A Manifesto Reconsidered

A Manifesto Reconsidered by Yvonne Rainer, Serpentine Gallery, London 2008

NO MANIFESTO
Yvonne Rainer, 1965 A MANIFESTO RECONSIDERED
No to spectacle
No to virtuosity
No to transformations and magic and make-believe
No to the glamour and transcendence of the star image
No to the heroic
No to the anti-heroic.
No to trash imagery
No to involvement of performer or spectator.
No to style
No to camp
No to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the performer
No to eccentricity
No to moving or being moved

Yvonne Rainer, 2008 AFTER NO MANIFESTO
Avoid if at all possible
Acceptable in limited quantity
Magic is out; the other two are sometimes tolerable
Acceptable only as quotation
Dancers are ipso facto heroic
Don’t agree with that one
Don’t understand that one
Spectators: stay in your seats
Style is unavoidable
A little goes a long way
Unavoidable
If you mean „unpredictable“,that’s the name of the game
Unavoidable

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