This video features a studio run-through of Beach birds, in rehearsal clothes, without musical accompaniment. The rehearsal is filmed from an angle that does not show the whole studio.
Series statement
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Genre/Form
Dance.
Video.
Dance rehearsals.
Call number
*MGZIDF 2896
Language
No linguistic content
Note
Notes on original container: stage left.
Access (note)
Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Event (note)
Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, July 11, 1991.
Biography (note)
Beach birds premiered June 1991, with a musical score by John Cage.
Linking entry (note)
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Local note
Former classmark: *MGZIDVD 5-986.
Country of producing entity
U.S.
Performer
Rehearsed by members of Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Helen Barrow, Kimberly Bartosik, Michael Cole, Victoria Finlayson, Alan Good, David Kulick, Larissa McGoldrick, Randall Sanderson, Robert Swinston, Carol Teitelbaum, Jenifer Weaver.