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Grand Central dances : Merce Cunningham segment

Title: Grand Central dances : Merce Cunningham segment, 1987 / choreography by Merce Cunningham.
Publication: 1987.

Available Online

NYPL Digital Collections

Details

Additional Authors

Found In

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Description

1 streaming video file (18 min) : sound, color

Summary

This is footage from a segment of a documentary on Grand Central Dances. See *MGZIC 9-3494 for full documentary.

Uniform Title

Event (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Alternative Title

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Moving image materials.

Genre/Form

Dance.
Music.
Video.
Filmed dance.
Filmed performances.

Note

Title, statement of responsibility and credits taken from documents provided by Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation.
Event starts 7 min. into video. The Event is preceded by footage of unidentified street performers in Washington Square Park, NYC.
Original container and corresponding digital file are misdated 7/23/1988. Other documentation suggests this Event took place on 10/9 or 10/10 of 1987.
Perhaps 7/23/1988 refers to Washington Square Park footage?

Access (note)

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

Credits (note)

Music composed by John Cage and performed by Takehisa Kosugi, Michael Pugliese and David Tudor; lighting design by Gary Mintz.

System Details (note)

Streaming video.

Source (note)

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Contents

Street performers at Washington Square Park (7 min.) -- Grand Central Event (11 min.)

Call Number

*MGZIDF 3581

OCLC

892928294

Title

Grand Central dances : Merce Cunningham segment, 1987 / choreography by Merce Cunningham.

Production

1987.

Country of Producing Entity

United States.

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, Merce Cunningham, Victoria Finlayson, Alan Good, Catherine Kerr, Chris Komar, David Kulick, Patricia Lent, Larissa McGoldrick, Dennis O'Connor, Karen Radford, Rob Remley, Kristy Santimyer, Robert Swinston, Carol Teitelbaum.

Credits

Music composed by John Cage and performed by Takehisa Kosugi, Michael Pugliese and David Tudor; lighting design by Gary Mintz.

Event

Recorded 1987 Grand Central Terminal, New York, NY.

System Details

Streaming video.

Original Version

Original format: 1 videocassette (Betacam) ; 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, dancer.

Barrow, Helen, dancer.

Finlayson, Victoria, dancer.

Good, Alan, dancer.

Kerr, Catherine, dancer.

Komar, Chris, dancer.

Kulick, David, dancer.

Lent, Patricia, dancer.

McGoldrick, Larissa, dancer.

O'Connor, Dennis, dancer.

Radford, Karen, 1957- dancer.

Remley, Rob, dancer.

Santimyer, Kristy, dancer.

Swinston, Robert, dancer.

Teitelbaum, Carol, dancer.

Cage, John, composer.

Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938- instrumentalist.

Pugliese, Michael, instrumentalist.

Tudor, David, 1926-1996, instrumentalist.

Mintz, Gary, lighting designer.

Merce Cunningham Dance Company, dancer.

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation donor.

Added Title

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

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Moving image materials.

Found In:

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 3581

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