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Interview with Merce Cunningham about Black Mountain College unedited excerpts.
- Title
- Interview with Merce Cunningham about Black Mountain College [videorecording] : unedited excerpts.
- Publication
- 1986.
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- Additional Authors
- Cunningham, Merce.
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham archive.
- Description
- 1 videodisc (NTSC) (9 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- This disc contains unedited excerpts from an interview with Merce Cunningham on the subject of Black Mountain College, where Cunningham taught periodically beginning in 1948. Only Cunningham's comments are excerpted on the disc. He discusses recollections of fellow staff and students, including Josef Albers, Charles Olson, and Willem De Kooning; a theatrical performance created by John Cage and known as the first "happening;" Cunningham's first collaboration with Robert Rauschenberg; and the communal atmosphere and schooling system of the college.
- Series Statement
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Video.
- Note
- Title from original container.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped at Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, N.C., on June 15, 1986.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
- Call Number
- *MGZIDVD 5-464
- OCLC
- NYPG05-F11192
- Title
- Interview with Merce Cunningham about Black Mountain College [videorecording] : unedited excerpts.
- Imprint
- 1986.
- Country of Producing Entity
- U.S.
- Series
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
- Event
- Videotaped at Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, N.C., on June 15, 1986.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
- Added Author
- Cunningham, Merce. Interviewee
- Found In:
- Merce Cunningham archive.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIDVD 5-464