Feelings Are Facts: A Life
ShareIn conversation with Irene Borger, dance ethnologist, writer and director, Alpert Award in the Arts
The personal and artistic coming of age of dancer, choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer, one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater in 1962: a vivid portrait of an extraordinary artist and woman in postwar America.
Presented on the occasion of the exhibition "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, 1965-1980" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer was one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater in 1962. Since 1972, she has completed seven feature-length films, one of which, Privilege (1990), won the Filmmakers Trophy at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival and the Geyer Werke Prize at the 1991 International Documentary Film Festival in Munich. Her work was recently seen in the exhibition Yvonne Rainer: Radical Juxtapositions: 1961-2002.
Irene Borger's articles have appeared in many publications including Vogue, O, and on The Wall Street Journal's arts page. From 1982 - 1990, under the name L.N. Halliburton, she wrote bi-weekly restaurant reviews for the Los Angeles Times. She founded the writing program at AIDS Project Los Angeles and served as artist-in-residence for ten years. The editor of From a Burning House published by Washington Sq. Press/Pocket Books. Borger serves as a writing consultant to wellness and psychoanalytic institutes throughout the United States; she is writing a book on listening.
