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Ocean [and] sequences from Installations [rehearsal]

Title
Ocean [and] sequences from Installations [electronic resource] : [rehearsal] / choreography by Merce Cunningham.
Publication
1998.

Available Online

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Cunningham, Merce
  • Boudreau, Lisa
  • Caley, Thomas
  • Freebury, Jean
  • Gafner, Frédéric
  • Kulick, David
  • Mohr, Matthew D.
  • Ogan, Banu
  • Phillips, Jared
  • Steele, Jeannie
  • Swan, Derry
  • Swinston, Robert
  • Therrien, Cheryl
  • Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Found In
Merce Cunningham archive.
Description
1 streaming video file (105 min.) : sd., col.
Summary
This video features a run-through of Ocean, in rehearsal clothes, without musical accompaniment, followed by a run-through of an excerpt from Installations.
Series Statement
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Uniform Title
  • Ocean (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
  • Installations (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
  • Dance rehearsals.
Note
  • Note on original container: SL [i.e. stage left].
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, June 1998.
Biography (note)
  • Ocean premiered at the Cirque Royal in Brussels on May 18, 1994, with a musical score by David Tudor and Andrew Culver, based on ideas of John Cage. Installation premiered in Seattle on May 2, 1996 with a musical score by Trimpin. Ocean and Installations were both revived by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1998.
Linking Entry (note)
  • Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Contents
Ocean (90 min.) -- Installations [excerpt] (12 min.)
Call Number
*MGZIDF 2953
OCLC
NYPG05-F11116
Title
Ocean [and] sequences from Installations [electronic resource] : [rehearsal] / choreography by Merce Cunningham.
Imprint
1998.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Series
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Performer
Rehearsed by members of Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Lisa Boudreau, Thomas Caley, Jean Freebury, Foofwa d'Imobilité [aka Frédéric Gafner], David Kulick, Matthew Mohr, Banu Ogan, Jared Phillips, Jeannie Steele, Derry Swan, Robert Swinston, Cheryl Therrien, and others.
Event
Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, June 1998.
Biography
Ocean premiered at the Cirque Royal in Brussels on May 18, 1994, with a musical score by David Tudor and Andrew Culver, based on ideas of John Cage. Installation premiered in Seattle on May 2, 1996 with a musical score by Trimpin. Ocean and Installations were both revived by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1998.
Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Local Note
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 right), see *MGZIDVD 5-434.
Former classmark: *MGZIDVD 5-435.
Access
Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Connect to:
NYPL Digital Collections
Added Author
Cunningham, Merce, choreographer.
Boudreau, Lisa, dancer.
Caley, Thomas, dancer.
Freebury, Jean, dancer.
Gafner, Frédéric, dancer.
Kulick, David, dancer.
Mohr, Matthew D., dancer.
Ogan, Banu, dancer.
Phillips, Jared, dancer.
Steele, Jeannie, dancer.
Swan, Derry, dancer.
Swinston, Robert, dancer.
Therrien, Cheryl, dancer.
Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Added Title
Ocean (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Installations (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Found In:
Merce Cunningham archive.
Research Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-435 (former)
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