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Tramway presents the first major European career survey of the work of Yvonne Rainer across the two mediums with which she has been internationally influential: dance and film. With 22 works, from four decades, the survey offers the opportunity to contemplate the career of an exemplary, radical artist who has consistently defied conformity, smashed glass ceilings and revolutionised art. The survey includes: a full retrospective of her seven uncompromising feature films; an evening dedicated to her decisive, early short films; a Teach-In for creatives; two evening programmes of dance; a live lecture and a reading and book-signing event. Friday 8 October is dedicated to her early revolutionary dance works including Rainer herself, at the age of 75, dancing her signature work, Trio A with an all female company, ranging in age from 30 to 60. Saturday 9 October is dedicated to her most recent choreographic works RoS Indexical (2007) and Spiraling Down (2008). On Saturday 9 October, at noon, Rainer will demonstrate her life-long feminist credentials by reading from, and signing copies of her memoir Feelings are Facts, A Life (2006) at Glasgow Women’s Library. Yvonne Rainer: Dance and Film is curated by Jason Bowman in association with Tramway.