4 In her famous “NO manifesto,” when Rainer said “no to moving and being moved,” this referred, as Sally Banes has shown, to being moved affectively and to moving the audience emotionally. Thus, in Lives, Rainer is taking up  the issue of emotion in dance that had been generally exiled during her more minimalist moments. See: Sally Banes, Dancing Women: Female Bodies on Stage (London: Routledge, 1998), p. 223.