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Merce Cunningham Dance Company 50th anniversary season

Title: Merce Cunningham Dance Company [videorecording] : 50th anniversary season / presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Cunningham Dance Foundation ; 2003 Next Wave Festival ; choreography by Merce Cunningham.
Publication: c2003.

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Description

1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Modern dance performance.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Uniform Title

Fluid canvas (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Split sides (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.

Note

Accompanied by house program.

Access (note)

Permission required.

Credits (note)

Costumes, James Hall ; lighting, James F. Ingalls.

Event (note)

Videotaped in performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Howard Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn, N.Y., as part of the 2003 Next Wave Festival, on Oct. 18, 2003; video documentation, Character Generators Inc.; camera, Mark Robison.

System Details (note)

DVD.

Contents

Chance dice roll / presided over by Merce Cunningham. Chance procedure determining design elements (choreography, music, decor, costumes, lighting) for the evening's performance of the second work on the program, Split sides.
Fluid canvas (2002) (New York premiere) (ca. 30 min.) / begins ca. 8 min. into the recording. Music, John King (longtermparking); décor, Marc Downie, Shelley Eshkar, Paul Kaiser (Lifelike); danced by the Company; musician, John King.
Split sides (2003) (world premiere) (ca. 46 min.) / music, Radiohead, Sigur Rós; décor, Robert Heishman, Catherine Yass; danced by the Company; musicians, John King, Takehisa Kosugi, Andy Russ.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-95

OCLC

NYPY05-F10033

Title

Merce Cunningham Dance Company [videorecording] : 50th anniversary season / presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Cunningham Dance Foundation ; 2003 Next Wave Festival ; choreography by Merce Cunningham.

Imprint

c2003.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

System Details

DVD.

Credits

Costumes, James Hall ; lighting, James F. Ingalls.

Performer

Danced by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Cédric Andrieux, Jonah Bokaer, Lisa Boudreau, Ashley Chen, Paige Cunningham, Holley Farmer, Jennifer Goggans, Mandy Kirschner, Koji Mizuta, Daniel Roberts, Daniel Squire, Jeannie Steele, Derry Swan, Robert Swinston, Cheryl Therrien.

Event

Videotaped in performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Howard Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn, N.Y., as part of the 2003 Next Wave Festival, on Oct. 18, 2003; video documentation, Character Generators Inc.; camera, Mark Robison.

Restricted Access

Permission required.

Added Author

Cunningham, Merce, choreographer.

Cunningham, Merce, speaker.

King, John, 1953 November 28- Composer. Instrumentalist

Downie, Marc. Set designer

Eshkar, Shelley. Set designer

Kaiser, Paul, 1956- Set designer

Hall, James. Costume designer

Ingalls, James F., lighting designer.

Heishman, Robert C. Set designer

Yass, Catherine. Set designer

Andrieux, Cédric, dancer.

Bokaer, Jonah, dancer.

Boudreau, Lisa, dancer.

Chen, Ashley, dancer.

Cunningham, Paige, dancer.

Farmer, Holley, dancer.

Goggans, Jennifer, dancer.

Kirschner, Mandy, dancer.

Mizuta, Koji, dancer.

Roberts, Daniel Aguzzoli, dancer.

Squire, Daniel S., dancer.

Steele, Jeannie K., dancer.

Swan, Derry, dancer.

Swinston, Robert, dancer.

Therrien, Cheryl, dancer.

Robison, Mark (Cameraman), videographer.

Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Radiohead (Musical group)

Sigur Rós (Musical group)

Brooklyn Academy of Music. Next Wave Festival.

Character Generators/Video.

Added Title

Fluid canvas (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Split sides (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-95

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