Son[i]a #259
Yvonne Rainer
Exploring expressive vocabularies that have the power to dismantle the boundaries of artistic disciplines, Yvonne Rainer has pieced together an extraordinarily extensive career straddling the worlds of choreography, writing, and filmmaking. Aside from her participation in milestones of the American avant-garde of the sixties – from Minimalism to the Judson Dance Theatre –, her involvement in effervescent political moments like the protests against the Vietnam war and the feminist movements, and her autobiographical film investigations attest to her branching, experimental energy, which is still going strong today. In works such as her recent choreography “The Concept of Dust, or How do you look when there’s nothing left to move?”, she combines a series of canonical texts with a cast of older dancers who can, Rainer says, “challenge the audience’s expectations and do things that no young dancer can do.”
SON[I]A talks to Yvonne Rainer about the passing of time, the transferability of dance, training as legacy and the body’s filmic decay. About tenacity, physicality, and influences. And about the turns, leaps, and tumbles of a multifaceted career spanning more than half a century.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with choreographer and performer Alma Söderberg that we were unable to include the first time around. Alma discusses her influences, teachers and schools and two collective projects of different sorts: Manyone and John The Houseband.
Boris Charmatz
Dance interpreter, choreographer, thinker, writer, teacher and curator Boris Charmatz reflects on how to address power structures within the artistic field. He also talks about polisemy, collectivity, communities and anti-communities, radical pedagogy, dissent, the Musée de la danse, the complex and inexhaustible relationship between dance and history, working inside gestures, and the beauty of older people skateboarding.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Yvonne Rainer that we were unable to include the first time around.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with André Lepecki that we were unable to include the first time around.
André Lepecki
André Lepecki talks about the chronopolitics of disappearance, dance, Louis XIV, the acquisition of choreography, testimonial power, object-oriented ontologies, choreopolicing, the writing of movement, and selfies.
Xavier Le Roy
Interview with the dancer and choreographer Xavier Le Roy about his choreographies and working processes.