Philadelphia Dance Projects presents the local premiere of a new documentary film written and directed by Jack Walsh, Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer. The 6:00pm screening will be followed at 8:00pm by a one-hour artist talk by Yvonne Rainer. Tickets are available for one or both events, and light refreshments will be served during the intermission.

Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer (82 min) tells the riveting story of one of America's most important choreographers and filmmakers. In 1962, Yvonne Rainer and a group of maverick choreographers known as the Judson Dance Theater revolutionized dance by introducing everyday movements like walking and running, performing in street clothes and sneakers, and screaming and yelling into the dance lexicon. Not content in dance, in the early ‘70s Rainer introduced narrative filmmaking into American avant‐garde film, turning a structuralism‐dominated genre on its head. A MacArthur “genius” grant recipient, she is a breast cancer survivor who, at age 50, came out as a lesbian. Today, at 80, we follow Rainer as she continues creating vibrant, courageous, unpredictable dances that mix artistic disciplines and invite audiences to question the very assumptions of dance and performance.

Artist Talk by Yvonne Rainer  (60 min)

WHAT’S SO FUNNY? LAUGHTER AND ANGER IN THE TIME OF THE ASSASSINS: “An amalgam of jokes and rants around the current emotional and political dilemmas of the artist and concerned citizen.”