Rimmer moved temporarily to New York City from 1971 to 1974, and worked with such vanguard artists as Yvonne Rainer.
Rainer Maria Rilke | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Rainer Maria Latzke | Yvonne Rainer | Yvonne Kenny | Yvonne De Carlo | Yvonne Catterfeld | Rainer Ganahl | Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria | Yvonne Sciò | Yvonne Printemps | Yvonne Arnaud | Rainer Stadelmann | Rainer Ptacek | Lyn Yvonne Abramson | Archduke Rainer of Austria | Yvonne Lim | Yvonne Jones | Yvonne Georgi | Yvonne Desportes | Yvonne Chaka Chaka | Rainer Schüttler | Rainer Riehn | Rainer Karlsch | Rainer Brüninghaus | Yvonne Vera | Yvonne Spigt | Yvonne Lime Fedderson | Yvonne Keeley | Yvonne Jacquette |
Halprin, along with her contemporaries such as Trisha Brown, Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer, John Cage, and Robert Morris, collaborated and built a community based around the fundamentals of post-modern dance.
From 1999 to 2000, she attended the renowned Whitney Independent Studio Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, where Isaac Julien, Yvonne Rainer, Mary Kelly, Hal Foster, and Benjamin Buchloh were among her teachers.
It regularly presented work by filmmakers such as Ken Jacobs, Johan van der Keuken, Yvonne Rainer, Christine Vachon, Dziga Vertov and many others who created films that were outside of the commercial mainstream in the United States.
At her suggestion in 1969, White took part in the dance concerts of Yvonne Rainer and Glen Lewis at the LA Conservatory of Music and Steve Paxton at Ace Gallery.