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Yvonne Rainer

Beyond the resonance of the title, however, the 21st century dance footage (itself containing 40-year-old instances of my 20th century choreography) can be read multifariously — and paradoxically — as both the beneficiary of a cultural and economic elite and as an extension of an avant-garde tradition that revels in attacking that elite and its illusions of order and permanency. Or, finally, each dance image can be taken simply as a graphic or mimetic correlation with its simultaneous text. Some may say the avant-garde has long been over. Be that as it may, the idea of it continues to inspire and motivate many of us with its inducement — in the words of playwright/director Richard Foreman — to resist the present.’

Yvonne Rainer (from Dance Camera West advertisement), talking about her work After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: Hybrid (2002, 31 min, video)

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