Word: texts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...text for this intellectual manipulation of movement, people and objects was Rainer's preoccupation with perception and her attempt to shock her audience into seeing the "essentials" of dance. Rainer describes her tactics variously...
...work which pulled these concern together, This is the Story of Woman Who... (1973), presented changing tableaus of a man and woman in domestic settings. A third observer and projected slides with printed text supplied narration. Alternating with the script were stills from Hitch-cock's Psycho, photos from the performers' family albums, and snaps of familiar landmarks. Rainer included "Trio A" from The Mind is a Muscle along with references from other earlier works--a red ball, books, a gift, mattresses. (She conveniently schematizes these motifs in an appendix, "Etymology of objects, configurations and characters...
...persona of the performer, rather than the medium of the body, became her starting point. Indeterminate structures gave way to melodramatic narrative. The issue of perception broadened into a concern with media: how to "warp" an audience's view of situations on stage through the choice of medium (printed text, spoken text, film); how to distance blatantly private experience through the interjection of cliche or pop cuture. Work 1961-73 itself comes out of the same sort of questioning: in what form to cast the fiction of the self...
This is not to imply that Rainer is a sell-out. The works documented in this book have an unmistakable Rainer style even on the page: range of association and depth of sub-text; a touch of the banal; irony sometimes ridiculous, often disorienting. That Rainer in Work 1961-73 could recreate this style through her writing--there are no words...
...fact, Wright has been an elder of Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church. But not until last year did he fully accept Jesus as a "personal Saviour." His decision came at a special series of "renewal" services at his church, where he heard a St. Louis minister preach on the famous text from the Gospel of St. John, in which Jesus tells Nicodemus that he must be "born again" to gain eternal life. "The sermon turned my life around," recalls Wright. Now he rises at 5:30 a.m. to read the Bible and pray. He joins fellow Christians in discussion groups...