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Merce Cunningham Dance Company and Post-Show Talk: Two-Camera Mix, Part 1, 2009-07-23

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Merce Cunningham Dance Company and Post-Show Talk

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Title
Merce Cunningham Dance Company and Post-Show Talk: Two-Camera Mix, Part 1, 2009-07-23
Additional title: EyeSpace (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Additional title: CRWDSPCR (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Names
Cunningham, Merce (Creator)
Cunningham, Merce (Choreographer)
Baff, Ella (Speaker)
Collwes, Brandon (Dancer)
Crossman, Dylan (Dancer)
Cunningham, Julie Dawn (Dancer)
Desjardins, Emma (Dancer)
Goggans, Jennifer (Dancer)
Madoff, Daniel (Dancer)
Mitchell, Rashaun (Dancer)
Munnerlyn, Marcie (Dancer)
Riener, Silas (Dancer)
Scott, Jamie (Dancer)
Swinston, Robert (Dancer)
Toogood, Melissa (Dancer)
Weber, Andrea Michelle, 1975- (Dancer)
Ibrahim, Sarah (Musician)
Moore, Stephan (Musician)
King, John, 1953 November 28- (Composer)
Lancaster, Mark, 1938- (Designer)
Samelson, Henry (Artist)
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Merce Cunningham Video Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 2009-07-23
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 3705
Topics
Modern dance
Genres
Filmed performances
Filmed dance
Notes
Statement of responsibility: Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Archives
Content: This is the first part of the evening's event only. It does not include the performance of Sounddance or the post-performance talk.
Content: Title provided by cataloger, based on original container label; statement of responsibility and credits taken from documents provided by Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation.
Creation/production credits: Merce Cunningham, choreographer; John Cage, founding music director; Takehisa Kosugi, music director; Robert Swinston, assistant to the choreographer; Trevor Carlson, executive director; Lynn Wichern, chief financial officer; Tambra Dillon, director of institutional advancement; Davison Scandrett, director of production; Geoffrey Finger, company manager; Stephan Moore, sound engineer and music coordinator; Christine Shallenberg, lighting director; Anna Finke, wardrobe supervisor; Kevin Taylor, director of special projects; David Vaughan, archivist. For CRWDSPCR: John King, music; Mark Lancaster, decor, costumes and lighting; Jeannie Steele and Robert Swinston, restaging. For eyeSpace: Mikel Rouse, International Cloud Atlas, music; Henry Samelson, costumes; Henry Samelson, decor (based on his work Blues Arrive Not Anticipating What Transpires Even Between Themselves); Josh Johnson, lighting; David Quinn, costume construction; Carmela Vassor-Johnson, Melissa Allard, Kristi Faulkner, production crew.
Venue: Recorded 2009, 23 July. The Berkshires, Massachusetts.
Acquisition: Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
Physical Description
Videodisc
Extent: 1 videodisc (DVD) (57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This is the first part only of an evening's performance and post-performance talk by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Following a brief introduction by Jacob's Pillow executive director Ella Baff, the company performs the pieces CRWDSPCR (3:50) and eyeSpace (33:13).
Type of Resource
Moving image
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 926113650
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b20822638
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 1ab70860-a96b-0133-29b1-60f81dd2b63c
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MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Merce Cunningham Dance Company and Post-Show Talk" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 2009. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/26752690-a96b-0133-e12f-60f81dd2b63c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Merce Cunningham Dance Company and Post-Show Talk" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/26752690-a96b-0133-e12f-60f81dd2b63c

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (2009). Merce Cunningham Dance Company and Post-Show Talk Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/26752690-a96b-0133-e12f-60f81dd2b63c

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Merce Cunningham Dance Company and Post-Show Talk