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Looking at dance Merce Cunningham speaks to the American Dance Festival community.
- Title
- Looking at dance [videorecording] : Merce Cunningham speaks to the American Dance Festival community.
- Publication
- 1996.
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- Found In
- Merce Cunningham archive.
- Description
- 1 videodisc (NTSC) (59 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Merce Cunningham begins the program by introducing David Vaughan, describing how Vaughan became involved with the Cunningham company. Cunningham continues to speak about his company's beginnings at Black Mountain College; the current state of the dance world, and the influence of television on how people view dance; his interest in pure movement; recollections of Mrs. Barrett, his first dance teacher; his collaborations with John Cage and other composers; his use of Life Forms computer software, and of chance procedures, in creating choreography. Vaughan and Cunningham answer questions from the audience, discussing the multiplicity of rhythms in Cunningham's choreography; the making of the work Ocean; how Cunningham was influenced by the I ching and by Zen Buddist ideas about decentralization; Cunningham's ideas about the expressive qualities of movement.
- Series Statement
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Video.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped at the American Dance Festival, Durham, N.C., on June 22, 1996.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
- Call Number
- *MGZIDVD 5-306
- OCLC
- NYPG05-F11310
- Title
- Looking at dance [videorecording] : Merce Cunningham speaks to the American Dance Festival community.
- Imprint
- 1996.
- Country of Producing Entity
- U.S.
- Series
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
- Performer
- Speakers: Merce Cunningham, David Vaughan.
- Event
- Videotaped at the American Dance Festival, Durham, N.C., on June 22, 1996.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
- Added Author
- Cunningham, Merce.Vaughan, David, 1924-American Dance Festival.
- Found In:
- Merce Cunningham archive.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIDVD 5-306