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The Drama Review, Volume 24 - March 1980

Contents

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Women and Performance Issue

  • Yvonne Rainer's Journeys from Berlin/1971

  • Ann Sargent-Wooster
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    07 December 2021, pp. 101-118

  • Before 1970 Yvonne Rainer's career conformed to the general outlines of the other dancers of the Judson Church group (T30). The dance sections of her multimedia events combined formal dance steps with everyday movements in a nonhierarchical order. In 1970 she traveled to India with the Grand Union. There she became fascinated with the classical theatre of India and for a time followed the touring Kathakali, whose performances lasted all night (T50). This experience with the impact of a storytelling form caused her to focus on narrative and on film. Both had previously been in her work, but they were now given greater prominence. By the mid-1970s she had stopped performing entirely and devoted herself exclusively to film. In a 1971 essay she wrote,

    I'm no longer Interested in mixed media. You can either make a movie or you don't make a movie. I didn't make movies. I made choreographic exercises that were meant to be viewed with one's peripheral vision.

    (Yvonne Rainer Work 1961-73)

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Theatre Reports

  • The New Mime Festival at Dance Theatre Workshop

  • Kitty Cunningham
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    07 December 2021, pp. 103-110

  • Mime in America today is a many-faceted art form without a single clear definition or a place to call its own. Mime is sometimes joined with theatre, sometimes placed with dance. To some people it is street mime or clowns but since 1955, when Marcel Marceau took the country by storm, most people associate mime with white-face illusionary pantomime vignettes, if they think of mime at all.

    When David White produced four American mime artists in September 1980 under the heading “New Mime: New Investigations in a Theatre of Movement” at the Dance Theatre Workshop, it was no accident that the word “new” was used twice in the title. By presenting some of the most imaginative concert artists working in mime today, White took an innovative step toward reaching a fresh audience for what has been consistently a neglected stepchild of the arts.

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Front matter

  • THD volume 24 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

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    07 December 2021, pp. f1-f3
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Back matter

  • THD volume 24 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

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    07 December 2021, pp. b1-b25
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