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Cage/Cunningham

Title: Cage/Cunningham [electronic resource] / produced by the Cunningham Dance Foundation in association with La Sept ; directed and edited by Elliot Caplan ; choreography by Merce Cunningham ; music by John Cage and others ; written by David Vaughan.
Publication: West Long Branch, N.J. : Kultur, c1991.

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Description

1 streaming video file (95 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences

Summary

Documentary on composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham at work and at leisure, filmed over an eight-year period and supplemented by archival footage spanning their fifty-year collaboration. In interviews captured at different times and places, Cage, Cunningham, and performers, composers, artists, and other associates discuss aspects of their professional and personal interactions. Dance and music excerpts, recorded in performance and rehearsal, demonstrate the richness and variety of their productions. Full information on these excerpts appears at the end of the program.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Marilyn Dean Schwalm, additional copy.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Music.
Video.

Access (note)

Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Performer (note)

Interviewees: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg, Viola Farber, Carolyn Brown, Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, La Monte Young, Gordon Mumma, Rudolf Nureyev, M.C. Richards, Michel Guy, Doris Dennison, David Tudor, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Irwin Kremen, Bonnie Bird, Virgil Thomson, Marianne Preger Simon, Remy Charlip.
Also appearing on camera: Edwin Denby.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 3755

ISBN

1561274011

OCLC

51764739
NYPY98-F2982

Title

Cage/Cunningham [electronic resource] / produced by the Cunningham Dance Foundation in association with La Sept ; directed and edited by Elliot Caplan ; choreography by Merce Cunningham ; music by John Cage and others ; written by David Vaughan.

Imprint

West Long Branch, N.J. : Kultur, c1991.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Performer

Interviewees: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg, Viola Farber, Carolyn Brown, Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, La Monte Young, Gordon Mumma, Rudolf Nureyev, M.C. Richards, Michel Guy, Doris Dennison, David Tudor, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Irwin Kremen, Bonnie Bird, Virgil Thomson, Marianne Preger Simon, Remy Charlip.

Performer

Also appearing on camera: Edwin Denby.

Local Note

Former classmarks: *MGZIDVD 5-2142 / *MGZIA 4-3045.

Access

Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

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Added Author

Cage, John. Interviewee. Composer. Performer

Cunningham, Merce, choreographer.

Cunningham, Merce, dancer.

Cunningham, Merce, interviewee.

Paik, Nam June, 1932-2006. Interviewee

Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008. Interviewee

Farber, Viola. ive, dancer.

Brown, Carolyn, 1927- ive, dancer.

Lucier, Alvin. Interviewee

Wolff, Christian, 1934- Interviewee

Young, La Monte. Interviewee

Mumma, Gordon, 1935- Interviewee

Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993. Interviewee

Richards, Mary Caroline. Interviewee

Guy, Michel. Interviewee

Tudor, David, 1926-1996. Interviewee

Johns, Jasper, 1930- Interviewee

Stella, Frank. Interviewee

Bird, Bonnie. Interviewee

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Interviewee

Preger-Simon, Marianne, 1929- Interviewee

Charlip, Remy. Interviewee

Caplan, Elliot. Director

Vaughan, David, 1924- Author

Dennison, Doris. Interviewee

Kremen, Irwin. Interviewee

Denby, Edwin, 1903-1983. Depicted

Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Cunningham Dance Foundation.

SEPT (Television station : France)

Kultur International Films.

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 3755

*MGZIA 4-3045 (former)

*MGZIDVD 5-2142 (former)

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