Yvonne Rainer
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- November 24, 1934, San Francisco, California, USA
- Movies
- 33
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).
Upcoming Yvonne Rainer Movies
Carriage Discreteness
Release date TBA
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2017 | Just Back from Los Angeles: A Portrait of Yvonne Rainer | |
| 2015 | Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer | Self |
| 2013 | What Is Cinema? | Self |
| 2009 | Salomania | |
| 2002 | Rainer Variations | |
| 1990 | Privilege | Helen Caldicott |
| 1985 | Home Movies 1971-81 | |
| 1980 | Amy! | |
| 1980 | Cinématon X | N°95 |
| 1980 | Journeys from Berlin/1971 | |
| 1979 | Grand Opera: An Historical Romance | Kristina |
| 1978 | Cinématon | N°95 |
| 1978 | Madame X – An Absolute Ruler | Josephine de Collage |
| 1976 | Kristina Talking Pictures | Kristina |
| 1975 | What Maisie Knew | |
| 1974 | Film About a Woman Who… | |
| 1972 | Lives of Performers | |
| 1970 | Trio A with Flags | |
| 1966 | Hand Film |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2002 | After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: Hybrid | Director |
| 1996 | MURDER and murder | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 1990 | Privilege | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 1985 | The Man Who Envied Women | Director, Writer |
| 1980 | Journeys from Berlin/1971 | Director |
| 1978 | Trio A | Director |
| 1976 | Kristina Talking Pictures | Director |
| 1974 | Film About a Woman Who… | Director, Writer |
| 1972 | Lives of Performers | Director, Writer |
| 1969 | Line | Director |
| 1968 | Rhode Island Red | Director |
| 1968 | Trio Film | Director |
| 1967 | Volleyball (Foot Film) | Director |
| 1966 | Hand Film | Director |
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