{"id":3845,"date":"2003-07-30T19:00:44","date_gmt":"2003-07-30T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/?p=3845"},"modified":"2018-01-25T15:00:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T15:00:21","slug":"yvonne-rainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/2003\/07\/30\/yvonne-rainer\/","title":{"rendered":"An Evening with Yvonne Rainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n<p><strong>AN EVENING WITH YVONNE RAINER<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Wednesday 30 July 2003, at 7pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>London Whitechapel Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yvonne Rainer will introduce a screening of her first feature film<em> Lives of Performers<\/em>, followed by a discussion between Yvonne Rainer, Berlin-based writer \/ curator Madeleine Bernstorff and the audience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yvonne Rainer, Lives of Performers, USA, 1972, 16mm, b\/w, sound, 90 min<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Explicating the emotional love triangle between three dancers who, as characters, play themselves, <em>Lives of Performers<\/em> is at once a melodrama and a sustained documentation of roles played within roles. Simultaneously stylised and asymmetrical, posed and improvised, it beats an episodic path through public and private observation (the dancers in rehearsal, backstage and onstage), love and pain, possibility and impasse, culminating in a series of tableaux that tell the Lulu story. Babette Mangolt\u2019s camerawork echoes Rainer&#8217;s choreography, describing emotional intensity through durational experience, challenging narrative conventions and reconstructing expectation as radical experience.<\/p>\n<p>Presented by LUX, Mary Kelly Project and Whitechapel, in association with the London International Summer School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EVENING WITH YVONNE RAINER Wednesday 30 July 2003, at 7pm London Whitechapel Gallery Yvonne Rainer will introduce a screening of her first feature film Lives of Performers, followed by a discussion between Yvonne Rainer, Berlin-based writer \/ curator Madeleine Bernstorff and the audience. Yvonne Rainer, Lives of Performers, USA, 1972, 16mm, b\/w, sound, 90 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}