- Additional Authors
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (20 minutes) : digital, mono
- Summary
- Merce Cunningham speaks in short statements about various topics, followed by short silent pauses: a brief example of his choreographic choices when he starts a new piece; [a] Tuesday rehearsal of Summerspace and the difficulty of dancers' execution of certain movements, especially running; his [Merce Cunningham Dance] Company's assessment of the various conditions of performance spaces while touring, including the set-up of the pianos; briefly, his choreographic philosophies; his response to a recent Rockefeller report on the financial state of dance; brief observation of [a] Thursday rehearsal and precision in dance; the audience response to his Company's performance in Chandigarh, [Punjab]; his reply to students that seek to study dance technique with him; a brief anecdote about a conversation that Cunningham had at a party; his composition class, from the previous summer, and their use of chance methods; [recording break]; his Company's residency at Connecticut College in the summer of 1958, including teaching classes and rehearsing his Antic Meet, and Summerspace; his intentions behind the title and some of the movements for Summerspace; more on rehearsing Summerspace during the residency including the choreographic structures and chance methods that he devised to make use of the ballroom rehearsal space; his numbering system for the movements in Summerspace; his attention to individual dancers' pathways in Summerspace and the experience of assembling the dancers in the piece; the premiere of Summerspace and his perception of the audience response.
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Lectures.
- Note
- This recording seems to be a rehearsal of a lecture by Merce Cunningham about his choreography, to be given at an unspecified date and location.
- Title, location and date provided by cataloger based on audition and handwritten note on the original container.
- Handwritten note on original container: "L/Dem ; Stockholm ; October 1966".
- An earlier version of this lecture was recorded in April 1966, on a separate recording with the classmark *LT-7-A 2350, and is available for separate streaming at http://link.nypl.org/TKeXiPguRTqfW1LZxK6lbAO.
- Sound quality is good.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Source (note)
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Call Number
- *LT-7-A 2360
- OCLC
- 880587452
- Author
Cunningham, Merce, speaker.
- Title
Merce Cunningham speaks about his choreography.
- Production
October, 1966.
- Playing Time
001953
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiotape reel
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden, 1966 October.
- Original Version
Archival original: (1 audiotape reel (22 minutes) : analog, half track, mono ; 5 in.) in *LT-7-A 2360.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Local Note
Transferred from original open tape reel by the New York Public Library's Audio and Moving Image Preservation (PAMI) sound engineering staff at the Library for the Performing Arts on January 17, 2014. To create the streaming file, the sound engineers edited out the recording silences at in the preservation file, thus the discrepancies in length between the preservation file and the streaming file.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LT-7-A 2360