- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 2 streaming video files (97 min) : sound, color
- Summary
- This recording shows the left stage of an Event that took place on two adjacent stages, separated by a doorway. The Warhol Room is shown. Following this Event, DIA Arts Foundation curator Lynne Cooke interviews Merce Cunningham. In the interview, Merce Cunningham discusses the origin of his Events, the first Event performance in Vienna and the audience's reaction to that performance. He goes on to discuss some of the more unconventional performance spaces in which his Events took place throughout the years, how he structures the Events and his use of chance operations, among other topics. The interview is followed by questions from the audience.
- Uniform Title
- Event (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Moving image materials.
- Subjects
- 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.
- Note on original container: "Left room".
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming video files only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
- System Details (note)
- Source (note)
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Contents
- Opening announcements from Trevor Carlson (3 min.) -- Event performance (40 min.) -- post-performance discussion [part 1] (50 min.) -- post-performance discussion [part 2] (3 min.)
- Call Number
- *MGZIDF 3664
- OCLC
- 897053957
- Title
Beacon event : performance and post-performance discussion, 2008-01-12 / choreography by Merce Cunningham.
- Production
2008.
- 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.
- Event
Recorded 2008 January 12 The Warhol Room, DIA: Beacon Riggio Galleries, Beacon, New York.
- System Details
Streaming video.
- Original Version
Original format: 2 videocassettes (MiniDV).
- Access
Patrons can access streaming video files 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.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Cunningham, Merce, choreographer.
Cunningham, Merce, interviewee.
Cooke, Lynne, interviewer.
Carlson, Trevor, speaker.
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 3664