Cage/Cunningham [electronic resource] / produced by the Cunningham Dance Foundation in association with La Sept ; directed and edited by Elliot Caplan ; choreography by Merce Cunningham ; music by John Cage and others ; written by David Vaughan.
1 streaming video file (95 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences
Summary
Documentary on composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham at work and at leisure, filmed over an eight-year period and supplemented by archival footage spanning their fifty-year collaboration. In interviews captured at different times and places, Cage, Cunningham, and performers, composers, artists, and other associates discuss aspects of their professional and personal interactions. Dance and music excerpts, recorded in performance and rehearsal, demonstrate the richness and variety of their productions. Full information on these excerpts appears at the end of the program.
Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Performer (note)
Interviewees: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg, Viola Farber, Carolyn Brown, Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, La Monte Young, Gordon Mumma, Rudolf Nureyev, M.C. Richards, Michel Guy, Doris Dennison, David Tudor, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Irwin Kremen, Bonnie Bird, Virgil Thomson, Marianne Preger Simon, Remy Charlip.
Also appearing on camera: Edwin Denby.
Title
Cage/Cunningham [electronic resource] / produced by the Cunningham Dance Foundation in association with La Sept ; directed and edited by Elliot Caplan ; choreography by Merce Cunningham ; music by John Cage and others ; written by David Vaughan.
Imprint
West Long Branch, N.J. : Kultur, c1991.
Country of producing entity
U.S.
Performer
Interviewees: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg, Viola Farber, Carolyn Brown, Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, La Monte Young, Gordon Mumma, Rudolf Nureyev, M.C. Richards, Michel Guy, Doris Dennison, David Tudor, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Irwin Kremen, Bonnie Bird, Virgil Thomson, Marianne Preger Simon, Remy Charlip.
Performer
Also appearing on camera: Edwin Denby.
Local note
Former classmarks: *MGZIDVD 5-2142 / *MGZIA 4-3045.
Access
Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.