Jacob's Pillow post performance talk with Merce Cunningham
- Title
- Jacob's Pillow post performance talk with Merce Cunningham [videorecording].
- Published by
- 1997.
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Status | Format | Access | Call number | Item location |
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Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance. | FormatMoving image | AccessUse in library | Call number*MGZIDVD 5-309 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional authors
- Found in
- Merce Cunningham archive.
- Description
- 1 videodisc (NTSC) (31 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Merce Cunningham answers questions from moderator Suzanne Carbonneau and from the audience after a performance by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Cunningham discusses the structures of his dances, in particular Rondo; variables and complexity in his choreography; how the dancers in his company keep track of timing without reference to music; his use of chance operations; the method of his collaborations with composers and visual artists; his use of computer software in creating choreography; dealing with creative "block"; and how dancers enter his company.
- Series statement
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Video.
- Call number
- *MGZIDVD 5-309
- Note
- Title from original container.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped in the Ted Shawn Theater, Jacob's Pillow, Becket, Mass., on July 3, 1997.
- Linking entry (note)
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
- Title
- Jacob's Pillow post performance talk with Merce Cunningham [videorecording].
- Imprint
- 1997.
- Country of producing entity
- U.S.
- Series
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
- Performer
- Speaker: Merce Cunningham. Moderator: Suzanne Carbonneau.
- Event
- Videotaped in the Ted Shawn Theater, Jacob's Pillow, Becket, Mass., on July 3, 1997.
- Linking entry
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
- Added author
- Cunningham, Merce. Interviewee
- Carbonneau, Suzanne. Interviewer
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.
- Found in:
- Merce Cunningham archive.
- Research call number
- *MGZIDVD 5-309