Deborah Jowitt on Yvonne Rainer's "RoS Indexical" at Hudson Theater
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Deborah Jowitt / The Village Voice
Yvonne Rainer
RoS Indexical - Performance Details
Performa 07
Hudson Theater
November 18-19, 2007
"Rite in Progress: Yvonne Rainer Jumps Over Two Sets of Decades"
"RoS Indexical, commissioned by Performa 07 for its three-week art fest, is a double palimpsest rooted in Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, as choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Rainer focuses on the 1913 Paris premiere, during which spectators scandalized by Stravinsky's dissonances and Nijinsky's primitivism yelled their disapproval and were shushed, even punched, by partisans." Read review...
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