Yvonne Rainer wrote her famous No Manifesto in 1965 as a statement of what she rejected about contemporary dance. I accept and appreciate the No Manifesto and offer the Yes Manifesto in response
The NO Manifesto by Yvonne Rainer
No to spectacle.
No to virtuosity.
No to transformations and magic and make-believe.
No to the glamour and transcendency of the star image.
No to the heroic.
No to the anti-heroic.
No to trash imagery.
No to involvement of performer or spectator,
No to style.
No to camp.
No to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the performer.
No to eccentricity.
No to moving or being moved.
The YES manifesto By Shabari Rao
Yes to rigour, discipline, and clarity
Yes to working with, and through the body
Yes to taking the spectator along
Yes to fragility
Yes to constraint
Yes to the personal
Yes to the political
Yes to the body creating meaning
