Nevertheless

A Choreographic Workbook

Yvonne Rainer, Emmanuèle Phuon, Pascal Lemaitre

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Yale University Press
27 December 2025

Dance; Other performing arts

A legendary choreographer's personal and practical guide to the art of dance-making

Yvonne Rainer was a founding member of the Judson Dance Theater, a New York artists' collective that revolutionized dance in the 1960s by championing ordinary, spare movements and spontaneity. Rainer's decades of creativity—in dance and in filmmaking—have inspired generations of avant-garde, political, and feminist choreographers. Her many works include the iconic dance Trio A and the film Hand Movie.

In this book, Rainer gathers teaching notes from her dance classes and workshops, passages from her creative journals, and her newer thoughts on movement and art, opening a window onto the life's work of a transformative artist. With fifty prompts for improvisational movement (""39. Travel a long distance as fast as you can while making regular changes in your means of locomotion""), sly illustrations by Pascal Lemaître, and an illuminating interview with Emmanuèle Phuon, this workbook makes Rainer's friendly, humorous, and down-to-earth creative practice available to everyone. Because, as Rainer says, if you can move, you are a dancer.

By: Yvonne Rainer
With: Emmanuèle Phuon
Illustrated by: Pascal Lemaitre
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9780300279283
ISBN 10: 0300279280
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 27 December 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Nevertheless: A Choreographic Workbook

“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