Research Catalog

Title

The dancer and the dance / Merce Cunningham in conversation with Jacqueline Lesschaeve.

Author

Cunningham, Merce

Publication

New York : M. Boyars : Distributed by the Scribner Book Companies, 1985.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Lesschaeve, Jacqueline.
• John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection) the

Description

238 p., [12] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Cunningham, Merce
• Modern dance
• Dancers > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Updated english version of: Merce Cunningham, le danseur et la dance.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Filmography: p. 217-222.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Dance is like water -- From Seattle to New York -- Black Mountain. Birth of the company -- The class -- Solos -- The dances I -- Choreographic moments -- The dances II -- Energy and positions. Clarity of the dances -- Landscapes: 20th century dancing -- Westbeth -- Dance and power -- Stages. Audiences. Events -- At the Paris Opera: Un jour ou deux -- From notation to video -- Locale. Chronological list of Merce Cunningham's choreographies -- Films and videos -- List of dancers -- A brief summary of Merce Cunningham's career.

ISBN

0714528099 :

LCCN

^^^83025721^

OCLC

• 10275754
• SCSB-12651774

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library