Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Cunningham, Merce
2. Andrieux, Cédric
3. Bokaer, Jonah
4. Chen, Ashley
5. Farmer, Holley
6. Goggans, Jennifer
7. Mizuta, Koji
8. Steele, Jeannie K.
9. Swan, Derry
10. Swinston, Robert
11. Therrien, Cheryl
12. Cunningham, Merce
13. Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Found in

1. Merce Cunningham archive.

Description

1. 1 streaming video file (39 min.) : sd., col.

Summary

1. This video features two studio run-throughs of RainForest, in rehearsal clothes, without musical accompaniment, by alternate casts.

Series statement

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection

Genre/Form

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

Contents

1. RainForest (group 1) / rehearsed by Cédric Andrieux, Jonah Bokaer, Holley Farmer, Jeannie Steele, Derry Swan, Robert Swinston (20 min.) -- RainForest (group 2) / rehearsed by Ashley Chen, Jennifer Goggans, Koji Mizuta, Cheryl Therrien and others (19 min.)

Call number

1. *MGZIDF 2973

Note

1. Note on original container: SR [i.e. stage right].

Access (note)

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

Event (note)

1. Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, on Jan. 23, 2003.

Biography (note)

1. RainForest, which premiered in 1968, was revived by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for the company's 50th anniversary celebration at the Lincoln Center Festival, July 2002.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.

Title

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

Imprint

1. 2003.

Country of producing entity

1. U.S.

Series

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection

Performer

1. Rehearsed by members of Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Cédric Andrieux, Jonah Bokaer, Ashley Chen, Holley Farmer, Jennifer Goggans, Koji Mizuta, Jeannie Steele, Derry Swan, Robert Swinston, Cheryl Therrien and others.

Event

1. Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, on Jan. 23, 2003.

Biography

1. RainForest, which premiered in 1968, was revived by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for the company's 50th anniversary celebration at the Lincoln Center Festival, July 2002.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.

Local note

1. Former classmark: *MGZIDVD 5-422.
2. The rehearsal 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 left), see *MGZIDF 2974.

Access

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

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Cunningham, Merce, choreographer.
2. Andrieux, Cédric, dancer.
3. Bokaer, Jonah, dancer.
4. Chen, Ashley, dancer.
5. Farmer, Holley, dancer.
6. Goggans, Jennifer, dancer.
7. Mizuta, Koji, dancer.
8. Steele, Jeannie K., dancer.
9. Swan, Derry, dancer.
10. Swinston, Robert, dancer.
11. Therrien, Cheryl, dancer.
12. Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
13. Cunningham, Merce. RainForest.

Found in:

1. Merce Cunningham archive.

Research call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-422 (former)