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

Lambert-Beatty, Carrie. Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s (2011)