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Yvonne Rainer (b. 1934) is an American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker, and a cofounder of the Judson Dance Theater. She lives in New York City. Emmanuèle Phuon, a choreographer, dancer, and teacher, is a faculty member at Montclair State University, NYU Tisch School of the Arts’ Open Arts/Collaborative Arts, and Yale University. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. Pascal Lemaître is an author and illustrator based in Belgium. He has illustrated five books by Toni Morrison and his work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and elsewhere.

“A gem, full of unique ideas for choreographing and teaching movement to trained dancers and pedestrian performers. . . . Dancers, artists, musicians, choreographers, and educators will enjoy reading this engaging book by this inventive, critical thinker and creator.”—Nancy Alfaro, “Wendy Perron’s Notable Dance Books of 2025” (blog)“Rainer’s accomplishment in this book is to translate her artistic mind into a practice. It is of course then truly original, and she is sharing her originality generously, humanly, here in this book. It’s pure gold for someone who is wanting to wrestle with how this revolutionary choreographer upended art history.”—Annie-B Parson, Big Dance Theater