CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/20/2020

A new facsimile edition of 'Yvonne Rainer: Work 1961–73'

Featured spread is from Yvonne Rainer: Work 1961–73, Primary Information's new facsimile edition of the pioneering choreographer's classic 1974 illustrated catalogue of her performance works up to that point. Showing Rainer's notes on Connecticut Composite, "an evening involving 80 students, taking place in five separate performing areas in one building," the audience for this work could move from one performance to another at their own discretion, according to the schedule pictured at right. On the left are Rainer's designs representing "consecutive static configurations by a group of 20 people. The arrows indicate the directions in which they are to face. An unbroken line means shoulder-to-shoulder alignment. A series of parallel short lines indicates column formation." Rainer's instructions call for performers to regroup 20 times.