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Closing day performances Event [and] Sonatas and interludes.

Title
Closing day performances [videorecording] : Event [and] Sonatas and interludes.
Publication
c2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Cunningham, Merce
  • Cage, John.
  • Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938-2018.
  • Tudor, David, 1926-1996.
  • Hinrichs, John
  • Crossman, Dylan
  • Scott, Jamie (Dancer)
  • Toogood, Melissa
  • Tilles, Nurit.
  • Ward, Penny
  • Bernadi, François
  • Cunningham, Merce.
  • Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group.
  • New York Public Library. Dance Division.
  • New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Description
1 videodisc (NTSC) (101 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Alternative Title
  • Event
  • Sonatas and interludes
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
Note
  • Recording made possible by the cooperation of Cunningham Dance Foundation, John Cage Trust, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Dance Division.
  • The performances were presented in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition, Invention : Merce Cunningham & collaborators, presented from June 19 through Oct. 13, 2007 at the Donald and Mary Oenslager Gallery, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center.
  • This Cunningham Event was created for the plaza lobby of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
  • Nurit Tilles (pianist for Sonatas and interludes) discusses how John Cage created the prepared piano and allows audience members to play the prepared piano.
Credits (note)
  • Videographer, Penny Ward ; editor, François Bernadi.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped in performance at the plaza lobby, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, on Oct. 2, 2007.
Funding (note)
  • The exhibition was made possible, in part, through the generous support of Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro.
  • Additional support was provided by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and the John Cage Trust.
  • The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts gratefully acknowledges the leadership support of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman.
  • Additional support for exhibitions was provided by Judy R. and Alfred A. Rosenberg, Miriam and Harold Steinberg Foundation.
  • The Dance Division gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Jerome Robbins Foundation.
System Details (note)
  • DVD.
Contents
  • Event [rehearsal] (ca. 2 min.) -- Event [performance with closing remarks by Jacqueline Z. Davis] (ca. 12 min.) / choreography, Merce Cunningham ; music, Takehisa Kosugi, David Tudor ; performed by the Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group.
  • Sonatas and interludes (complete) [performance] (ca. 83 min.) / introduction by Jacqueline Z. Davis and Nurit Tilles ; music, John Cage ; performed on the prepared piano by Nurit Tilles.
Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-3606
OCLC
213888691
Title
Closing day performances [videorecording] : Event [and] Sonatas and interludes.
Imprint
c2007.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
System Details
DVD.
Event
Videotaped in performance at the plaza lobby, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, on Oct. 2, 2007.
Credits
Videographer, Penny Ward ; editor, François Bernadi.
Performer
Event danced by Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group: Dylan Crossman, John Hinrichs, Jamie Scott, Melissa Toogood.
Sonatas and interludes (complete) performed by pianist Nurit Tilles.
Funding
The exhibition was made possible, in part, through the generous support of Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro.
Additional support was provided by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and the John Cage Trust.
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts gratefully acknowledges the leadership support of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman.
Additional support for exhibitions was provided by Judy R. and Alfred A. Rosenberg, Miriam and Harold Steinberg Foundation.
The Dance Division gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Jerome Robbins Foundation.
Added Author
Cunningham, Merce, choreographer.
Cage, John. Sonatas and interludes, piano. Selections.
Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938-2018. Composer
Tudor, David, 1926-1996. Composer
Hinrichs, John, dancer.
Crossman, Dylan, dancer.
Scott, Jamie (Dancer), dancer.
Toogood, Melissa, dancer.
Tilles, Nurit. Instrumentalist
Ward, Penny, videographer.
Bernadi, François, editor of moving image work.
Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group.
New York Public Library. Dance Division.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Cunningham, Merce. Event.
Research Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-3606
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