Philly dance world celebrates modern master Yvonne Rainer

Beginning in 1962, Yvonne Rainer, along with other dance innovators of the last half-century, experimented at the Judson Church in lower Manhattan. They became the Judson Dance Theater, and by 1964 they spun off in their own orbits without losing touch with one another. Rainer wrote her famous "No Manifesto," which attempted to negate American dance conventions. Rainer now says the manifesto "dogs my heels," but some of its dictums continue to shape contemporary dance to this day.