Originally, the text constituted the final paragraph of a longer article, Yvonne Rainer, « Some retrospective notes on a dance for 10 people and 12 mattresses called Parts of Some Sextets », Tulane Drama Review, New Orleans, vol. 10, n° 2, Winter 1965, p. 178

Author(s): Yvonne Rainer

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Language : English

Medium : Periodical Press

Original edition of the manifesto: Originally, the text constituted the final paragraph of a longer article, Yvonne Rainer, « Some retrospective notes on a dance for 10 people and 12 mattresses called Parts of Some Sextets », Tulane Drama Review, New Orleans, vol. 10, n° 2, Winter 1965, p. 178

Where can we find this manifesto? Sally Banes, Terpsichore en baskets. Post-modern dance, trad. Denise Luccioni, Paris, Chiron, Centre national de la danse, 2002, p. 90.

Link(s) to the manifesto: https://basemanart.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/yvonne-rainer-no-manifesto.html-charsetutf-8

Which critic recognizes the work as a manifesto ? or: Typical characteristics of a manifesto

Editorial comments: The text is widely recognised as a manifesto and published alone in the form of a leaflet. Event if the original text wasn't titled as manifesto, Rainer herself recognized this text as such: https://manifestos.mombartz.com/yvonne-rainer-no-manifesto/