Solidarity Is Spirituality

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n , the dancer-choreographer Yvonne Rainer’s memoir, she describes an incident that’s always stuck with me. In 1971, during a blue-black period, she tried to kill herself by overdosing on sleeping pills alongside a slice of banana cream pie. She was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital to have her stomach pumped, and during her recovery a group of her students came and danced , Rainer’s famously stripped-down, no-eye-contact sequence, in the street outside. I love the idea of that, not just for the sense of