Remembering a Dance Part of Some Sextets 1965/2019: Yvonne Rainer. Emily Coates, Nick Mauss Naples instructions and textual and graphic

instructions and textual and graphic scores centred on walking

it is made for time

mixing different literary forms – fiction

REPRINTING

this New York Times Notable Book includes "Bloodchild

Remembering a Dance Part of Some Sextets 1965/2019: Yvonne Rainer. Emily Coates, Nick Mauss Naples instructions and textual and graphicParts of Some Sextets, Yvonne Rainers 1965 performance for ten people and twelve mattresses, represents a turning point in the American choreographers oeuvre. My mattress monster, as Rainer calls it, was built in her formative years with the experimental downtown New York group Judson Dance Theater. In this work, she asserted her exploration of ordinary actions as well as her disregard for narrative constructions to create an intricate choreography