More or less recovered from the conference and safely ensconced back home, Dean and I joined David for an early spring Sunday stroll through the WV and a delicious brunch. Afterward, David took his leave of us to engage in one of life’s simple pleasures while Dean and I headed uptown to MOMA for a performance of Yvonne Rainer‘s dance piece Trio A. The reinterpretation, performed by one formally trained dancer and two visual artists, took place in a corner of the second floor, against a projection backdrop of Rainer performing the piece in the 1970s (video below). The setting was perfect, and the performance was great. After, we ran into an old friend from Miami, a dancer, who filled us in on the historical significance of the piece: its “de-dramatization” of dance and emphasis instead on the everydayness of moving around. We liked the explanation, and proceeded to engage in our own everyday moving around, winding a bit about the neighborhood until finding a train to shuttle us back downtown.
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