About Digital Collections
Browse
Search only public domain materials
Search Browse About
Search only public domain materials
Items Collections Divisions
Digital Collections Using Images Using Data
Items Ocean [and] sequences from Installations

Ocean [and] sequences from Installations: [rehearsal]

More Details Cite This Item

Library division & collection with this item:

LIBRARY DIVISION
Jerome Robbins Dance Division

  • Choregraphie
  • A long minuet as danced at Bath
  • Sketchbook
  • Sarah Bernhardt's farewell American tour
  • Scrapbook documenting the appearances of dancer Alice Eis and her partner Bert French
  • The dance score
  • Traité élémentaire, théorique et pratique de l'art de la danse
  • Sketchbook
  • Coreografie per ballabili d'opera
  • Caricature of Sergeĭ Dyagilev
  • La sténochorégraphie
  • Ehon Tsūhōshi
  • Le maître a danser
  • America
  • Costume designs for the ballet La Pastorella Svizzera
Previous Next

COLLECTION
Merce Cunningham Video Archive

This Item

Ocean [and] sequences from Installations

View this item elsewhere:

Title
Ocean [and] sequences from Installations: [rehearsal]
Additional title: Ocean (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Additional title: Installations (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Names
Cunningham, Merce (Creator)
Cunningham, Merce (Choreographer)
Boudreau, Lisa (Dancer)
Caley, Thomas (Dancer)
Freebury, Jean (Dancer)
Gafner, Frédéric (Dancer)
Kulick, David (Dancer)
Mohr, Matthew D. (Dancer)
Ogan, Banu (Dancer)
Phillips, Jared (Dancer)
Steele, Jeannie K. (Dancer)
Swan, Derry (Dancer)
Swinston, Robert (Dancer)
Therrien, Cheryl (Dancer)
Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Dancer)
Collection

Merce Cunningham Video Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1998-06
Table of Contents
Ocean (90 min.) -- Installations [excerpt] (12 min.)
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 3602
Shelf locator: *MGZIDVD 5-434 (former)
Topics
Modern dance
Rehearsals
Genres
Filmed dance
Notes
Content: Note on original container: SR [i.e. stage right].
Performers: Rehearsed by members of Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Lisa Boudreau, Thomas Caley, Jean Freebury, Foofwa d'Imobilité [aka Frédéric Gafner], David Kulick, Matthew Mohr, Banu Ogan, Jared Phillips, Jeannie Steele, Derry Swan, Robert Swinston, Cheryl Therrien, and others.
Venue: Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, June 1998.
Biographical/historical: Ocean premiered at the Cirque Royal in Brussels on May 18, 1994, with a musical score by David Tudor and Andrew Culver, based on ideas of John Cage. Installations premiered in Seattle on May 2, 1996 with a musical score by Trimpin. Ocean and Installations were both revived by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1998.
Physical Description
Videocassette
Extent: 1 videocassette (S-VHS) (102 min.) : sound, color
Description
This video features a run-through of Ocean, in rehearsal clothes, without musical accompaniment, followed by a run-through of an excerpt from Installations.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b16172233
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): ec3f4d10-314a-0132-5ad6-3c075448cc4b
Rights Statement
This item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).

Item timeline of events

  • 1998: Created
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Ocean [and] sequences from Installations" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1998. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ed179af0-314a-0132-3577-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Ocean [and] sequences from Installations" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ed179af0-314a-0132-3577-3c075448cc4b

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1998). Ocean [and] sequences from Installations Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ed179af0-314a-0132-3577-3c075448cc4b

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ed179af0-314a-0132-3577-3c075448cc4b | title= (moving image) Ocean [and] sequences from Installations, (1998)|author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=April 16, 2024 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

Ocean [and] sequences from Installations