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Grand Central dances: Merce Cunningham segment, 1987

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Merce Cunningham Video Archive

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Grand Central dances

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Title
Grand Central dances: Merce Cunningham segment, 1987
Additional title: Event (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Names
Cunningham, Merce (Creator)
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 (Presenter)
Collection

Merce Cunningham Video Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1987
Table of Contents
Street performers at Washington Square Park (7 min.) -- Grand Central Event (11 min.)
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 3581
Topics
Modern dance
Genres
Filmed dance
Filmed performances
Notes
Content: Title, statement of responsibility and credits taken from documents provided by Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation.
Content: Event starts 7 min. into video. The Event is preceded by footage of unidentified street performers in Washington Square Park, NYC.
Content: 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.
Content: Perhaps 7/23/1988 refers to Washington Square Park footage?
Venue: Recorded 1987 Grand Central Terminal, New York, NY.
Acquisition: Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
Physical Description
Videocassette
Extent: 1 videocassette (Betacam) (18 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Description
This is footage from a segment of a documentary on Grand Central Dances. See *MGZIC 9-3494 for full documentary.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 892928294
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b20313161
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 80a93aa0-6461-0132-1403-3c075448cc4b
Rights Statement
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MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Grand Central dances" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1987. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/81c2c630-6461-0132-dcf4-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Grand Central dances" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 28, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/81c2c630-6461-0132-dcf4-3c075448cc4b

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1987). Grand Central dances Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/81c2c630-6461-0132-dcf4-3c075448cc4b

Wikipedia Citation

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Grand Central dances