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Event no. 123

Title: Event no. 123, 1975-03-05 / choreography by Merce Cunningham.
Publication: 1975.

Available Online

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Details

Additional Authors

Found In

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Description

1 streaming video file (33 min) : sound, black & white

Summary

This Event includes material from Signals, Changing steps, Sounddance, Westbeth and TV rerun.

Alternative Title

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Moving image materials.

Genre/Form

Dance.
Music.
Video.
Filmed dance.
Filmed performances.

Note

Title, statement of responsibility and credits taken from house program available in *MGZMD 196.
Title on original container: "Williams College Event #2."
Time code visible in bottom right of picture.

Access (note)

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

Credits (note)

Musical accompaniment by John Cage, David Tudor and David Behrman.

System Details (note)

Streaming video.

Source (note)

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Contents

Signals stick trio (in progress): MC, EC, CM -- Signals septet (partial): MC, EC, CM, CK, SHC, MH / Changing steps floor duet (in part): BM, KA -- Signals septet (last section of eights through to end) -- Changing steps leg duet (in progress): CM, SHC / Changing steps pull out (in progress): RK, CAK -- MC solo -- Changing steps quartet (partial): CAK, RK, MH, CK -- Sounddance (middle section quartet): EC, CM, BM, RK / Sounddance (slow septet): SHC, MH / Sounddance (cut to seaweed quartet): BM, EC, JRS, CAK -- MC solo -- Westbeth (solo): MH / Westbeth (duet): MH, CM / Westbeth (end of duet): CK, KA / Four couples exit -- TV rerun: Entire Company (Contents taken from handwritten note enclosed in original container.)

Call Number

*MGZIDF 1939

OCLC

881822652

Title

Event no. 123, 1975-03-05 / choreography by Merce Cunningham.

Production

1975.

Country of Producing Entity

United States.

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Performer

Performed by members of Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Karen Attix, Ellen Cornfield, Merce Cunningham, Meg Harper, Susana Hayman-Chaffey, Cathy Kerr, Chris Komar, Robert Kovich, Brynar Mehl, Charlie Moulton and Julie Roess-Smith.

Credits

Musical accompaniment by John Cage, David Tudor and David Behrman.

Event

Recorded 1975 March 5 Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

System Details

Streaming video.

Original Version

Original format: 1 open reel videotape ; 1/2 in.

Restricted Access

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

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Source

Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.

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Added Author

Cunningham, Merce, choreographer.

Cunningham, Merce, dancer.

Cage, John, instrumentalist.

Tudor, David, 1926-1996, instrumentalist.

Behrman, David, instrumentalist.

Attix, Karen, dancer.

Cornfield, Ellen, dancer.

Harper, Meg, dancer.

Hayman-Chaffey, Susana, dancer.

Kerr, Cathy, dancer.

Komar, Chris, dancer.

Kovich, Robert, dancer.

Mehl, Brynar, dancer.

Moulton, Charles, 1954- dancer.

Roess-Smith, Julie, dancer.

Merce Cunningham Dance Company, dancer.

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.

Container of (work): Cunningham, Merce. Sounddance. Selections.

Container of (work): Cunningham, Merce. Westbeth.. Selections.

Container of (work): Cunningham, Merce. Signals. Selections.

Container of (work): Cunningham, Merce. Event.

Container of (work): Cunningham, Merce. TV rerun. Selections.

Container of (work): Cunningham, Merce. Changing steps. Selections.

Added Title

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Moving image materials.

Found In:

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 1939

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