Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Cunningham, Merce
2. Boudreau, Lisa
3. Caley, Thomas
4. Freebury, Jean
5. Gafner, Frédéric
6. Kulick, David
7. Mohr, Matthew D.
8. Ogan, Banu
9. Phillips, Jared
10. Steele, Jeannie K.
11. Swan, Derry
12. Swinston, Robert
13. Therrien, Cheryl
14. Cunningham, Merce
15. Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Found in

1. Merce Cunningham archive.

Description

1. 1 streaming video file (102 min.) : sd., col.

Summary

1. This video features a run-through of Ocean, in rehearsal clothes, without musical accompaniment, followed by a run-through of an excerpt from Installations.

Series statement

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection

Genre/Form

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

Contents

1. Ocean (90 min.) -- Installations [excerpt] (12 min.)

Call number

1. *MGZIDF 3602

Note

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

Access (note)

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

Event (note)

1. Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, June 1998.

Biography (note)

1. Ocean premiered at the Cirque Royal in Brussels on May 18, 1994, with a musical score by David Tudor and Andrew Culver, based on ideas of John Cage. Installations premiered in Seattle on May 2, 1996 with a musical score by Trimpin. Ocean and Installations were both revived by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1998.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.

Title

1. Ocean [and] sequences from Installations [electronic resource] : [rehearsal] / choreography by Merce Cunningham.

Imprint

1. 1998.

Country of producing entity

1. U.S.

Series

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection

Performer

1. Rehearsed by members of Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Lisa Boudreau, Thomas Caley, Jean Freebury, Foofwa d'Imobilité [aka Frédéric Gafner], David Kulick, Matthew Mohr, Banu Ogan, Jared Phillips, Jeannie Steele, Derry Swan, Robert Swinston, Cheryl Therrien, and others.

Event

1. Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, June 1998.

Biography

1. Ocean premiered at the Cirque Royal in Brussels on May 18, 1994, with a musical score by David Tudor and Andrew Culver, based on ideas of John Cage. Installations premiered in Seattle on May 2, 1996 with a musical score by Trimpin. Ocean and Installations were both revived by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1998.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.

Local note

1. 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 2953.
2. Former classmark: *MGZIDVD 5-434.

Access

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

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Cunningham, Merce, choreographer.
2. Boudreau, Lisa, dancer.
3. Caley, Thomas, dancer.
4. Freebury, Jean, dancer.
5. Gafner, Frédéric, dancer.
6. Kulick, David, dancer.
7. Mohr, Matthew D., dancer.
8. Ogan, Banu, dancer.
9. Phillips, Jared, dancer.
10. Steele, Jeannie K., dancer.
11. Swan, Derry, dancer.
12. Swinston, Robert, dancer.
13. Therrien, Cheryl, dancer.
14. Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
15. Cunningham, Merce. Ocean.
16. Cunningham, Merce. Installations.

Research call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-434 (former)