The minimalist puritanism holding artists back from employing entertainments is nowhere better expressed than in the famous 1965 No Manifesto issued by the dancer and choreographer, Yvonne Rainer. Rainers spare approach to dance grew as much out of Bertolt Brechts distancing effect in theater as from the reductionist dictates of minimalist sculpture. Her intent: to eliminate any and all elements in her staged performances (and later her films) that might lead to entertainments. Her method of negation says: No to spectacle. No to virtuosity. No to transformations and magic and make-believe. No to the glamour and transcendency 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.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:30:20 +0000
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