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Black Mountain College and Merce Cunningham in the fifties: New perspectives

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Jerome Robbins Dance Division

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Black Mountain College and Merce Cunningham in the fifties: New perspectives
Names
Siegel, Marcia B (Moderator)
Plett, Nicole (Speaker)
McCarthy, Rhythm (Speaker)
Snyder, Allegra Fuller (Speaker)
Dance Critics Association (U.S.) (Sponsor)
Russell Sage College (Event place)
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Black Mountain College and Merce Cunningham in the fifties: New perspectives

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1993-10-10
Table of Contents
Program begins approx. 3 min. into tape. Session 2: Paper presentations and discussion. Moderator: Marcia B. Siegel. Nicole Plett: Restaging the Bauhaus: experimental traditions at Black Mountain College, 1936-1938 (approx. 25 min.). Discussion of the achievements of Xanti (Alexander) Schawinsky, a former member of the Bauhaus theater workshop, who initiated the experimental tradition at Black Mountain. Includes background on the Bauhaus, particularly the theatrical works of Oskar Schlemmer and Kurt Schmidt. -- Rhythm McCarthy: Dance at Black Mountain College, 1941-1952: Elsa Kahl, Elizabeth Jennerjahn, and Katherine Litz (approx. 20 min.). Discussion of the contributions of three dance faculty members. -- Allegra Fuller Snyder: A young dancer's view of Merce Cunningham - 1948 and after (approx. 28 min.). A reminiscence of Snyder's father, Buckminster Fuller, and his interactions with Cunningham, Cage, and others at Black Mountain College, and Snyder's own youthful observations of Cunningham's dancing.
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Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 5390
Shelf locator: *MGZIA 4-1727 cassette 8 (former)
Topics
Cunningham, Merce
Cage, John
Schawinsky, Xanti, 1904-1979
Schmidt, Kurt, 1901-1991
Schlemmer, Oskar, 1888-1943
Kahl, Elsa, 1901-1992
Jennerjahn, Elizabeth
Litz, Katherine, -1978
Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983
Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)
Bauhaus
Bauhaus Ballet (Company)
Black Mountain College and Merce Cunningham in the fifties: New perspectives (1993 : Russell Sage College)
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Panel discussions
Notes
Content: Part of an eight-cassette documentation of a symposium held at Russell Sage College, Troy, New York, from October 9-10, 1993. Sponsored by Russell Sage College and the Dance Critics Association. Cassette 8 was recorded on October 10, 1993.
Physical Description
Videocassette
Extent: 1 videocassette (VHS) (76 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPY946051074-F
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12175945
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): d2593580-792a-0134-df8d-00505686a51c
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Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Black Mountain College and Merce Cunningham in the fifties" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1993. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d2b1b060-aa1f-0133-0a47-60f81dd2b63c

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Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Black Mountain College and Merce Cunningham in the fifties" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 26, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d2b1b060-aa1f-0133-0a47-60f81dd2b63c

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Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1993). Black Mountain College and Merce Cunningham in the fifties Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d2b1b060-aa1f-0133-0a47-60f81dd2b63c

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Black Mountain College and Merce Cunningham in the fifties