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A day with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Title
  1. A day with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company [videorecording] / [a talk by David Vaughan presented by] Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival as part of the Pillow Talk picnic series.
Published by
  1. 1998.

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Additional authors
  1. Vaughan, David, 1924-
  2. Cunningham, Merce
  3. Olivé-Bellés, Nuria
  4. Cunningham, Merce
  5. Merce Cunningham Dance Company
  6. Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
Found in
  1. Merce Cunningham archive.
Description
  1. 1 videodisc (NTSC) (66 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  1. David Vaughan speaks about Merce Cunningham's career in dance. Vaughan's talk is structured around four events that Cunningham stated had influenced his choreographic development: his collaborations with John Cage; his use of chance procedures in creating choreography; his work with film and video; and his use of Life Forms computer software. In addition to discussing these topics, Vaughan summarizes the history of the Cunningham Dance Company and briefly discusses the works appearing on the upcoming evening's program: Pond way, Winterbranch, and CRWDSPCR. Finally, Vaughan shows an excerpt from the film CRWDSPCR (directed by Elliot Caplan), including footage of Cunningham coaching his company in a studio dress rehearsal and comments from dancers on the difficulty of performing Cunningham's choreography.
Series statement
  1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Subject
  1. Cunningham, Merce
  2. Cunningham, Merce > CRWDSPCR
  3. Arts > Experimental methods
  4. Video
  5. Artistic collaboration
  6. Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Genre/Form
  1. Video.
Call number
  1. *MGZIDVD 5-312
Note
  1. Title from screen.
Credits (note)
  1. Videographer: Nuria Olivé-Bellés.
Event (note)
  1. Videotaped in Blake's Barn, Jacob's Pillow, Becket, Mass., on July 29, 1998.
Linking entry (note)
  1. Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Title
  1. A day with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company [videorecording] / [a talk by David Vaughan presented by] Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival as part of the Pillow Talk picnic series.
Imprint
  1. 1998.
Country of producing entity
  1. U.S.
Series
  1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Credits
  1. Videographer: Nuria Olivé-Bellés.
Performer
  1. Dancers on video of CRWDSPCR rehearsal: Kimberley Bartosik, Michael Cole, Jean Freebury, Frédéric Gafner, Alan Good, Patricia Lent, Banu Ogan, Jeannie Steele, Robert Swinston, Cheryl Therrien, Jenifer Weaver.
Event
  1. Videotaped in Blake's Barn, Jacob's Pillow, Becket, Mass., on July 29, 1998.
Linking entry
  1. Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Local note
  1. For the complete film CRWDSPCR, see *MGZIDVD 5-316.
Added author
  1. Vaughan, David, 1924- Speaker
  2. Cunningham, Merce, choreographer.
  3. Olivé-Bellés, Nuria. Videographer
  4. Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
  5. Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.
  6. Cunningham, Merce. CRWDSPCR.
Found in:
  1. Merce Cunningham archive.
Research call number
  1. *MGZIDVD 5-312
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