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toronto, Canada: Sony Centre for the performing arts, 06/08/12–06/10/12
Brooklyn, nY: Brooklyn academy of music, 09/14/12–09/16/12
Berkeley, Ca: Zellerbach Hall, 10/26/12–10/28/12
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9782953823707
The Arts Arena
Yvonne Rainer: Space, Body, Language
kunsThAus breGenz/MuseuM LudwIG, CoLoGne
edited by Yilmaz dziewior, barbara engelbach. foreword by Yilmaz dziewior, barbara engelbach, kaspar
könig. Text by Gabriele brandstetter, douglas Crimp, Yilmaz dziewior, barbara engelbach, Carrie
Lambert-beatty, volker Pantenburg, Catherine wood.
Despite her years of work and influence as one of the world’s leading choreographers, dancers and filmmakers,
Yvonne rainer (born 1934) has until now not received the retrospective exhibition in europe that
her career deserves. Yvonne Rainer: Space, Body, Language is published for exhibitions at the Kunsthaus
Bregenz and the museum Ludwig, Cologne, and covers the full spectrum of her work, starting from her
foundational new York dance works such as The Mind Is a Muscle (1968), which created a new physical
language out of everyday gestures and humdrum objects such as mattresses, barbells and bubblewrap.
moving to her political and feminist films between 1976 and 1996, which took the filmic montage features
of her dance (and her incorporation of filmed actions of hands and volleyballs in her performances) to
their next level, Space, Body, Language brings us up to the present with rainer’s return to choreography
in 2000 and such recent compositions as Assisted Living: Good Sports 2 (2011) and Spiraling Down
(2008). this catalogue presents previously unseen documentation of stage works, notebooks, an astonishing
number of dance scores, scripts, movie and exhibition posters and a carefully compiled appendix,
as well as essays by Douglas Crimp, gabriele Brandstetter, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, volker pantenburg,
Catherine Wood and editors Yilmaz Dziewior and Barbara engelbach.
978-3-86335-137-3
pbk, 7.5 x 10 in. / 296 pgs / 35 color / 107 b&w.
U.S. $55.00 CDn $55.00
august/art/Dance
Robert Wilson & Philip Glass:
Einstein on the Beach
edITIons dILeCTA
foreword by robert wilson.
Debuting at the avignon Festival in France in 1976, robert Wilson and
philip glass’ Einstein on the Beach completely reinvented opera, synthesizing
the musical and theatrical avant-gardes of its time into one
spectacular five-hour extravaganza. Colossal in ambition, length and
scale, it appeared on paper to obey all the conventions of opera—four
acts, the singers on the stage, duets, choirs, an orchestra pit—but it drastically
departed from them in all other respects. Einstein on the Beach
had no plot, the singers did not play characters, the music was minimalist
and repetitive, and connections between the images and the music
were also fairly minimal. nonetheless, the opera successfully stormed
the gates of classical opera and seized the public imagination. Following
its 1976 premiere, the work was staged twice, in 1984 (at the Brooklyn
academy of music) and 1992 (at princeton)—and then, for the first
time in 20 years, it was performed in January 2012 at the University of
michigan, ann arbor, an event that paved the way for an official tour
that commences in march 2012, with stops in London, toronto, Brooklyn,
Berkeley, mexico City and amsterdam. this anniversary volume
gathers previously unpublished material that includes robert Wilson’s
original workbook, sketches and storyboards annotated with philip
glass’ notes, as well as photographs from the opera’s various world
tours. together these documents illustrate the genesis of a collaboration
that created a revolution in contemporary opera.
979-10-90490-04-8
Hbk, 11 x 8 in. / 160 pgs / 82 color / 14 b&w.
U.S. $60.00 CDn $60.00
July/performance/music
Poems
By Yvonne Rainer.
bAdLAnds unLIMITed
Introduction by Tim Griffin.
From her work in dance and choreography to her
films and writings, Yvonne rainer (born 1934) has
established herself as one of the america’s greatest
living artists. this first collection of her poems,
which were written from the late 1990s onwards and
have never before been published, affirms her ability
to endow words with corporeality, propulsion and
swift-moving narrative. Full of wit and candor,
rainer’s poems evoke the rhythm of an urban
landscape peopled with old friends and colleagues,
trying to make art or simply trying to make ends
meet. memories entangle with news headlines
and conversations overheard on the subway, making
the poems feel both intimate yet social. accompanying
the poems is a selection of black-and-white
images curated by rainer, varying from news
clippings to intimate photographs from rainer’s
personal archive. poet and critic tim griffin
contributes an introduction.
978-1-936440-10-8
pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 80 pgs / 7 b&w.
U.S. $12.00 CDn $12.00
July/poetry/Dance
Moving Together
Making and Theorizing Contemporary
Dance
By Rudi Laermans.
vALIz/AnTennAe serIes
published in valiz’s new Antennae series devoted to
new research in art, photography, architecture and design,
Moving Together examines contemporary dance
from both a practical and theoretical perspective. the
author, professor rudi Laermans, analyzes three tendencies:
pure dance, dance theater and (self-) reflexive
dance. He proposes a theoretical framework for
understanding how artistic cooperation figures into
the creation of dance. Boasting a great design by the
maverick Dutch studio metahaven, Moving Together
includes dialogues with some of the most influential
names in contemporary dance spanning several generations:
anne teresa De Keersmaeker, founder of the
cutting-edge dance company rosas; Jerome Bel, the
controversial and experimental French choreographer;
William Forsythe, known internationally for his
work with Ballett Frankfurt (1984–2004) and the
Forsythe Company (2005–present); as well as many
others dance innovators.
978-90-78088-52-3
pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 416 pgs / 6 b&w.
U.S. $28.95 CDn $28.95
December/Dance/nonfiction &
Criticism
You Killed Me First
The Cinema of Transgression
wALTher könIG, köLn
ArT hIGhLIGhTs
edited by susanne Pfeffer. Text by Carlo McCormick,
sylvère Lotringer, Jonas Mekas, susanne Pfeffer,
nick zedd, Jack sargeant.
emerging from new York’s Lower east Side in the
city’s early 1980s no Wave scene, the “Cinema of
transgression” aimed at outright shock, provocation
and confrontation. Young filmmakers such as richard
Kern, Lydia Lunch, Kembra pfahler, Casandra Stark
and nick Zedd produced nihilistic, nightmarish scenarios
of violence, angst and erotic excess that willfully
transcended all moral or aesthetic boundaries.
Sometimes shot with stolen camera equipment, and
flaunting their lo-fi credentials, the low-budget films
of the self-proclaimed “Cinema of transgression” presented
analyses of a Lower east Side defined by criminality,
brutality, drugs, aIDS, sex and excess. You
Killed Me First is published on the occasion of the
first exhibition on the Cinema of transgression.
978-3-86335-157-1
pbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 176 pgs / 80 b&w.
U.S. $25.00 CDn $25.00
august/Film & video/gay & Lesbian
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