Yvonne Rainer: Words, Dances, Films

Yvonne Rainer: Words, Dances, Films is the exhibition promoted by MAMbo - curated by Caterina Molteni - that explores the relationships between the choreographic, filmic and theoretical production of Yvonne Rainer (San Francisco, 1934) through a historical reconstruction of her transition from dance to cinema. 

Internationally known for revolutionising the world of dance by promoting a minimalist approach in the 1960s that found inspiration in the natural kinetic movement of the body and everyday gestures, Rainer began her career as a filmmaker in 1972, the year her first film Lives of Performers was released.

Yvonne Rainer: Words, Dances, Films presents in the museum's Chimney Hall films made by the author between 1972 and 1996, recently restored by MoMA - Modern Art Museum in New York. At the same time, it delves into the video experimentation preceding the feature films and the author's theoretical and poetic writing. An archive area chronologically reconstructs Rainer's revolution in the New York dance world with photographs, notebooks, posters and documents from the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.