The Tate Modern is hosting a public performance of Yvonne Rainer's 'Trio A' to commemorate the 60th anniversary of a work that fundamentally transformed contemporary dance. Performed without admission charge, the piece has become accessible to diverse audiences—art students, families, tourists, and schoolchildren. Each performance consists of three dancers moving through the same sequence of movements, but at self-determined speeds, causing them to fall progressively out of alignment with one another.

Rainer pioneered a radical reimagining of dance by incorporating everyday physical actions and deliberately removing theatrical conventions. The performers direct their attention inward toward their own bodies rather than toward spectators or each other, eliminating psychological drama from the work. This approach allows each dancer's age, body type, and natural rhythm to shape how the choreography unfolds, creating organic variation within a precisely defined movement vocabulary.