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Merce Cunningham a portrait in the first person

Title
Merce Cunningham [videorecording] : a portrait in the first person / produced by Sleeping Giant Productions in association with Bravo! Canada.
Publication
1998.

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Additional Authors
  • Cunningham, Merce
  • Znaimer, Moses
  • Sleeping Giant Productions
  • Bravo! (Television network)
Found In
Merce Cunningham archive.
Description
1 videodisc (NTSC) (57 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Series Statement
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Subject
  • Cunningham, Merce
  • Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  • Originality in art
  • Artistic collaboration
  • Arts > Experimental methods
  • Life Forms (Computer program)
  • Computers > Dance applications
Genre/Form
  • Television.
  • Video.
Note
  • Title and credits from screen.
  • The program includes two-minute gaps, at approximately ten-minute intervals, for commercial breaks. Commercials do not appear on the tape.
Event (note)
  • Broadcast on Bravo! Canada, July, 1998.
Linking Entry (note)
  • Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Contents
Part 1 (28 min.) -- Part 2 (29 min.)
Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-588
OCLC
NYPG05-F10588
Title
Merce Cunningham [videorecording] : a portrait in the first person / produced by Sleeping Giant Productions in association with Bravo! Canada.
Imprint
1998.
Country of Producing Entity
Canada.
Series
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Performer
Host: Moses Znaimer.
Event
Broadcast on Bravo! Canada, July, 1998.
Summary
This program, in the series Originals in art, presents a portrait of Merce Cunningham. Cunningham's comments (excerpted from an interview) are interspersed with archival footage of performances and rehearsals by Cunningham and his company. In part 1 Cunningham discusses the necessity of dance in his life; the beginning of his career, including his dissatisfaction with Martha Graham's style, his collaboration with John Cage, and the development of his technique and ideas about dance; why he started teaching; early tours with his company; how he chooses dancers for his company; his use of chance operations in choreography; Robert Rauschenberg's decor for Story; the independence of music, dance and visual components in his work. In part two, Cunningham discusses his ideas on how to increase awareness of dance in the public; Museum event no. 1 in Vienna; his ideas about stage space; his work with video; his use of Life Forms software; innovation and complexity in his work.
Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Local Subject
Life Forms (Computer program)
Computers -- Dance applications.
Added Author
Cunningham, Merce. Interviewee
Znaimer, Moses. Host
Sleeping Giant Productions.
Bravo! (Television network)
Found In:
Merce Cunningham archive.
Research Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-588
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