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DanceNY. Cage/Cunningham

Title: DanceNY. Cage/Cunningham [videorecording] / WNYE ; Dance Magazine ; 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: Brooklyn, N.Y. : WNYE, 2003.

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (104 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.

Summary

Telecast of a 1991 documentary, with additional introduction, interview with Robert Swinston of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and preview of coming dance events by Wendy Perron. 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 Wendy Perron, Dance Magazine.

Series Statement

DanceNY

Uniform Title

Dance Magazine.

Alternative Title

Dance New York. Cage/Cunningham
Cage/Cunningham

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Music.
Video.

Note

Tape contains ca. 43 min. of repeated footage, beginning at ca. 92 min. (during the end credits). The program resumes at ca. 140 min. into the tape and continues till the end of the documentary, which is followed by the interview with Robert Swinston and Wendy Perron's preview.
Logo of WNYE appears on screen.
For a commercially released version of this recording, without the additional introduction, interview, and afterword, see: *MGZIA 4-3045 Cage/Cunningham.

Credits (note)

Credits for telecast: executive producer, Barbara Paige Kaplan ; script writer and commentator, Wendy Perron.

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.
Host of telecast: Susan Jaffe.
Interviewee on telecast: Robert Swinston.
Commentator on telecast: Wendy Perron.

Event (note)

Telecast by WNYE, Brooklyn, N.Y., on the series DanceNY, on Jan. 9, 2003.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-7593

OCLC

NYPY04-F293

Title

DanceNY. Cage/Cunningham [videorecording] / WNYE ; Dance Magazine ; 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

Brooklyn, N.Y. : WNYE, 2003.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

DanceNY

Event

Telecast by WNYE, Brooklyn, N.Y., on the series DanceNY, on Jan. 9, 2003.

Credits

Credits for telecast: executive producer, Barbara Paige Kaplan ; script writer and commentator, Wendy Perron.

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.

Also appearing on camera: Edwin Denby.

Host of telecast: Susan Jaffe.

Interviewee on telecast: Robert Swinston.

Commentator on telecast: Wendy Perron.

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

Dennison, Doris. Interviewee

Tudor, David, 1926-1996. Interviewee

Johns, Jasper, 1930- Interviewee

Stella, Frank. Interviewee

Kremen, Irwin. Interviewee

Bird, Bonnie. Interviewee

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Interviewee

Preger-Simon, Marianne, 1929- Interviewee

Charlip, Remy. Interviewee

Denby, Edwin, 1903-1983. Depicted

Caplan, Elliot. Director. Producer

Vaughan, David, 1924- Author

Jaffe, Susan. Host

Swinston, Robert. Interviewee

Kaplan, Barbara Paige. Producer

Perron, Wendy. Author. Commentator

Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Cunningham Dance Foundation.

SEPT (Television station : France)

Kultur International Films.

WNYE (Television station : Brooklyn, N.Y.)

Added Title

Dance Magazine.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-7593

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