YVONNE RAINER

November 14 at 7PM
November 15 at 7PM
New Theater (1156 Chapel Street)

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RoS INDEXICAL

RoS Indexical is Yvonne Rainer’s radical re-vision of The Rite of Spring, the brilliant and controversial collaboration between choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky and composer Igor Stravinsky which shocked Paris audiences in 1913 with its “primitive” movement vocabulary and dissonant musical score. In RoS Indexical, “Rainer not only destabilizes the notion of The Rite of Spring as an iconic achievement in dance history, she allows us to see that a work may live on in greatly altered form” (Marcia B. Siegel, The Hudson Review).

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SPIRALING DOWN
World Premiere

Commissioned by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Research Institute, and World Performance Project at Yale, Spiraling Down draws its inspiration from a variety of sources—including newspaper photos, soccer moves, old movies, classic modern dance, ballet, Steve Martin, Sarah Bernhardt, and Rainer’s own disinterred dances from the 1960s—all of which contribute to the melancholic and contradictory subtext of Rainer’s new dance.

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American choreographer, filmmaker, and writer Yvonne Rainer is credited as a pioneer of postmodern dance.  Her work, which draws from a variety of disciplines and media, has influenced generations of performance and visual artists.

The running time for RoS Indexical and Spiraling Down, which are performed consecutively, is approximately 90 minutes including a transition.

TICKETS PRICES

Adult	Senior	Student
$15	$15	$10

Festival of International Dance at Yale ticket prices made possible by The Mellon Foundation.

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RELATED PROGRAMS

Free and Open to the Public

MOVEMENT PERFORMANCE AND DANCE THEATRE, OR, (WHERE) SHOULD THE COMMAS GO?
November 10, 2008 at 5:30 PM
Loria Center, 190 York Street, Room 351

Peggy Phelan considers the points of contact between theatre, performance, dance, and movement in some contemporary dance. Concentrating on the legacy of Judson Dance Theatre on the one hand, and Pina Bausch on the other, the talk considers the relative benefits and the possible futility of maintaining distinctions between dance, performance, theatre, and movement when thinking about contemporary work.

Co-Sponsored by the Department of the History of Art at Yale.

Dance Workshop with Yvonne Rainer
Friday, November 14, 10AM-12PM
3rd Floor Dance Studio, Broadway Loft Studios, 294 Elm Street

An interactive studio session with choreographer Yvonne Rainer. Open to the first 30 people to arrive on the day of the workshop.

Co-Sponsored with Alliance for Dance at Yale

Panel: Movement in the Age of Globalization
Wednesday, November 12, 4PM
Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street

The three choreographers featured in the Festival of International Dance at Yale discuss a range of topics, including the diaspora of contemporary dance aesthetics and the relevance and power of movement in the age of globalization. Moderated by Thomas F. DeFrantz.

Co-Sponsored with Yale University Art Gallery and African American Studies

 

Panel: Yvonne Rainer in the 21st Century
Saturday, November 15 at 2PM
Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street

Yvonne Rainer's recent dance works are contextualized in light of her fifty-year career in dance and film. The panel includes Yvonne Rainer; dancers Patricia Hoffbauer, Sally Silvers, Keith Sabado, and Emily Coates; Carrie Lambert-Beatty, author of Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s; and moderator Joseph Roach.

Co-Sponsored with Yale University Art Gallery and History of Art

Talk Back

Q&A sessions with the artists will be held immediately following all performances.