Remembering a Dance Part of Some Sextets 1965/2019: Yvonne Rainer. Emily Coates, Nick Mauss Naples Via an afterimage effect

Via an afterimage effect

abstraction to Ben Nicholson

it is made for time

interventions and texts explore the ecologies of human and more-than-human bodies with particular attention to movement and matter

Remembering a Dance Part of Some Sextets 1965/2019: Yvonne Rainer. Emily Coates, Nick Mauss Naples Via an afterimage effectParts 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