A legendary choreographer offers a personal and practical guide to the art of dance creation.

Yvonne Rainer was a founding member of the Judson Dance Theater, a New York-based art collective in the 1960s that supported simple, everyday movements and encounters. Rainer's creative career, both in dance and film, has inspired generations of avant-garde, political, and feminist choreographers. Her works include the iconic dance Trio A and the film Hand Movie.

In this book, dancer and choreographer Emmanuèle Phuon helps Rainer compile notes from her dance classes and workshops, excerpts from her creative journals, and thoughts on movement and art, offering a glimpse into the life’s work of a transformative artist.

With fifty prompts for improvisational movement (“39. Travel a great distance as quickly as possible by making regular changes to your method of movement”) and sharp illustrations by Pascal Lemaître, this workshop makes accessible Rainer's friendly, humorous, and down-to-earth creative practice to all. Because, as Rainer says, if you can move, you are a dancer.