At MAMbo the first retrospective in Italy dedicated to dancer, director and poet Yvonne Rainer

From June 30 to Sept. 10, 2023, MAMbo - Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna del Settore Musei Civici Bologna will host the first retrospective ever dedicated in Italy to dancer, choreographer, director, theorist and poet Yvonne Rainer (San Francisco, 1934).

Entitled Yvonne Rainer: Words, Dances, Films, the exhibition curated by Caterina Molteni aims to explore the relationships between the author’s choreographic, filmic and theoretical production starting from the historical reconstruction of her transition from dance to cinema. Internationally famous for revolutionizing the world of dance by promoting a minimalist approach in the 1960s that found inspiration in the natural kinetic movement of the body and everyday gestures, Yvonne Rainer began her career as a filmmaker from 1972, the year her first film Lives of Performers was released.

The exhibition will consist of videos, films made between 1972 and 1996, recently restored by MoMA - Modern Art Museum in New York with the support of The Celeste Bartos Fund for Film Preservation, writings that delve into theoretical production, and a section devoted to archival documents that chronologically reconstruct Rainer’s revolution in the New York dance world with documents from the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.

If in performance the body takes on a political role because it is presented in its materiality beyond any narrative fiction, in the films it is thehuman interiority that finds space in its psychological complexity, becoming the fertile ground for reflecting on collective political issues.

Yvonne Rainer: Words, Dances, Films is part of the Bologna Estate 2023 program of activities, promoted and coordinated by the Municipality of Bologna and the Metropolitan City of Bologna - Bologna-Modena Tourist Territory.

For info: www.mambo-bologna.org

Hours: Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 2 to 7 p.m.; Thursdays from 2 to 8 p.m.; Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays and holidays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed on non-holiday Mondays.
Tickets: Full 6 euros, reduced 4 euros. Free for Culture Card holders. The entrance ticket guarantees a second access starting the day after the first visit.

Image: Lives of Performers, 1972, still from video. Courtesy of Zeitgeist Film, Kino Lorber.

At MAMbo the first retrospective in Italy dedicated to dancer, director and poet Yvonne Rainer

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