This video features a studio run-through of Roaratorio, in rehearsal clothes, without musical accompaniment.
Series statement
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Genre/Form
Dance.
Video.
Dance rehearsals.
Call number
*MGZIDF 1987
Note
Note on original container: SL [i.e. 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 1, 1985.
Biography (note)
Roaratorio, subtitled An Irish circus on Finnegan's Wake, premiered Oct. 26, 1983 in Lille, France, with a musical score by John Cage.
Linking entry (note)
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Title
Roaratorio [electronic resource] : [rehearsal. July 1, 1985] / choreography by Merce Cunningham.
Imprint
1985.
Country of producing entity
U.S.
Series
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Performer
Rehearsed by members of Merce Cunningham Dance Company, including Helen Barrow, Merce Cunningham, Victoria Finlayson, Alan Good, Neil Greenberg, Chris Komar, Patricia Lent, Rob Remley, Kristy Santimyer, Kevin Schroder, Robert Swinston, Megan Walker, Susan Quinn Young, and others.
Event
Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, July 1, 1985.
Biography
Roaratorio, subtitled An Irish circus on Finnegan's Wake, premiered Oct. 26, 1983 in Lille, France, with a musical score by John Cage.
Linking entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Local note
Former classmark: *MGZIDVD 5-966.
The rehearsal is shot from an angle that does not show the entire studio. For a recording of Roaratorio filmed at the same rehearsal from a different angle (stage right) see *MGZIDF 1986.
Access
Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.