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Yvonne Rainer. The Mind Is a Muscle, Part I (Trio A). 1973. Practicing Trio A JULIA BRYAN-WILSON Walk On This is a text about embodiment and presence, about specters and time. It is about tempo, about slowness, about pacing, about duration, about counting, about the routines we give ourselves to make it through hard times. It is about âgoing through the motions.â It is, more specifically, about the enduranceâone could say hauntingâof a single set of motions, routines, and gestures: Y vonne Rainerâs Trio A. Choreographed over a six-month span in 1965, and first performed in 1966, the dance has been understood as inaugurating a new field of practice that embraced laconic movements and ordinary bodies, and helped usher in postmodern, task-based dance.1 In addition, Trio A has refigured what it means to talk about the mediumâor mediumsâof contemporary art. Though many are familiar with this now-canonical work, here is some basic descriptive ground: in Trio A the performersâoften a mix of dancers and nondancersâgenerally wear normal street clothes, usually dance without musical accompaniment, and perform the same movements together, but not in unison.2 The sequence of unpredictable actions, ones that disregard dance conventions of phrasing and climax,
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Published: May 1, 2012
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