Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Cunningham, Merce
2. Barrow, Helen
3. Kerr, Catherine
4. Lent, Patricia
5. Radford, Karen, 1957-
6. Remley, Rob
7. Santimyer, Kristy
8. Swinston, Robert
9. Walker, Megan
10. Quinn, Susan
11. Cunningham, Merce
12. Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Found in

1. Merce Cunningham archive.

Description

1. 1 streaming video file (16 min.) : sd., col.

Summary

1. This video features an incomplete studio run-through of Arcade, in rehearsal clothes, without musical accompaniment. The remainder of the video features run-throughs of Shards and Fabrications recorded in 1987.

Series statement

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection

Genre/Form

1. Dance.
2. Video.
3. Dance rehearsals.

Call number

1. *MGZIDF 1990

Note

1. Note on original container: stage left.

With (note)

1. On reel with: Shards [and] Fabrications, rehearsals (55 min.) Total time: 71 min.

Access (note)

1. Patrons can access streaming video file only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, Aug. 16, 1985.

Biography (note)

1. Arcade was commissioned by the Pennsylvania Ballet and premiered Sept. 1985 at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia; Arcade was first performed by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in November, 1985 at the University of Pennsylvania. Arcade had a musical score by John Cage.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.

Title

1. Arcade [excerpt] [electronic resource] : [rehearsal] / choreography by Merce Cunningham.

Imprint

1. 1985.

Country of producing entity

1. U.S.

Series

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection

With:

1. On reel with: Shards [and] Fabrications, rehearsals (55 min.) Total time: 71 min.

Performer

1. Rehearsed by members of Merce Cunningham Dance Company, including Helen Barrow, Catherine Kerr, Patricia Lent, Karen Radford, Rob Remley, Kristy Santimyer, Robert Swinston, Megan Walker, Susan Quinn Young and others.

Event

1. Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, Aug. 16, 1985.

Biography

1. Arcade was commissioned by the Pennsylvania Ballet and premiered Sept. 1985 at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia; Arcade was first performed by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in November, 1985 at the University of Pennsylvania. Arcade had a musical score by John Cage.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.

Local note

1. Former classmark: *MGZIDVD 5-969.
2. The run-through is filmed from an angle that does not show the entire studio. For another recording of the same rehearsal filmed from a different angle (stage right) see *MGZIDF 1989.

Access

1. Patrons can access streaming video file only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Cunningham, Merce, choreographer.
2. Barrow, Helen, dancer.
3. Kerr, Catherine, dancer.
4. Lent, Patricia, dancer.
5. Radford, Karen, 1957- dancer.
6. Remley, Rob, dancer.
7. Santimyer, Kristy, dancer.
8. Swinston, Robert, dancer.
9. Walker, Megan, dancer.
10. Quinn, Susan, dancer.
11. Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
12. Cunningham, Merce. Arcade.

Found in:

1. Merce Cunningham archive.

Research call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-969 (former)