. F22 and F23 use copy available, see
DVD2.
box 119, item V103
Connecticut Rehearsal,
1969 July
Connecticut Rehearsal (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
Early rehearsal of Rainer's
Continuous Project, Altered
Daily
, shot by Michael Fajans at Connecticut College. 1 videocassette
(VHS). See DVD copy in Box 125.
box 111, item V59-V60
Connecticut Rehearsal and Whitney Museum Performance,
1969 July, 1970 March 31
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (Betacam SP) : 30 min. 50 sec.; 1 videocassette (U-matic) : 30
min. 50 sec. With: Whitney Museum Performance, 1970 March 31 (11 min.).
box 167, item F22
Film negative
1969-1970
Scope and Content Note
Negative is recent (circa 2000). 1 film reel of 1 : si., black and white ; 16
mm. See also DVD 2.
box 168, item F23
Film print,
1969-1970
Scope and Content Note
Kodak 1969 A-wind reversal print. Leader: "Connecticut rehearsals / Altered
Daily - A wind rev. print." Some perforation damage. 1 film reel of 1 : si.,
black and white ; 16 mm. See also DVD 2.
box 154, item F27
[Out-takes,
Continuous
Projects
],
circa 1970
Out-takes, Continuous Projects (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
Leader: "out-takes continuous projects." Various performance footage out-takes.
No leader on head or tail. 1 film reel of 1 : si., black and white ; 16 mm.
Whitney Museum,
1970, 2000
Scope and Content Note
See also: Connecticut Rehearsal, 1969 Jul; and Whitney Museum Performance, 1970
Mar 31, Box 111, V59-60.
box 169, item F24
Negative,
1970
Continuous Project, Altered Daily, Whitney Museum (digital version
available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
Kodak 1970 B-wind negative. Leader labeled: "John Cochran." Cement splices and
some edge repair. Slight vinegar odor. Yvonne Rainer & Co. ; Camera: David
Appel. 1 film reel of 1 : si., black and white ; 16 mm. Use copy available.
box 154, item F25
Negative,
circa 2000
Scope and Content Note
Negative is recent (circa 2000). 1 film reel of 1 : si., black and white ; 16
mm.
box 170, item F26
Work print,
1970, 2000
Scope and Content Note
AGFA work print. Numerous cement splices of varying quality. Yvonne Rainer
& Co.; Camera: David Appel. 1 film reel of 1 : si., black and white ; 16
mm.
box 153, item F20
Negative,
1970
Scope and Content Note
Kodak 1970 high contrast negative. Can label: "hi con neg." No leader on head or
tail. A high contrast negative of dance footage. 1 film reel of 1 : si., black and
white ; 16 mm.
box 153, item F21
Print,
1970
Scope and Content Note
Kodak 1970 high contrast print. No leader on head or tail. A high contrast print
of dance footage. 1 film reel of 1 : si., black and white ; 16 mm.
Dance Fractions for the West
Coast
,
1969
box 119, item V104
Dance Fractions for the West
Coast
,
circa 1969
Dance Fractions for the West Coast (digital version available on-site
only)
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. 1 videocassette (VHS) (51 min.) : black and white,
and color. Use copy available, see DVD3.
box 125b, item DVD3
Dance Fractions for the West
Coast
,
1969
Dance Fractions for the West Coast (digital version available on-site
only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videodisc (DVD) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. DVD3 is available for use.
[
Dance - Minneapolis],
1974-1975
box 182-183, item F38a-b
Negative,
1975
Scope and Content Note
Kodak ECN 1975 color negative. Label on can: "Dance-Minneapolis orig. color neg."
Label on tail: "5/22/75 Yvonne Rainer." Reel 1 is labeled as "Kristina #1-3"; reel
2 is labeled as "Kristina #4-5." 2 film reels of 2 : si., color ; 16 mm.
box 184-185, item F39a-b
Print,
1974
Scope and Content Note
Kodak 1974 faded color print. Label on can: "Dance-Minneapolis color print." Reel
1 labeled as "Kristina #1-3; reel 2 labeled as "Kristina #4-5." 2 film reels of 2
: si., color ; 16 mm.
box 121, item V110
Eye on Dance,
1990
Eye on Dance (digital version available on-site only)
Physical Description:
1
videocassette
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS) (28 min., 35 sec.) 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 164, item F15
[Fajans],
1969
Scope and Content Note
Kodak 1969 reversal camera roll. Can label: "Fajans." Possibly shot by Michael
Fajans. Original camera roll with imagery of street corner, cars, pedestrians. 1
film reel of 1 : si., black and white ; 16 mm.
Film About a Woman Who...,
1975, 1978, 1980
Scope and Content Note
See also:
The Yvonne Rainer Collection, A Zeitgeist Films
Release
for additional copy.
box 127, item V132
Film About a Woman Who...,
1972
Scope and Content Note
1 video reel.
box 178, item F36
Master,
1975
Scope and Content Note
Kodak 1975 fine grain master. Can label: "'Woman who...' - Castilli b/w test -
fine grain master." 1 film reel of 1 : sd., black and white ; 16 mm. master
positive.
box 179-181, item F37a-c
Print,
1978,
1980
Scope and Content Note
Kodak 1980 black and white print and Kodak 1978 color print. Reel 1 is black and
white, and color, reels 2 and 3 are black and white only. [See screen titles]. 3
film reels of 3 : sd., black and white; color; 16 mm. print.
box 124, item V125-V131
Grand Union,
1972 May
Grand Union (digital version available on-site only)
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. 7 videocassettes (VHS).
box 160, item F8
Negative,
1968
Scope and Content Note
Negative is recent (circa 2000). 1 film reel of 1 : si., black and white ; 16
mm.
box 160, item F9
Print, no splices,
1968
Hand Movie; Print, no splices (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
Kodak print off reversal. No splices, very good condition. 1 film reel of 1 :
si., black and white ; 16 mm.
box 160, item F10
Print, cement splices,
1968
Scope and Content Note
Kodak 1964 reversal 16mm positive [blow-up from 8mm?]. Cement splices. 1 film
reel of 1 : si., black and white ; 16 mm. Use copy available.
box 100, item C22
Helen Meglen,
1988 January 24
Scope and Content Note
1 Video8 cassette.
In the College,
circa 1971-1972
box 154, item F28
Original
Scope and Content Note
Kodak PXR 1971 reversal 16mm. Some tape splices. 1 film reel of 1 : si., wblack
and white ; 16 mm.
box 171, item F29
Print
Scope and Content Note
AGFA Gevaert AS print off reversal original. No leader at tail. 1 film reel of 1
: si., black and white ; 16 mm.
box 154, item F30
Answer print
Scope and Content Note
AGFA Gevaert 12 answer print. 1 film reel of 1 : si., black and white ; 16
mm.
Interviews with Rainer and events at which she appeared,
1995, undated
Scope and Content Note
See also Box 125, DVD1, Screening Room, with Robert Gardner: Yvonne Rainer.
Arrangement note
Interviews are arranged chronologically.
box 106, item V26
Wexner Prize, Yvonne Rainer,
1995 May
Wexner Prize, Yvonne Rainer (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
box 106, item V27
Rainer and Lynne Tillman: A Conversation, Wexner Center,
1995 May 18
Rainer and Lynne Tillman: A Conversation, Wexner Center (digital version
available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS). Plus plus: cat listening to music (Chris Marker).
box 111, item V58
Rainer interview with Deborah Fort,
2000 January 13
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (Betacam SP).
box 121, item V112
Rainer interview with Deborah Fort,
2000 January 13
Rainer interview with Deborah Fort (digital version available on-site
only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
box 118, item V93a-V93b,
V94a-V94b
Rainer conversation,
2001 May 23
Rainer conversation (digital version available on-site only)
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." 4 videocassettes of 4 (mini DV).
box 122, item V115
Talking Dance: Sally Banes and Yvonne
Rainer,
2001 September 26
Talking Dance: Sally Banes and Yvonne Rainer (digital version available
on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS). At Walker Art Center Auditorium.
box 121, item V111a-c
Rainer, Barbara Moore, Carrie Lambert,
2002 February 1
Rainer, Barbara Moore, Carrie Lambert (digital version available on-site
only)
Scope and Content Note
3 videocassettes of 3 (VHS). All labeled as copy 2.
box 108, item V44
Rainer at Reed College,
2003 April 6
Rainer at Reed College (digital version available on-site only)
box 106, item V28
[Donahue - Women; Oprah Winfrey - Women aging],
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
box 118, item V90
Clinton interview,
undated
Clinton interview (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (mini DV).
box 122, item V116
Jacob's Pillow Festival,
2002 August 11
Jacob's Pillow Festival (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
Journeys from Berlin/1971,
1971, 1980, undated
box 112, item V63
Part I,
1971
Physical Description:
1
videocassette
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette of 3 (U-matic) (60 min.)
box 112, item V64
Part II,
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette of 3 (U-matic) (60 min.).
box 112, item V65
Part III,
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette of 3 (U-matic) (5 min.).
box 112, item V66-V67
Part II [excerpt],
1971
Scope and Content Note
2 videocassettes (U-matic) (30 min.). 2 copies
box 123, item V120
1980
Journeys from Berlin/1971, 1980 (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS) (125 min.) : black and white.
box 198-200, item F45a-c
Answer print,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Faded color. No leader. Vinegar odor. [See screen titles]. 3 film reels of 3 :
sd., color ; 16 mm.
box 195-197, item F44a-c
Print a,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Xenon print. Faded color. [See screen titles]. 3 film reels of 3 : sd., color ;
16 mm.
box 201-203, item F46a-c
Print c,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Xenon print. Faded color. [See screen titles]. 3 film reels of 3 : sd., color ;
16 mm.
box 114, item V73
The Judson Project,
undated
The Judson Project (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
"Time base dub." 1 videocassette (U-matic) (56 min, 10 sec.).
Kristina Talking Pictures,
1976
Scope and Content Note
See also:
The Yvonne Rainer Collection, A Zeitgeist Films
Release
for additional copy.
box 187-190, item F41a-d
Negative
Scope and Content Note
A-wind optical track negatives. Sound track only. 4 film reels of 4 : sd. ; 16
mm.
box 191-192, item F42a-b
Print b
Scope and Content Note
Faded color optical sound print. Very faded color. Reel 1 has vinegar syndrome -
acid strip test has been performed 2007 Mar 19. 2 film reels of 2 : sd., color ;
16 mm.
box 193-194, item F43a-b
Print c
Scope and Content Note
1976 faded color optical sound print. Very faded color print. No leader on head
or tail. Vinegar odor. [See screen titles]. 2 film reels of 2 : sd., color ; 16
mm.
box 108, item V39-V40
La Jolla Museum of Art,
1998 January 26
La Jolla Museum of Art (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
2 videocassettes (U-matic). Performed by Rainer.
box 100, item C19
La Jolla Museum, Performance,
1988 January 26
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette.
box 106, item V29
Lenny Bruce,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
box 165, item F16
Negative,
circa 2000
Scope and Content Note
Negative is recent (circa 2000). 1 film reel of 1 : si., black and white ; 16
mm.
box 153, item F17
Original,
1969
Scope and Content Note
Kodak 1969 reversal. Some edge damaged - repaired. 1 film reel of 1 : si., black
and white ; 16 mm.
box 153, item F18
Print (dark),
1969
Scope and Content Note
Kodak 1969 print. Can label: "Line film print (dark) sound speed." Color is dark
and the print is scratchy. 1 film reel of 1 : si., black and white ; 16 mm.
box 166, item F19
Print,
1969
Scope and Content Note
Kodak print off reversal. Leader labeled: "Line #1 - print #1." 1 film reel of 1
: si., black and white ; 16 mm.
Lives of Performers (1972),
1967, 1982
Scope and Content Note
See also:
The Yvonne Rainer Collection, A Zeitgeist Films
Release
for additional copy.
box 152, item F32
Valda's solo,
1967
Scope and Content Note
Kodak 1967 print. Excerpt from
Lives of
Performers
, Valda Setterfield, performer. Leader labeled: "Valda shows
Fernando her solo." 1 film reel of 1 : sd., black and white ; 16 mm. print.
box 172-173, item F31a-b
Print,
1982
Scope and Content Note
Kodak 1982 print. [see screen titles]. 2 film reels of 2 : sd., black and white ;
16 mm.
box 125, item DVD8-DVD9
Martha @ the Pillow,
undated
Martha @ the Pillow (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
Richard Move as Martha Graham; with Rainer at Jacob's Pillow. 2 video discs (DVD) :
digital ; 4 3/4 in.
box 121, item V113
Meetings with Xavier Le Roy, Berlin,
undated
Rainer meetings with Xavier Le Roy, Berlin (digital version available on-site
only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS). Use copy available.
box 177, item F35
[Ocean, Sarah, Ocean],
1972-1973
Scope and Content Note
Kodak PXR 1973 reversal and Kodak 1972 reversal. Contains imagery of the ocean and
a sleeping girl. Label on can: "ocean, Sarah, ocean." 1 film reel of 1 : si., black
and white ; 16 mm. print.
The People's Flag Show at Judson
Church,
1970
box 125d, item DVD5
DVD use copy,
1970 November 9
The People's Flag Show at Judson Church, DVD use copy (digital version
available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videodisc (DVD) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. DVD5 is available for use by qualified
researchers.
box 119, item V105
VHS copy,
1970
The People's Flag Show at Judson Church, VHS copy (digital version available
on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
May be a 1998 transfer of the original 1970 recording (?). 1 videocassette (VHS)
(32 min., 45 sec.). Use copy available, see DVD5.
box 174-175, item F33a-b
Original,
1971
Scope and Content Note
Kodak 4XR 1971 reversal camera rolls. Documentation of 'Performance 1972'
performed at Hofstra University, 1972 Mar 21. Reel 1 contains rolls 1-3 of footage
and reel 2 contains rolls 4-5 of footage from the Hofstra performance.
Cinematographer: Babette Mangolte. 1 film reel of 1 : sd., black and white ; 16
mm.
box 176, item F34
Print,
1971
Scope and Content Note
Kodak 4XR 1971 print off reversal original. Leader labeled: "Hofstra ; Mangolte
3.5097." Documentation of 'Performance 1972' performed at Hofstra University, 1972
Mar 21. Cinematographer: Babette Mangolte. 1 film reel of 1 : sd., black and white
; 16 mm.
Privilege,
1990, undated
Scope and Content Note
See also:
The Yvonne Rainer Collection, A Zeitgeist Films
Release
for additional copy.
box 103, item V1-V6
Australian Film Institute,
undated
Australian Film Institute; Privilege (digital version available on-site
only)
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. 6
videocassettes (VHS).
box 113, item V68
"I'm going to will menopause away,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
For
Privilege; plus excerpt from Faith interview.
1 videocassette (U-matic).
Interviews with women (for
Privilege),
undated
box 104, item V13
Audrey and Gloria #1
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
box 104, item V14
Audrey #1
Audrey #1 (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (Betacam).
box 105, item V17
Audrey #2, Gloria #1
Audrey #2, Gloria #1 (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (Betacam).
box 104, item V11
Videocassette
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
box 105, item V18
"T. Rainer Two, Privilege"
Gloria #2: 'T. Rainer Two, Privilege' (digital version available
on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
On original cassette case: "T. Rainer Two,
Privilege". 1 videocassette (Betacam).
box 104, item V12
And Los Gatos
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
box 105, item V19
"T. Rainer Two, Privilege"
Gloria #3: 'T. Rainer Two, Privilege' (digital version available
on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
On original cassette case: "T. Rainer Two,
Privilege". 1 videocassette (Betacam).
box 104, item V7
Videocassette
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
box 105, item V21
Reel 1
Gloria-Larkspur, Reel 1 (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (Betacam).
box 105, item V22
Reel 2
Gloria-Larkspur, Reel 2 (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (Betacam).
box 105, item V20
Gloria #4 and Los Gatos
Gloria #4 and Los Gatos (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (Betacam).
box 105, item V23
Reel 1
Minette Lehmann, Reel 1 (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (Betacam).
box 105, item V24
Reel 2
Minette Lehmann, Reel 2 (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (Betacam).
box 105, item V25
Videocassette
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
box 104-105, item V15-V16
Helene Moglen
Helene Moglen (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS) ; 1 videocassette (Betacam).
box 104, item V8
Videocassette
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
box 104, item V9
Reel 1
Shirley Triest, Reel 1 (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (Betacam).
box 104, item V10
Reel 2
Shirley Triest, Reel 2 (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (Betacam).
box 113, item V69-V70
Privilege source,
1990 February
Scope and Content Note
2 videocassettes of 2 (U-matic).
box 113, item V71
Reshoot,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-matic).
box 128, item V133
"Withdrawn,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
Note on label: "withdrawn." 1 video reel.
box 159, item F7
[Rainer face],
1968
Scope and Content Note
Kodak Ektachrome reversal camera roll. Original camera roll with image of Rainer's
face; good color. 1 film reel of 1 : si., black and white ; 16 mm. print.
box 101.a, item R3
Rainer Oct 70 Gym. choreography,
1970 October
Scope and Content Note
With note: return to Robert Devine. 1 video tape reel : 7 in., 1/2 in. tape.
box 119, item V100a-b
Rehearsal with Steve, pt. I, pt. II,
undated
Scope and Content Note
2 videocassettes of 2 (VHS).
Rhode Island Red,
1968, circa 2000
box 161, item F11
Negative,
circa 2000
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel of 1 : si., black and white ; 16 mm.
box 152, item F12
Print,
1968
Rhode Island Red: Print (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
Kodak B-wind print. 1 film reel of 1 : si., black and white ; 16 mm.
box 155, item F1a
Negative
Scope and Content Note
Negative is recent (circa 2000). 1 film reel of 1 : si., black and white ; 16
mm.
box 152, item F2
Print,
Scope and Content Note
This dance was first performed at the Judson Church in 1963 and again the next
year at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. This film could be
documentation of either of those Performances. Cement and tape splices, minor
water damage. Leader says: "'Room Service' - Alan R. Solomon." Kodak 1964 B-wind
print. 1 film reel of 1 : si., black and white ; 16 mm.
box 125, item DVD1
Screening Room With Robert
Gardner
,
2005
Screening Room With Robert Gardner (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
Originally recorded in March 1977, Yvonne Rainer appeared on
Screening Room with film scholar and author Deac Rossell, to screen and
discuss excerpts from her film
Kristina Talking
Pictures
1 videodisc (DVD) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
box 114, item V72
This is the Story of a Filmmaker Who...,
Film and Video Review,
1980
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-matic), master.
box 120, item V107, V134,
V135
Three Seascapes (1962),
2002
Three Seascapes (1962) (digital version available on-site only)
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. 1 videocassette (VHS). 3 copies.
Use copy available.
Trio A,
1966-2001, undated
box 156, item F3
Trio A (
The Mind
is a Muscle, Part 1
),
1966/1968, 1985-1986?
Scope and Content Note
The leader says: "University of Rochester: Trio A" and original can says: "'Trio
A' 1985-6;" no leader at head. 1 film reel of 1 : si., black and white ; 16 mm.
print.
box 125d, item DVD4
Trio A with Flags (1966), performed at the
opening of the
People's Flag Show, Judson
Church,
1970 November 9
Trio A with Flags (1966), performed at the opening of the People's Flag Show,
Judson Church (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videodisc (DVD) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. DVD4 is available for use by qualified
researchers.
Scope and Content Note
See related material under
The People's Flag Show
at Judson Church.
box 119, item V106
Trio A with Flags (1970), performed at the
opening of the People's Flag Show, Judson Church,
1970 November 9
Trio A with Flags (1970), performed at the opening of the People's Flag Show,
Judson Church (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS). Use copy available, see DVD4.
Scope and Content Note
See related material under
The People's Flag Show
at Judson Church.
box 111, item V61
Trio A, produced by Sally
Banes,
1978
Trio A, produced by Sally Banes (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-matic) (10 min.), master. Use copy available.
box 126, item DD1
Trio A,
1978
Scope and Content Note
Choreographed 1966, filmed 1978. On 1 laser disk [brand name] circa 1995. Use
copy available.
box 108, item V37
Danced by Wendy Perron,
1980 October 3
Danced by Wendy Perron (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-matic).
box 108, item V38
Trio A, Dancespace, Korean Broadcasting
Co.,
1982 April
Trio A, Dancespace, Korean Broadcasting Co. (digital version available
on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-matic). Performed by Rainer. Rehearsal.
box 107, item V34
Museum of Contemporary Art,
1995 September 28
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (Betacam SP).
box 119, item V102
Trio A Pressured, Rainer choreographer,
Movement Research at Judson Church,
1999 Oct 4
Trio A Pressured, Rainer choreographer, Movement Research at Judson Church
(digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
box 107, item V35
OSU, G. [Greg] Catellier, V. Tucker, C. Feck,
2001 February 20
OSU, G. [Greg] Catellier, V. Tucker, C. Feck (digital version available
on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (Betacam SP).
box 123, item V124
Cleaning of
Trio A with Yvonne
Rainer,
undated
Cleaning of Trio A with Yvonne Rainer (digital version available on-site
only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS). Portland, Oregon. Use copy available.
box 107, item V36
Dance in America,
Trio A,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 video reel. No audio.
box 119, item V101
Trio A: Rainer, Trisha [Brown],
Bob,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS). Note on label: "unique copy."
box 118, item V95-V99
Trio A rehearsal,
undated
Trio A rehearsal (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
Rainer teaching choreography to Steve Paxton in a studio. Cassette no. V97 has
"50 min. remain" written on label. 6 videocassettes (mini DV).
box 107, item V31-V33
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 videocassettes (Betacam SP).
Trio film,
1968, circa 2000
box 162, item F13
Negative,
circa 2000
Scope and Content Note
Negative is recent (circa 2000). 1 film reel of 1 : si., black and white ; 16
mm.
box 163, item F14
Print,
1968
Scope and Content Note
Can label: "Rainer - Niblock Trio Film." Lots of splices. 1 film reel of 1 : si.,
black and white ; 16 mm.
Volleyball (Foot Film),
1967, undated
box 157, item F4
Negative,
1967
Scope and Content Note
Negative is recent (circa 2000). 1 film reel of 1 : si., black and white ; 16
mm.
box 158, item F5
Work print,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Kodak 1963 work print. Leader says "Volleyball - Bud Wirtschler;" lots of tape
splices. 1 film reel of 1 : si., black and white ; 16 mm.
box 152, item F6
Print,
1967
Scope and Content Note
Kodak 1963 B-wind print from reversal. 1 film reel of 1 : si., black and white ;
16 mm.
box 186, item F40
[
Walker Art Center],
1975 May 16
Scope and Content Note
Kodak 1975 faded print. Label on can: "Walker Art Center - Yvonne Rainer 5-16-75
print." Very faded pink. No leader on tail. 1 film reel of 1 : sd., black and white
; 16 mm.
box 106, item V30
Weerklank, Ruth Rainer - Matthgs Wils,
1986 January
Weerklank, Ruth Rainer - Matthgs Wils (digital version available on-site
only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
box 108, item V41
We Shall Run, Bennington,
We Shall Run, Bennington (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-matic). Use copy available.
box 122, item V114
What Does She Want: Women with a Past,
Program 6,
1987
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS). 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.
White Oak Dance Project,
2000
box 115, item V74
#01 - 02
White Oak Dance Project, #01 - 02 (digital version available on-site
only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS). Use copy available.
box 115, item V75
#02 end - 04
White Oak Dance Project, #2 end - 04 (digital version available on-site
only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS). Use copy available.
box 115, item V76
#04 end, 05, 06
White Oak Dance Project, #4 end, 05, 06 (digital version available on-site
only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS). Use copy available.
box 115, item V77
#06 end, 07, 08
White Oak Dance Project, #06 end, 07, 08 (digital version available on-site
only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS). Use copy available.
box 115, item V78
#09, 10
White Oak Dance Project, #09, 10 (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS). Use copy available.
box 115, item V79
#11, 12
White Oak Dance Project, #11, 12 (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS). Use copy available.
box 116, item V80
#12 end, 13, 14
White Oak Dance Project, #12 end, 13, 14 (digital version available on-site
only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS). Use copy available.
box 116, item V81
#15, 16
White Oak Dance Project, #15, 16 (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS). Use copy available.
box 116, item V82
#17, 18
White Oak Dance Project, #17, 18 (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS). Use copy available.
box 116, item V83
#19, 20
White Oak Dance Project, #19, 20 (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS). Use copy available.
box 116, item V84
#21, 22
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
box 120, item V108
White Oak Dance Project, UCLA, Royce
Hall,
2000 October 28-29
White Oak Dance Project, UCLA, Royce Hall (digital version available on-site
only)
Scope and Content Note
Contents:
Talking Solo (1963);
Chair / Pillow (1970);
Trio A
Pressured
(1966). All choreographed by Rainer, performed 2000 Oct 28-29.
1 videocassette (VHS). Use copy available; see DVD 6.
box 125, item DVD6
White Oak Dance Project, UCLA Royce
Hall,
2000
White Oak Dance Project, UCLA Royce Hall (digital version available on-site
only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videodisc (DVD) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. See also V108.
box 125e, item DVD10
A Woman Who...Selected Works of Yvonne
Rainer
,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes
After Many a Summer Dies The Swan: Hybrid;
Rainer Variations;
Trio
A
;
Hand Movie;
Volleyball (Foot Film);
Rhode Island Red;
Trio Film;
Line.
Video Data Bank presents, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 2 videodiscs of
2 (DVD) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet.
Yvonne and Colin,
undated
Physical Description: 2 videocassettes (mini
DV)
box 118, item V92
Performance,
undated
Yvonne and Colin, Performance (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (mini DV).
box 118, item V91
Rehearsal,
undated
Yvonne and Colin, Rehearsal (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (mini DV).
The Yvonne Rainer Collection, A Zeitgeist Films
Release
,
1972-1996
box 122, item V117
Lives of Performers,
1972
Lives of Performers (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS) (90 min.) : black and white.
box 122, item V118
Film About a Woman Who...,
1974
Film About a Woman Who… (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS) (105 min.) : black and white.
box 122, item V119
Kristina Talking Pictures,
1976
Kristina Talking Pictures (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS) (90 min.) : black and white.
box 123, item V121
The Man Who Envied Women,
1985
The Man Who Envied Women (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS) (125 min.) : col.
box 123, item V122
Privilege,
1990
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS) (103 min.) : black and white, and color.
box 123, item V123
MURDER and murder,
1996
MURDER and murder (digital version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS) (113 min.) : col.
Videos by others,
1981, 1993, undated
box 110, item V53-V54
Abortion demonstration, [shot by?] Rainer. Madison Square
Garden,
1981 May 20
Abortion demonstration, [shot by?] Rainer. Madison Square Garden (digital
version available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
2 videocassettes of 2 (U-matic).
box 109, item V45
Anita Thatcher, Film and Video Works,
undated
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). 1 videocassette of 1 (VHS).
box 110, item V51
Dee Dee Halleck,
The Circus Burning : Der Zirkus
breint,
undated
Dee Dee Halleck, The Circus Burning : Der Zirkus breint (digital version
available on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
box 110, item V52
Margaret Stratton,
Kiss the Boys and Make them
Die,
undated
Margaret Stratton, Kiss the Boys and Make them Die (digital version available
on-site only)
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS) (30 min.).
box 109, item V47
Program #107:
The Individual and
Tradition
,
1993 Apr 12
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
box 109, item V48-V50
Signal to Noise: Life with Television.
Show One, Show Two, Show Three,
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 videocassettes of 3 (VHS).
box 109, item V46
Trudy Fruitcake,
Forbidden Fruitcake:
excerpts,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS) : 7 min.
box 110, item V55-V57
Unlabeled
Scope and Content Note
3 videocassettes (U-matic, VHS, and Betacam).
Series IX.
Oversize materials,
1871, 1967, 1980, circa 2000,
undated
Physical Description:
5 Linear
Feet
(2 boxes, 2 flatfile
folders)
Scope and Content Note
This series is comprised of posters, fliers, and wall labels that cannot be
thematically situated in other parts of the collection.
Arrangement note
This series is arranged topically.
box 135*, folder 2
The Night Face of North America,
Astronomy
Magazine
,
1980
box 136*, folder 5
Unidentified silk screen print on paper,
undated
box 136*, folder 7
Prostitution poster,
undated
box 136*, folder 9
Plan for the Palais de Justice Conciergerie,
1967 May
flatfile 7**
No-one admires your fears...Schuldt, Fulcrum Press, London,
undated
flatfile 9**
Exhibition wall labels,
circa 2000
Series X.
Writings about Rainer, dance and film,
1934-2013, undated
Physical Description:
7 Linear
Feet
(16 boxes, 1 flatfile
folder)
Scope and Content Note
The published writings in the first section are mostly articles about the work of
Rainer, but also include articles on other modern dance and film topics. Journal titles
and volume identification are provided. Article titles and page citations may be found
in the Biography in Series II, Box 21, folder 14. Journals represented include
Afterimage,
American Film,
Art in America,
Artforum,
Contact Quarterly,
Dance Magazine,
Idiolects,
Independent Eye,
Independent
Film and Video Monthly
,
October,
The New York Times Magazine, and
PAJ. The interviews in the second section were conducted between 1975 and
2000. The student writings date between 1979 and 2000.
Arrangement note
This series comprises three sections, each organized chronologically with undated
materials at the end: photocopies and off-prints of published journal articles;
interviews of Rainer; and student writings.
Published writings,
1934-2013, undated
Scope and Content Note
Issue of journal and typescript of article.
box 138, folder 1
True Story Magazine,
1934
box 148, folder 1
Home Movies,
1940 February
box 138, folder 2
New Yorker,
1954 February 29
box 138, folder 3
4 Dance Magazine, 38, no. 4,
1964
Scope and Content Note
Two copies.
box 148, folder 2
Life, 58, no. 16,
1965 April 23
box 148, folder 3
Life, 58, no. 17,
1965 April 30
box 148, folder 4
New York Herald Tribune,
1965 May 17
box 138, folder 4
Dance and Dancers, 16, no. 11,
1965 November
box 138, folder 5
Dance Magazine, 39, no. 12,
1965 December
box 148, folder 5
Esquire, 65, no. 3,
1966 March
box 148, folder 6
The New York Times Magazine,
1966 September
box 148, folder 7
The New York Times Magazine,
1966 October
Impulse; Annual of Contemporary
Dance
,
1966-1967
box 138, folder 8
Ballet Review, 1, no. 6,
1967
Scope and Content Note
Contains articles about the Judson Dance Theater.
box 138, folder 9
Dance Magazine, 42, no. 3,
1968 March
box 138, folder 10-11
Dance Magazine, 42, no. 6,
1968 June
Scope and Content Note
Photograph of Rainer, performing, on cover. Three issues.
box 148, folder 8
The New York Times Magazine,
1968 July 28
box 138, folder 12
Art News, 67, no. 4,
1968
box 138, folder 13
Dance Magazine, 42, no. 10,
1968 October
box 139, folder 1
Dance Magazine, 44, no. 9,
1970 September
box 139, folder 2
Dance Magazine, 47, no. 10,
1973 October
box 148, folder 9
Artforum, 12, no. 1,
1974 January
box 148, folder 10
Artforum, 12, no. 2,
1974 February
box 139, folder 4
Dance Magazine, 48, no. 4,
1974 April
box 139, folder 5
Women and Film, 1, nos. 5-6,
1974
box 139, folder 6
Artscanada, nos. 196/197,
1975 March
Scope and Content Note
Contains a review of Rainer's book
Work 1961-1973
(1974).
box 139, folder 7
Dance Scope, 9, no. 2,
1975
Scope and Content Note
Contains a review of Rainer's book
Work 1961-1973
(1974).
box 139, folder 8
Women and Film, 2, no. 7,
1975
box 139, folder 9
New Yorker,
1975 August 11
box 139, folder 11
Studio International,
1975 November-December
box 139, folder 13
Sight and Sound, no. 1,
1976-1977
box 139, folder 14
Time Out, 364,
1977 March 18
box 140, folder 1
Flash Art, 72/73,
1977 March-April
box 140, folder 2
Art in America,
1977 May-June
box 140, folder 3
Ms., 6, no. 6,
1977 December
box 140, folder 6
American Film, 3, no. 10,
1978 September
box 140, folder 10
Sight and Sound, 49, no. 3,
Summer 1980
box 140, folder 11
Performance,
1980 October
box 140, folder 12
Live Performance Art, 4,
1980
Scope and Content Note
Two copies.
box 140, folder 13
Millennium Film Journal, nos. 7, 8,
9,
1980-1981
box 141, folder 1
Centervideo,
1981 February
box 141, folder 2
Artscanada, no. 240, 241,
1981 March-April
Scope and Content Note
Two copies.
box 141, folder 3
Film Comment,
1981 May-June
box 148, folder 12
Life, 4, no. 11,
1981 November
box 141, folder 4
Art in America,
1981 December
box 141, folder 5
Women Artists News, 7, no. 3,
1981
box 141, folder 6
Ruby Rich, Yvonne Rainer, Walker Art Center,
1981
box 141, folder 7
Contact Quarterly, 7, nos. 3, 4,
1982
Scope and Content Note
Typescript for "More screaming and kicking from the narrative front/backwater,"
1982, paper delivered at Milwaukee conference, Nov 1982, and other notes are in
Series III.C, Box 27, folder 27.
box 141, folder 8
Dance Magazine, 56, no. 9,
1982
Scope and Content Note
Contains article about the Judson Dance Theater.
box 141, folder 9
Vanity Fair, 46, no. 8,
1982 October
box 141, folder 10
Contact Quarterly, 7, no. 2,
1982
box 141, folder 12
Art in America,
1983 December
box 141, folder 14
American Film, 9, no. 7,
1985 May
box 141, folder 15
Frauen und Film, 37,
1984 October
Scope and Content Note
Two copies.
box 142, folder 1
Libération,
1984 December
box 142, folder 2
Theatre Journal, 37, no. 1,
1985 March
Scope and Content Note
Typescript of article.
box 142, folder 3
American Film, 10, no. 8,
1985 June
box 142, folder 4
Festival of Festivals Press
Book
,
1985 September
box 142, folder 5
Ms., 14, no. 6,
1985 December
box 142, folder 6
Mary C. Gentile, "How to have your narrative and know it, too: Yvonne
Rainer's Film About a Woman Who ...",
1985
Scope and Content Note
In
Film feminism Theory and Practice, Greenwood
Press, London, 1985. Photocopy of book chapter.
box 142, folder 7
Afterimage, 13, no. 8,
1986 March 8
box 142, folder 9
Art in America,
1986 April
box 142, folder 10
Cinema Studies, 2, no. 3,
1986
box 142, folder 11
Afterimage, 14, no. 6,
1987 January
box 142, folder 12
Art & Text, 23, no. 4,
1987 March-May
box 142, folder 15
Motion Picture, 1, no. 3,
1987
box 143, folder 1
Peggy Phelan, "Feminist theory, poststructuralism, and performance,
"
1988
Scope and Content Note
Offprint of article in
Drama Review, 32 (Spring
1988).
box 143, folder 2
Independent Film and Video
Monthly
,
1989 June
box 143, folder 5
Contact Quarterly, 14, no. 4,
1989
Scope and Content Note
Contains article about the Judson Dance Theater.
box 143, folder 6
Independent Film and Video
Monthly
,
1990 May
box 143, folder 7
Independent Film and Video
Monthly
,
1990 July
box 143, folder 8
Motion Picture, 3, no. 3, 4,
1990
Scope and Content Note
Note in journal: This issue is the catalog of the "Sexism, colonialism,
misrepresentation" film series and conference held at the Collective for Living
cinema and DIA Art Foundation from April 25, 1988 to May 8, 1988. Curated by Rainer
and Bérénice Reynaud. See Conferences files for more on this.
box 143, folder 9
Release Print, 13, no. 9,
1990 November
box 143, folder 11
Six internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival
München
,
1991 April
box 143, folder 12
Agenda Contemporary Art
Magazine
,
1991 May 17
box 143, folder 15
Film Quarterly, 45, no. 1,
1991
box 143, folder 16
Afterimage, 19, no. 3,
1991 October
box 144, folder 2
Art Papers,
1991 November-December
box 144, folder 3
Sundance Film Festival,
1991
box 144, folder 4
Felix, 1, no. 2,
1992
Scope and Content Note
Rainer, letter to the editors.
box 144, folder 5
Performing Arts Journal, 16, no.
1,
1994 January
box 144, folder 6
Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 15, no.
2,
1994
box 144, folder 7
Wexner Center prize recommendation: Yvonne Rainer,
1995
box 144, folder 8
Meaning in Motion: New Cultural Studies of
Dance,
Duke University Press,
1995
Scope and Content Note
Photocopy and typescript of book chapter by Mark Franko with letter to Rainer.
box 144, folder 10
Independent Film and Video Monthly, 19, no.
6,
1996 July
box 144, folder 11
Frieze, no. 30,
1996 September-October
Scope and Content Note
Photocopy of article.
box 144, folder 12
Filmmaker, the magazine of independent film,
5, no. 1,
1996
box 144, folder 13
Art in America,
1997 July
Scope and Content Note
Two copies.
box 145, folder 2-3
Issues in Cultural Theory, Minimal
Politics
,
1997
box 145, folder 4
Performance Journal, no. 16,
1998
box 145, folder 5
Film Quarterly, 52, no. 1,
1998
box 145, folder 7
Film and Video Monthly, 21, no.
10,
1998 December
box 145, folder 8
Performance Journal, no. 17,
1998-1999
box 145, folder 9
Nouvelles de danse, la
composition
,
1998
box 145, folder 10
Clarinda Mac Low, "Thinking movement: some thoughts of recreating Trio
A,"
1999
Scope and Content Note
In
Dance Views, May 23, 1999; photocopy of article
from online journal.
box 145, folder 12
Gabrielle Finnane, review of
Yvonne Rainer, A woman
who...essays, interviews, scripts
,
1999
Scope and Content Note
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
box 145, folder 13
Anna C. Chave, "Minimalism and biography,"
Art
Bulletin
82,
2000 March
Scope and Content Note
Photocopy of article.
box 145, folder 14
Texte zur Kunst, no. 39,
2000 September
box 145, folder 15
Millennium Film Journal, nos. 35/3,
6
2000
box 146, folder 1
Dance Magazine, 74, no. 11,
2000 November
Scope and Content Note
Two copies.
box 146, folder 2
Movement Research Performance
Journal
,
2000
box 146, folder 3
Journal of Philosophical Research, vol.
25,
2000
box 146, folder 4
"Yvonne Rainer's Moment, 'Performance in question',"
2001
Scope and Content Note
Typescript of an unattributed talk given at the College Art Association
meeting.
box 146, folder 5
Time Out New York,
2001 July-August
box 146, folder 6
Contact Quarterly, 26, no. 2,
2001 September
box 146, folder 7
Dance Magazine, 75, no. 9,
2001 September
box 146, folder 8
PAJ, No. 69,
2001 September
box 146, folder 9
Senses of Cinema, no. 18,
2002 January-February
Scope and Content Note
Printout of article.
box 146, folder 10
Sight and Sound, the Monthly Film Magazine,
12, no. 9,
2002 September
box 146, folder 11
Ann Daly, "Behind the camera: whose gaze is it?",
2002 September 28
Scope and Content Note
Typescript of paper given at Dance for the Camera Festival and Symposium.
box 146, folder 12
Lunes, réalités, parcours, représentation de
femmes
,
2002 October 21
box 146, folder 13
Drama Review,
2002
Scope and Content Note
Chris Mills, review of Yvonne Rainer, A woman who...essays, interviews, scripts,
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
box 146, folder 14
Chronicle Review,
2002 November
box 146, folder 15
Zeitgeist Films catalogue,
2002
box 146, folder 15
Médium: danse, no. 23 ,
2002
box 146, folder 16
Milton Avery graduate school of the
arts
,
2003
box 146, folder 17
D.A.P. books on art and culture,
2003-2004
box 146, folder 18
Issues in Cultural Theory, no. 5: Postmodernism: a
Virtual Discussion
,
2003
box 147, folder 1
Les artistes contemporains et la philosophie
no. 44,
2003
box 147, folder 2
Movement Research Performance Journal no.
27/28,
2004
box 147, folder 4
Artists' Favorites,
2004 July-September
box 147, folder 5
Art Journal, 63, no. 3,
2004
Scope and Content Note
On the cover are four stills from Rainer's Hand Movie, 1966. Two copies of
journal.
box 147, folder 6
Women's Caucus for Art, Honor Awards for Outstanding Achievement in the
Visual Arts,
2004
box 147, folder 7
Zeitgeist Films, 15th anniversary
catalogue,
2004
box 147, folder 8
Ramsay Burt, "Genealogy and dance history, Foucault, Rainer, Bausch, and de
Keersmacker,"
2004
Scope and Content Note
In Of the Presence of the Body, Wesleyan University
Press, 2004. Photocopy of book chapter.
box 147, folder 9
Dance Magazine, 80, no. 4,
2006
Scope and Content Note
Three copies.
box 147, folder 10
Brooklyn Rail, Critical Perspectives on Arts,
Politics and Culture
,
2006 May
artictoc, vols. 0-5,
2006-2011
box 210, folder 4
Flash Art, 15, no. 257,
2007
box 210, folder 5
Paper Monument, no. 1,
2007
box 211, folder 1
Contact Quarterly, 33, no. 2,
2008
box 211, folder 2
Art Journal, 68, no. 2,
2009
box 211, folder 3
Dance Research Journal, 41/1 &
41/2,
2009
box 211, folder 5
The New Yorker,
2010 May 24
box 212, folder 1
Dance Research Journal, 41/2,
2012
box 212, folder 4-6
Photocopies of articles,
2003-2008
box 147, folder 11
Writings about works by Rainer, Simone Forti, and Joan Jonas, in
German,
undated
box 147, folder 12
Excerpts from three books on dance and performance,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Typescript with excerpts on choreography by Lucinda Childs, Trisha Brown and Steve
Paxton, from three books by [Nick] Kaye; [Michael] Huxley and [Noel] Witts, [The
Twentieth-Century Performance Reader]?; and [Sally] Banes, Terpsichore in
Sneakers.
box 147, folder 13
Maureen Turim, "Cutting: A Look at the Violence of Female Desire in
Avant-garde Films,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
Typescript. Note on first page: "to appear in anthology on women's' avant-garde
films."
Interviews,
1975-2005
Scope and Content Note
See also Series VIII: Box 100, C18; Box 106; Box 111, V58; Box 121, V112; and Box
122, V114.
box 149, folder 1
Interviews with Yvonne Rainer,
The Feminist Art
Journal
,
1975
Scope and Content Note
Two issues of the journal. Letter to The Feminist Art Journal, from Rainer, is in
Series II; letter to Lucy Lippard, from Rainer, is in Series II.
box 149, folder 2
Questions submitted to Rainer about
Kristina Talking
Pictures
,
circa 1978
box 149, folder 3
Noel, Carrol, "Interview with a woman who...,"
circa 1980
Scope and Content Note
In
Millennium Film Journal; photocopy of
article.
box 149, folder 4
Issue of
Profile dedicated to an interview
of Rainer by Lyn Blumenthal,
1984
Scope and Content Note
Two issues of the journal, vol. 4, no. 5 (Fall 1984).
box 149, folder 5
Experimental Film Coalition Newsletter, 2,
no. 4,
1985 December
Scope and Content Note
Issue of the journal.
box 149, folder 6
Dan Walworth, "An Interview with Yvonne Rainer,"
1987
Scope and Content Note
In
Psych Critique, 2, no. 4 (April-June 1987).
box 149, folder 7
Mitchell Rosenbaum, "Interview with Yvonne Rainer,"
Persistence of Vision, no. 6,
1988
Scope and Content Note
Two photocopies of the article.
box 149, folder 8
David Laderman, "Interview: Yvonne Rainer,"
1989
Scope and Content Note
In
Art Papers, 13, no. 3 (May/June 1989).
box 149, folder 9
Kate Briggs and Fiona MacDonald, "An Interview with Yvonne
Rainer,"
1990
Scope and Content Note
In
Photofile, no. 30 (Winter, 1990); photocopy of
article.
box 149, folder 10
Gabrielle Finnane, "'Discussing
Privilege:
An Interview with Yvonne Rainer,"
1990
Scope and Content Note
In
Continuum: the Australian Journal of Media and
Culture,
vol. 5, no. 2 (1990). Photocopy of article, letter from Finnane
to Rainer, and accompanying draft of interview.
box 149, folder 11
Kurt Easterwood, Susanne Fairfax and Laura Poitiers, "Yvonne Rainer:
Declaring the Stakes,"
1990
Scope and Content Note
Published by San Francisco Cinematheque. One photocopy and three issues of the
publication.
box 149, folder 12
Rob Mitchell, "Representing Women, An Interview with Yvonne Rainer,"
Screenline,
1990-1991
Scope and Content Note
One photocopy of the article.
box 149, folder 13
Rachel Fensham and Jude Walton, "'Naming Myself' An Interview with Yvonne
Rainer,"
1991
Scope and Content Note
In
Writings on Dance, Privilege and Presence, 7
(Winter 1991).
box 149, folder 14
Interview by Nicholas Zurbrugg, Centre for Contemporary Arts, De Montfort
University, Leicester,
1992
Scope and Content Note
Typescript of the interview.
box 149, folder 15
Interview by Ann Daly,
1997
Scope and Content Note
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Typescript transcription and letter
to Rainer.
box 149, folder 16
Carrie Lambert, "Contents Under Pressure: A Conversation with Yvonne
Rainer,"
1999
Scope and Content Note
In
Documents, 16 (Fall 1999).
box 149, folder 17
Tim Griffin, "Yvonne Rainer,"
2002
Scope and Content Note
In
Index Magazine, April/May 2002.
box 149, folder 18
Andrea Geyer, "Yvonne Rainer, Filmmaker and Choreographer,"
2005
Scope and Content Note
In
Artist and Influence, 24 (2005).
box 150, folder 1
Catherine Wood, "Minimal Contact,"
2000
Scope and Content Note
In
Untitled, Contemporary Art, no. 21, (Spring
2000).
Student writings about Rainer,
1979-2000, undated
box 151, folder 1
Joan Copjec, "Re: De-Presentation of: Film About a Woman Who
...,"
1979
Scope and Content Note
Thesis, Slade School of Fine Arts.
box 151, folder 2
Martin H. Winn, "Talking Cures,"
1980
Scope and Content Note
Thesis, Hunter College, The City University of New York.
box 151, folder 3
David Laderman, Domination, Sexuality and Dialectics in Cinema,
1989 Jan
Scope and Content Note
Essay submitted to the IALP Conferende, "Dialetics and Narrative," Seminar on
Gender/Theory issues.
box 151, folder 4
"Saga of Yvonne Rainer,"
1989
Scope and Content Note
Paper by unidentified student of E. K. Armatage; letter to Rainer from
Armatage.
box 151, folder 5
Gabrielle Starr, "Performing Feminisms: Yvonne Rainer's
The Man Who Envied Women, "
1993
Scope and Content Note
Thesis, Emory University; letter to Rainer.
box 151, folder 6
Gretchen Hogue, "Now at Last She Can Use Her Head and Her Eyes"; the
feminist narrative films of Yvonne Rainer,
2000
Scope and Content Note
Senior Project, Bard College; letter to Rainer.
box 151, folder 7
Unidentified bibliography,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Annotated typescript.