Hannah Woods

 From right to left: Brittany Engel-Adams, Vincent McCloskey, Brittany Bailey, and David Thomson in Yvonne Rainer’s Hellzapoppin’: What About the Bees? , 2022. Courtesy: Performa and New York Live Arts. Photo: Maria Baranova

From right to left: Brittany Engel-Adams, Vincent McCloskey, Brittany Bailey, and David Thomson in Yvonne Rainer’s Hellzapoppin’: What About the Bees?, 2022. Courtesy: Performa and New York Live Arts. Photo: Maria Baranova

Premiered in Europe last month at Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Yvonne Rainer’s final performance aspires to complicate her legacy on questions of exclusion.