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Fluid canvas [and] Split sides.

Title: Fluid canvas [and] Split sides. Oct. 17, 2003 [videorecording] / [presented by] Merce Cunningham Dance Company ; choreography by Merce Cunningham.
Publication: 2003.

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Merce Cunningham archive.

Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (63 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

This performance was part of a program celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. The recording begins with Merce Cunningham and company dancers (Ashley Chen, Jonah Bokaer, Jennifer Goggans, Cheryl Therrien) casting dice to determine the order of the evening's program. A complete performance of Fluid canvas is recorded in wide shot, and excerpts from Split sides are recorded in close shot.

Series Statement

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection

Uniform Title

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

Genre/Form

Video.
Dance.

Credits (note)

Fluid canvas. Music by John King. Video design by Marc Downie, Shelley Eshkar, Paul Kaiser. Lighting design by James F. Ingalls.
Split sides. Music by Radiohead and Sigur Ros. Decor by Robert Heishman and Catherine Yass.

Event (note)

Recorded in performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City, on Oct. 17, 2003.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.

Contents

Fluid canvas (33 min.) -- Split sides [excerpts] (30 min.)

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-2058

OCLC

86110250

Title

Fluid canvas [and] Split sides. Oct. 17, 2003 [videorecording] / [presented by] Merce Cunningham Dance Company ; choreography by Merce Cunningham.

Imprint

2003.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection

Credits

Fluid canvas. Music by John King. Video design by Marc Downie, Shelley Eshkar, Paul Kaiser. Lighting design by James F. Ingalls.

Split sides. Music by Radiohead and Sigur Ros. Decor by Robert Heishman and Catherine Yass.

Performer

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

Event

Recorded in performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City, on Oct. 17, 2003.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.

Added Author

Cunningham, Merce, choreographer.

King, John, 1953 November 28- Composer

Downie, Marc. Designer

Eshkar, Shelley. Designer

Kaiser, Paul, 1956- Designer

Ingalls, James F. Lighting designer

Heishman, Robert. Designer

Yass, Catherine, 1963- 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.

Minato, Koji, dancer.

Roberts, Daniel Aguzzoli, dancer.

Squire, Daniel S., dancer.

Steele, Jeannie K., dancer.

Swan, Derry, dancer.

Swinston, Robert, dancer.

Therrien, Cheryl, dancer.

Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Radiohead (Musical group)

Sigur Rós (Musical group)

Added Title

Fluid canvas (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Split sides (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Found In:

Merce Cunningham archive.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-2058

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