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A dance to which the page was integral—fittingly for the linguistically inclined Rainer, who has penned a number of essays on her choreographies—Parts of Some Sextets was not only scored via a chart, but also timed to a book: Performers were cued by an audio tape of Rainer reading excerpts from the diary of William Bentley (1759–1819), a Salem minister who fastidiously recorded notable local events (an eclipse, a death, the arrival of an elephant).
The exhibition curated by Fernanda Brenner brings together a vast range of media, as well as artists from different contexts and career stages. Its title comes from a letter by the poet Paul Celan written in 1960.
In New York and later in Los Angeles, he challenged notions of what dance is and isn’t with choreography built around stripped-down movement. An obituary by Penelope Green for The New York Times. Rudy Perez, a minimalist choreographer who was a pioneer of postmodern dance, a movement that upended notions of what dance might look…