كتاب
Feelings are facts: a life
| العنوان: | Feelings are facts: a life |
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| المؤلفون: | Rainer, Yvonne, 1934- |
| بيانات النشر: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006. |
| سنة النشر: | 2006 |
| وصف مادي: | xvi, 473 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| سلاسل: | The MIT Press writing art series The MIT Press writing art series. MIT Press writing art series. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Dancers -- United States -- Biography., Choreographers -- United States -- Biography., Independent filmmakers -- United States -- Biography., Biography. |
| Subject Person: | Rainer, Yvonne, 1934- |
| الوصف: | In this memoir, dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer traces her personal and artistic coming of age. Feelings Are Facts (the title comes from a dictum by Rainer's one-time psychotherapist) uses diary entries, letters, program notes, excerpts from film scripts, snapshots, and film frame enlargements to present a vivid portrait of an extraordinary artist and woman in postwar America. Rainer tells of a California childhood in which she was farmed out by her parents to foster families and orphanages, of sexual and intellectual initiations in San Francisco and Berkeley, and of artistic discoveries and accomplishments in the New York City dance world. Rainer studied with Martha Graham (and heard Graham declare, "when you accept yourself as a woman, you will have turn-out"--That is, achieve proper ballet position) and Merce Cunningham in the late 1950s and early 1960s, cofounded the Judson Dance Theater in 1962 (dancing with Trisha Brown, Steve Paxton, David Gordon, and Lucinda Childs), hobnobbed with New York artists including Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Morris (her lover and partner for several years), and Yoko Ono, and became involved with feminist and anti-war causes in the 1970s and 1980s. Rainer writes about how she constructed her dances--including The Mind Is a Muscle and its famous section, Trio A, as well as the recent After Many a Summer Dies the Swan--and about turning from dance to film and back to dance. And she writes about meeting her longtime partner Martha Gever and discovering the pleasures of domestic life. The mosaic-like construction of Feelings Are Facts recalls the composition-by-juxtaposition of Rainer's work in film and dance, displaying prismatic variations from what she calls her "reckless past" for our amazement and appreciation. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | 1. Burgeoning Sexuality -- 2. A Bay Area Family -- 3. School Years and Incidentals -- 4. Burgeoning Sexuality 2 -- 5. Past/Forward Interlude: More Bay Area Cultural Memories -- 6. Chicago -- 7. SF Maturation -- 8. New York in the Late 1950s -- 9. Dance, Girl, Dance -- 10. The Real Deal -- 11. The Plot Thickens -- 12. Implosions -- 13. Divertissement -- 14. Prelude to Melodrama -- 15. Protest, Performance, Puppets -- 16. India and After (Denouement) -- 17. Feelings Are Facts -- 18. Lives of Performers. |
| Original Identifier: | ocm61353153 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-262-18251-5 0-262-18251-3 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.010007881.8 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780262182515 0262182513 |
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