"American choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer is one of the most influential artistic figures of the last fifty years and a major innovator in several disciplines, from dance and cinema, to feminist theory and poetry. As a founding member of the Judson Dance Theatre in New York – an informal experimental collective that gave birth to postmodern dance in the 1960s – Rainer was one of the leaders of a generation that expanded the conventions of dance and performance by exploring the use of banal, everyday actions and tasks such as standing still, walking, and running."