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The conversation about Yvonne Rainer's TRIO A performance from 1966 was held with Sara Wookey, dance scholar and official “transmitter” of TRIO A, participating dancers and Yvonne Rainer answering some question via a pre-recorded Zoom call.
Rainer abandoned the aesthetics of classical and modern dance, based on virtuosity, technique and intense physical tension, in favor of a more unadorned physicality and continuity of movement. The supposed ordinariness of the individual movements in TRIO A had a profound influence on the development of postmodern dance.
Although the dance appears effortless, it is difficult to learn due to the precise articulation of hands, arms, shoulders, feet and legs. The performance is Rainer’s best-known work and revolutionized contemporary dance in the 1960s in a way that paralleled the developments of Minimalism in the visual arts.
For the Berlin performance, dancer and scholar Sara Wookey will ‘transmit’ TRIO A to the dancers Esther Cowens, Fred Gehrig and Emily Ranford, based on her long standing collaboration with Rainer.
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