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Shards [and] Fabrications [rehearsals]
- Title
- Shards [and] Fabrications [videorecording] : [rehearsals] / choreography by Merce Cunningham.
- Publication
- 1987.
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- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham archive.
- Description
- 1 videodisc (NTSC) (55 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- This disc contains studio run-throughs of Shards and Fabrications, in rehearsal clothes, without musical accompaniment. The first 16 min. of the tape contains a partial run-through of Arcade recorded in 1985.
- Series Statement
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
- Uniform Title
- Shards (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Fabrications (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Genre/Form
- Dance.
- Video.
- Dance rehearsals.
- Note
- Note on original container: stage right.
- With (note)
- On disc with: Arcade [excerpt], rehearsal (16 min.) Total time: 71 min.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, Feb. 26, 1987.
- Biography (note)
- Shards premiered in Mar. 1987, with a musical score by David Tudor. Fabrications was commissioned by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and premiered there on Feb. 21, 1987, with a musical score by Emanuek Dimas de Melo Pimenta.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
- Contents
- Shards / rehearsed by Alan Good, Catherine Kerr, David Kulick, Patricia Lent, Rob Remley, Kristy Santimyer, Victoria Finlayson and others (26 min.) -- Fabrications / rehearsed by Helen Barrow, Merce Cunningham, Victoria Finlayson, Alan Good, Catherine Kerr, David Komar, David Kulick, Patricia Lent, Karen Radford, Rob Remley, Kristy Santimyer, Robert Swinston, Susan Quinn Young and others (29 min.)
- Call Number
- *MGZIDVD 5-968
- OCLC
- NYPG05-F10923
- Title
- Shards [and] Fabrications [videorecording] : [rehearsals] / choreography by Merce Cunningham.
- Imprint
- 1987.
- Country of Producing Entity
- U.S.
- Series
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
- With:
- On disc with: Arcade [excerpt], rehearsal (16 min.) Total time: 71 min.
- Performer
- Rehearsed by members of Merce Cunningham Dance Company, including Helen Barrow, Merce Cunningham, Victoria Finlayson, Alan Good, Catherine Kerr, David Komar, David Kulick, Patricia Lent, Karen Radford, Rob Remley, Kristy Santimyer, Robert Swinston, Susan Quinn Young and others.
- Event
- Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, Feb. 26, 1987.
- Biography
- Shards premiered in Mar. 1987, with a musical score by David Tudor. Fabrications was commissioned by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and premiered there on Feb. 21, 1987, with a musical score by Emanuek Dimas de Melo Pimenta.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
- Local Note
- The run-throughs are filmed from an angle that does not show the entire studio. For another recording of the same rehearsal, black-and-white and silent, filmed from a different angle (stage left) see *MGZIDVD 5-969.
- Added Author
- Cunningham, Merce, choreographer, dancer.Barrow, Helen, dancer.Finlayson, Victoria, dancer.Good, Alan, dancer.Kerr, Catherine, dancer.Komar, Chris, dancer.Kulick, David, dancer.Lent, Patricia, dancer.Radford, Karen, 1957- dancer.Remley, Rob, dancer.Santimyer, Kristy, dancer.Swinston, Robert, dancer.Quinn, Susan, dancer.Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
- Added Title
- Shards (Choreographic work : Cunningham)Fabrications (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Found In:
- Merce Cunningham archive.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIDVD 5-968