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Points in space

Title
Points in space / Merce Cunningham Dance Company ; choreography, Merce Cunningham ; music, John Cage ; a BBC Television production in association with the Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc. ; producer, Bob Lockyer ; directors, Elliot Caplan, Merce Cunningham.
Publication
Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, [1986]

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Additional Authors
  • Lockyer, Bob.
  • Caplan, Elliot.
  • Cunningham, Merce.
  • Cage, John.
  • Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
  • British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.
  • Cunningham Dance Foundation.
  • Kultur International Films.
Description
1 videocassette (55 min.) : sound (stereo), color; 1/2 in.
Summary
The 1st half of the BBC's documentary follows the independent preparations of Merce Cunningham's choreography for Points in space, and John Cage's text-sound, computer-music composition, Voiceless essay, or, Writings through the essay "On the duty of civil disobedience," for a TV studio production; the second half presents the combination of choreography and music in the final TV production
Series Statement
Dance series
Uniform Title
  • Points in space (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
  • Dance series (Kultur International Films)
Subject
  • Cage, John
  • Cunningham, Merce
  • Cunningham, Merce
  • Merce Cunningham Dance Company
  • Merce Cunningham Dance Company
  • Points in space (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
  • Writings through the essay "On the duty of civil disobedience" (Cage, John)
  • Modern dance
  • Computer music
  • Text-sound compositions
  • Sound poetry
  • sound poetry
  • Sound poetry
  • Computer music
  • Modern dance
  • Text-sound compositions
  • Choreografie
  • Ballet
Genre/Form
  • Videocassettes.
  • Dance television programs
  • Cultural television programs
  • Nonfiction television programs
  • Televised performances
  • Dance television programs.
  • Cultural television programs.
  • Televised performances.
  • Nonfiction television programs.
  • Dance.
  • Émissions culturelles télévisées.
  • Spectacles télévisés.
  • Émissions télévisées autres que de fiction.
Note
  • Originally broadcast on television in 1986.
Credits (note)
  • Film camera, Ian Kennedy ; film editor, Guy Grossman ; videotape editor, Dennis Collett.
System Details (note)
  • VHS, NTSC; hi-fi stereo.
Contents
Interviews with Cunningham -- Points in space.
ISBN
  • 9781561272457
  • 1561272450
OCLC
  • ocm42477775
  • 42477775
  • SCSB-738195
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library