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Born November 24, 1934 · San Francisco, California, USA
Yvonne Rainer was born in San Francisco in 1934. She trained as a modern dancer in New York and began to choreograph her own work in 1960. She was one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater in 1962, a movement that proved to be a vital force in modern dance in the following decades. Between 1962 and 1975 Rainer presented her choreography throughout the U.S. and Europe. In 2000 and 2001 Rainer returned to dance via commissions from the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation to choreograph work for the White Oak Dance Project, including a 35-minute piece called After Many a Summer Dies the Swan. Since 1972, Rainer has completed seven feature-length films, beginning with Lives of Performers (1972) and more recently The Man Who Envied Women (1985), Privilege (1990), and MURDER and murder (1996). Rainer has received numerous awards and fellowships for her work, including two Guggenheim Fellowships (1969, 1988), three Rockefeller Fellowships (1988, 1990, 1996), a MacArthur Fellowship (1990-95), and a Wexner Prize (1995), as well as four Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degrees. Yvonne Rainer: Work 1961-73 was published by Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and New York University Press in 1974; The Films of Yvonne Rainer, a collection of her film scripts, was published by Indiana University Press in 1989; and A Woman Who...: Essays, Interviews, Scripts was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1999. Rainer's latest choreographic work, based on Balanchine's AGON, was presented at Dance Theater Workshop, April 2006, subsequently traveling to the Getty Museum. A memoir, Feelings are Facts: A Life, was published by MIT Press in 2006.

After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: Hybrid
2002

MURDER and murder
1996

Privilege
1990

The Man Who Envied Women
1985

Journeys from Berlin/1971
1980

Trio A
1978

Kristina Talking Pictures
1976

Film About a Woman Who…
1974

Lives of Performers
1972

Line
1969

Rhode Island Red
1968

Trio Film
1968
Volleyball (Foot Film)
1967
Hand Film
1966

Carriage Discreteness
Just Back from Los Angeles: A Portrait of Yvonne Rainer
2017

Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer
2015

What Is Cinema?
2013

Salomania
2009

Rainer Variations
2002

Privilege
1990

Home Movies 1971-81
1985
Cinématon X
1980

Journeys from Berlin/1971
1980

Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
1979

Cinématon
1978

Madame X – An Absolute Ruler
1978

Kristina Talking Pictures
1976

What Maisie Knew
1975

Film About a Woman Who…
1974

Lives of Performers
1972
Trio A with Flags
1970
Hand Film
1966