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Merce Cunningham's sixty years of dancing Brooklyn Academy of Music tribute to Merce Cunningham.

Title: Merce Cunningham's sixty years of dancing [videorecording] : Brooklyn Academy of Music tribute to Merce Cunningham.
Publication: 1997.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	disc 1	Moving image	Use in library	*MGZIDVD 5-2011 disc 1	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	disc 2	Moving image	Use in library	*MGZIDVD 5-2011 disc 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Merce Cunningham archive.

Description

2 videodiscs (NTSC) (93 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

In this tribute to Merce Cunningham, performances are interspersed with a video collage of archival footage and monologues by Garrison Keillor.

Series Statement

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Music.
Video.

Note

Title from original container.

Credits (note)

Host: Garrison Keillor. Video collage by Elliot Caplan.
Sounddance. Music by David Tudor. Design by Mark Lancaster.

Event (note)

Videotaped at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City, on May 19, 1997.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.

Contents

Introduction / by Twyla Tharp -- For Merce / choreographed and performed by Trisha Brown -- Flash in the pan / choreographed by Mark Morris; performed by Mark Morris, Harvey Lichtenstein and the Mark Morris Dance Group -- Facing north [excerpt] / performed by Meredith Monk and Theo Bleckmann -- Walkaround time [excerpt] / performed by Mikhail Baryshnikov -- Seven minutes, a gift for Merce / performed by Bill Irwin -- Sounddance / performed by Robert Swinston, Jeannie Steele, Foofwa d'Imobilité, Thomas Caley, Michael Cole, Cheryl Therrien, and Jenifer Weaver of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company -- Solo / performed by Merce Cunningham.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-2011

OCLC

NYPG06-F881

Title

Merce Cunningham's sixty years of dancing [videorecording] : Brooklyn Academy of Music tribute to Merce Cunningham.

Imprint

1997.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection

Credits

Host: Garrison Keillor. Video collage by Elliot Caplan.

Sounddance. Music by David Tudor. Design by Mark Lancaster.

Event

Videotaped at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City, on May 19, 1997.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.

Local Subject

Tributes.

Added Author

Keillor, Garrison, host.

Caplan, Elliot. Videographer

Tharp, Twyla. Speaker

Brown, Trisha, 1936-2017, choreographer.

Brown, Trisha, 1936-2017. Performer

Morris, Mark, 1956- choreographer.

Morris, Mark, 1956- Performer

Lichtenstein, Harvey. Performer

Monk, Meredith, composer.

Monk, Meredith, performer.

Bleckmann, Theo. Performer

Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 1948- performer.

Irwin, Bill, 1950- performer.

Cunningham, Merce, choreographer.

Cunningham, Merce, dancer.

Tudor, David, 1926-1996. Composer

Caley, Thomas, dancer.

Cole, Michael Eugene, dancer.

Gafner, Frédéric, dancer.

Steele, Jeannie K., dancer.

Swinston, Robert, dancer.

Therrien, Cheryl, dancer.

Lancaster, Mark. Designer

Mark Morris Dance Group.

Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Cunningham, Merce. Sounddance.

Found In:

Merce Cunningham archive.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-2011

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