Famous People with Name Yvonne

Yvonne Rainer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Yvonne Rainer: an American choreographer and filmmaker, whose work in both disciplines is frequently challenging and experimental.In 1957 Rainer moved to New York to study theater. She found herself more strongly drawn to modern dance than acting, however, and began studying at the Martha Graham School and later with Merce Cunningham. Rainer was one of the organizers of the Judson Dance Theater, a focal point for vanguard activity in the dance world throughout the 1960s, and she formed her own company for a brief time after the Judson performances ended. Rainer is noted for an approach to dance that treats the body more as the source of an infinite variety of movements than as the purveyor of emotion or drama. Many of the elements she employed—such as repetition,

Yvonne Maria Van Gennip            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Yvonne Maria Van Gennip: was one of the most successful female Dutch all-round speed skaters. Her main success dates from the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, where she surprisingly won three gold medals.

Yvonne Fair            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Yvonne Fair: was an African American singer, best known for her 1976 recording of "It Should Have Been Me".Born Flora Yvonne Coleman in Richmond, Virginia, Fair got her start as a latter-day member of the re-formulated Chantels and the James Brown Revue.[1] Whilst per

Yvonne C. Sherman Tutt            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Yvonne C. Sherman Tutt: was an American figure skater. She won the gold medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships twice in ladies' single skating and once in pair skating with Robert Swenning. Sherman competed in both disciplines in the 1948 Winter Olympics. After her compe

Yvonne Gómez Muñoz            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Yvonne Gómez Muñoz: is a Spanish-American figure skater who competed internationally for both Spain and the United States. She represented Spain at the 1988 Winter Olympics where she finished 18th.