Research Catalog

Title

Black Mountain College and Merce Cunningham in the fifties: New perspectives [electronic resource]

Publication

1993.

Details

Additional Authors

• Jowitt, Deborah
• Rudner, Sara
• Cernovich, Nicola.
• Farber, Viola.
• Russell Sage College.
• Dance Critics Association (U.S.)
• Black Mountain College and Merce Cunningham in the fifties: New perspectives (1993 : Russell Sage College)

Description

1 streaming video file (67 min.) : sd. color NTSC.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Jane Roberts.

Subjects

• Cunningham, Merce > Influence
• Avant-garde dance
• Chance composition in dance
• Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)
• Television > Black Mountain College and Merce Cunningham in the fifties: New perspectives

Note

• Part of an eight-cassette documentation of a symposium held at Russell Sage College, Troy, New York, from October 9-10, 1993. Sponsored by Russell Sage College and the Dance Critics Association. This cassette was recorded on October 9, 1993.

Access (note)

• Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Contents

CONTENTS: Dance by chance. Introduction by Deborah Jowitt. Dancer/choreographer Sara Rudner performs a solo created especially for the symposium, the first of her works to employ chance procedures. She dances the solo in full before and after a discussion that includes her description of the chance procedures she used, and questions and comments from Jowitt and audience members, among them Viola Farber and Nikola Cernovitch. The discussion also covers Merce Cunningham's use of chance procedures. A question-and-answer period concludes the session.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 5386

OCLC

NYPY946050806-F

Title

Black Mountain College and Merce Cunningham in the fifties: New perspectives [electronic resource]

Imprint

1993.

Restricted Access

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

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZIA 4-1727 cassette 3.

Additional Copy: None.

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Local Subject

Chance composition in dance.

Avant-garde dance.

Television. Black Mountain College and Merce Cunningham in the fifties: New perspectives.

Added Author

Jowitt, Deborah, commentator.

Rudner, Sara, choreographer, dancer. Commentator

Cernovich, Nicola. Commentator

Farber, Viola. Commentator

Russell Sage College.

Dance Critics Association (U.S.)

Black Mountain College and Merce Cunningham in the fifties: New perspectives (1993 : Russell Sage College)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 5386

*MGZIA 4-1727 cassette 3 (former)