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1974WORK 196173Judson Dance Theater
Pat Catterson
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Originally published in 1974 by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Yvonne RainersWork 1961-73documents the artists landmark early works at the intersection of dance, performance, and art. The publication provides multifaceted insight into some of the artists most celebrated choreographic works, includingTerrain(1962),Trio A(1966),Continuous Project-Altered Daily(1970),War(1970),Street Action(1970), andThis is the story of a woman who (1973),among many others.
Assembled ostensibly as a survey,Work 1961-73features a multitude of documentary forms, including scripts, excerpts from the artists notebooks, press reviews, correspondence, photographic documentation, literary excerpts, contextualizing texts by the artist, diagrams, film stills, floor plans, scores, and more. As such, the publication resembles an artist book that generously gives the reader access to Rainers modes of working, as well as the social and political context around which the work was made. The publication is also a book of writing, with the artists frank, witty, and sometimes humorous prose intimately leading the reader through each work.
As the artist states in the books introduction:
I have a longstanding infatuation with language, a not-easily assailed conviction that it, above all else, offers a key to clarity. Not that it can replace experience, but rather holds a mirror to our experience, give us distance when we need it. So here I am, in a sense, trying to replace my performances with a book, greedily pushing language to clarify what already was clear in other terms. But, alas, gone. This has seemed one good reason to compile a book out of the remains of my performances, letting the language fall where it may. Let it be said simply She usually makes performances and has also made a book.
Work 1961-73is an indispensable publication for anyone interested in the artist and the radical developments in dance and performance in the 1960s.
