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Pictures [and] Cunningham documentary

Title: Pictures [and] Cunningham documentary, 1990-9-26 / choreography by Merce Cunningham.
Publication: 1990.

Available Online

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Details

Additional Authors

Found In

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Description

1 streaming video file (16 min) : sound, color

Summary

The performance of Pictures is followed by an interview with Merce Cunningham. In the interview, he discusses topics such as his first trip to Paris and the program he presented that summer. He goes on to recount some anomalies from his next Paris performance, some years after the first. He closes with a few thoughts on the state of dance in Paris.

Uniform Title

Pictures (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Alternative Title

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Moving image materials.

Genre/Form

Dance.
Music.
Video.
Filmed dance.
Filmed performances.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.

Note

Title, statement of responsibility and credits taken from documents provided by Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation.
Interview date unknown.

Access (note)

Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Credits (note)

Music (Interspecies Smalltalk) written by David Behrman and performed by Takehisa Kosugi and Michael Pugliese; set, costume and lighting design by Mark Lancaster.

System Details (note)

Streaming video.

Source (note)

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Contents

Pictures (12 min.) -- Interview (4 min.)

Call Number

*MGZIDF 3582

OCLC

892927580

Title

Pictures [and] Cunningham documentary, 1990-9-26 / choreography by Merce Cunningham.

Production

1990.

Country of Producing Entity

France.

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Performer

Performed by members of Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Helen Barrow, Kimberly Bartosik, Merce Cunningham, Emma Diamond, Victoria Finlayson, Alan Good, Chris Komar, David Kulick, Patricia Lent, Larissa McGoldrick, Randall Sanderson, Robert Swinston, Carol Teitelbaum, Jenifer Weaver, Robert Wood.

Credits

Music (Interspecies Smalltalk) written by David Behrman and performed by Takehisa Kosugi and Michael Pugliese; set, costume and lighting design by Mark Lancaster.

Event

Recorded 1990 September 26 Theatre de la Ville, Paris, France.

System Details

Streaming video.

Original Version

Original format: 1 videocassette (Betacam SP) ; 1/2 in.

Access

Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Source

Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.

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Added Author

Cunningham, Merce, choreographer.

Cunningham, Merce, interviewee.

Barrow, Helen, dancer.

Bartosik, Kimberly, dancer.

Diamond, Emma, dancer.

Finlayson, Victoria, dancer.

Good, Alan, dancer.

Komar, Chris, dancer.

Kulick, David, dancer.

Lent, Patricia, dancer.

McGoldrick, Larissa, dancer.

Sanderson, Randall, dancer.

Swinston, Robert, dancer.

Teitelbaum, Carol, dancer.

Weaver, Jenifer, dancer.

Wood, Robert, dancer.

Behrman, David, composer.

Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938- instrumentalist.

Pugliese, Michael, instrumentalist.

Lancaster, Mark, 1938- designer.

Lancaster, Mark, 1938- costume designer.

Lancaster, Mark, 1938- lighting designer.

Merce Cunningham Dance Company, dancer.

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation donor.

Added Title

Container of (work): Pictures (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Moving image materials.

Found In:

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 3582

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