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Arcade [excerpt] [rehearsal]
- Title
- Arcade [excerpt] [electronic resource] : [rehearsal] / choreography by Merce Cunningham.
- Publication
- 1985.
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- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham archive.
- Description
- 1 streaming video file (72 min.) : sd., col.
- Summary
- This video features an incomplete studio run-through of Arcade (16 min.), in rehearsal clothes, without musical accompaniment. The remainder of the video features run-throughs of Shards and Fabrications recorded in 1987.
- Series Statement
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
- Uniform Title
- Arcade (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Genre/Form
- Dance.
- Video.
- Dance rehearsals.
- Note
- Note on original container: stage right.
- With (note)
- On reel with: Shards [and] Fabrications, rehearsals (55 min.) See *MGZIDVD 5-968.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, Aug. 16, 1985.
- Biography (note)
- Arcade was commissioned by the Pennsylvania Ballet and premiered Sept. 1985 at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia; Arcade was first performed by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in November, 1985 at the University of Pennsylvania. Arcade had a musical score by John Cage.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
- Call Number
- *MGZIDF 1989
- OCLC
- NYPG05-F10921
- Title
- Arcade [excerpt] [electronic resource] : [rehearsal] / choreography by Merce Cunningham.
- Imprint
- 1985.
- Country of Producing Entity
- U.S.
- Series
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
- With:
- On reel with: Shards [and] Fabrications, rehearsals (55 min.) See *MGZIDVD 5-968.
- Performer
- Rehearsed by members of Merce Cunningham Dance Company, including Helen Barrow, Catherine Kerr, Patricia Lent, Karen Radford, Rob Remley, Kristy Santimyer, Robert Swinston, Megan Walker, Susan Quinn Young and others.
- Event
- Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, Aug. 16, 1985.
- Biography
- Arcade was commissioned by the Pennsylvania Ballet and premiered Sept. 1985 at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia; Arcade was first performed by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in November, 1985 at the University of Pennsylvania. Arcade had a musical score by John Cage.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
- Local Note
- Former classmark: *MGZIDVD 5-968.The rehearsal is filmed from an angle that does not show the entire studio. For another recording of the same rehearsal filmed from a different angle (stage left) see *MGZIDF 1990.
- Access
- Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.
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- Added Author
- Cunningham, Merce, choreographer.Barrow, Helen, dancer.Kerr, Catherine, dancer.Lent, Patricia, dancer.Radford, Karen, 1957- dancer.Remley, Rob, dancer.Santimyer, Kristy, dancer.Swinston, Robert, dancer.Walker, Megan, dancer.Quinn, Susan, dancer.Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
- Added Title
- Arcade (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Found In:
- Merce Cunningham archive.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIDVD 5-968 (former)