Yvonne Rainer: Feelings Are Facts: A Life FREE March 15, 2007

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Yvonne Rainer is also reading at Otis on February 26, 2007.



Yvonne Rainer
Feelings Are Facts: A Life
In conversation with Irene Borger, dance ethnologist, writer and director, Alpert Award in the Arts

Presented on the occasion of the exhibition "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, 1965-1980" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The personal and artistic coming of age of dancer, choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer, one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater in 1962: a vivid portrait of an extraordinary artist and woman in postwar America.

Dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer was one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater in 1962. Since 1972, she has completed seven feature-length films, one of which, Privilege (1990), won the Filmmakers Trophy at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival and the Geyer Werke Prize at the 1991 International Documentary Film Festival in Munich. Her work was recently seen in the exhibition Yvonne Rainer: Radical Juxtapositions: 1961-2002.

Writer and teacher Irene Borger was artist-in-residence at AIDS Project Los Angeles for ten years and now serves as a consultant to wellness and psychoanalytic institutes throughout the country. The editor of two books, From a Burning House and The Force of Curiosity, her writing has appeared in Architectural Digest, BOMB, O, and the Wall Street Journal. A trained dance ethnologist, she was a member of the dance history faculty at UC Riverside from 1984-1994, leaving to become director of the Alpert Award in the Arts. She is working on a book on listening

For information on the exhibition
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, 1965-1980
at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, go to:
www.moca.org

Official Website: http://www.lfla.org/aloud/php/a.calendar.bioText2.php?month=03&year=2007&day=15