November 3, 2024: POSTPONED - Yvonne Rainer: Film screening & discussion
Yvonne Rainer’s evening has been postponed.
We will let you know of the new date as soon as possible.
Sundays on Broadway co-curators Malcolm-x Betts and Cathy Weis welcome Yvonne Rainer back to WeisAcres to present her feature-length film Journeys From Berlin/1971.
Journeys From Berlin/1971 emerged from Rainer's yearlong residency in West Berlin during the Bader-Meinhof protests against the continued prominence of Nazi sympathizers in the West German government. The film was completed in 1980. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the audience led by Rainer.
Run time: 125 minutes.
Sundays on Broadway
6:00 p.m. - doors open at 5:45 p.m.
WeisAcres, 537 Broadway #3
New York, NY 10012
All donations go to the performers.
$5-20 suggested.
Thank you to IndieSpace and their Little Venue That Could Program for helping to make this season possible.
The Little Venue That Could Program is supported by the Howard Gilman Foundation.
Artist's bio:
Yvonne Rainer, born in 1934, was a co-founder of the Judson Dance Theater in 1962. She choreographed dances from 1960 to 1973, made seven feature-length films between 1972 and 1996, and returned to dance in 2000. Her work has been seen internationally and rewarded with museum exhibitions, awards, and grants. Feelings Are Facts: A Life was published in 2006. Poems was published in 2012. She currently lives in New York City.