This video features a run-through of BIPED, in rehearsal clothes, without musical accompaniment. The run-through lasts 28 min. The last 3 min. of the video features an additional run-through of an excerpt from BIPED.
Series statement
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Genre/Form
Dance.
Video.
Dance rehearsals.
Call number
*MGZIDF 2955
Note
Note on original container: SL [i.e. stage left].
Last 4 minutes of video are blank.
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, Aug. 6, 1998.
Biography (note)
BIPED premiered in Apr. 1999, with a musical score by Gavin Bryars.
Linking entry (note)
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Title
BIPED [electronic resource] : [rehearsal] / choreography by Merce Cunningham.
Imprint
1998.
Country of producing entity
U.S.
Series
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Performer
Rehearsed by members of Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Lisa Boudreau, Thomas Caley, Jean Freebury, Foofwa d'Imobilité [aka Frédéric Gafner], Banu Ogan, Jared Phillips, Jeannie Steele, Robert Swinston, Cheryl Therrien, and others.
Event
Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, Aug. 6, 1998.
Biography
BIPED premiered in Apr. 1999, with a musical score by Gavin Bryars.
Linking entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Local note
Former classmark: *MGZIDVD 5-437.
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 right), see *MGZIDF 2954.
Access
Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.