St. Mark's Bookshop

St. Mark's Bookshop presents:Yvonne Rainer Tuesday, December 6th at 7PMThe reading will take place at:St. Marks Bookshop31 Third Avenue (at 9th Street)New York, NY 10003 Subway: 6 to Astor Place, N/R to 8th Street, L to 14th St/3rd AvenueThis is a free eventRSVP at https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=291635880858259 For more information please visit the shop, call (212)260-7853 or email stmarksbooks@gmail.comBadlands Unlimited and St. Mark's Bookshop present choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer. Poems is a collection of never before published poems by Yvonne Rainer. Full of wit and candor, they offer a window into the life and mind of one of America’s greatest living artists. Accompanying the poems is a selection of images curated by Rainer and an introduction by poet and critic Tim Griffin.Yvonne Rainer was born in San Francisco in 1934. She trained as a modern dancer in New York and began to choreograph her own work in l960. She was one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater in l962, a movement that proved to be a vital force in modern art and dance in the following decades. Since 1972, Rainer has completed seven feature-length films, beginning with Lives of Performers (1972) and more recently The Man Who Envied Women (1985), Privilege (1990), and MURDER and murder (1996). A memoir, Feelings are Facts: a Life, was published by MIT Press in 2006. "Best Reading Series" - The Gothamist, 2011