Torse trio [and] Touchbase: rehearsal

Item data

Title

Torse trio [and] Touchbase: rehearsal

Collection

Merce Cunningham Video Archive

Names

Cunningham, Merce (Creator)
Cunningham, Merce (Choreographer)
Barrow, Helen (Dancer)
Bartosik, Kimberly (Dancer)
Cole, Michael Eugene (Dancer)
Diamond, Emma (Dancer)
Gafner, Frédéric (Dancer)
Good, Alan (Dancer)
Kulick, David (Dancer)
Lent, Patricia (Dancer)
Swinston, Robert (Dancer)
Weaver, Jenifer (Dancer)
Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Dancer)
Rambert Dance Company (Dancer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1992-05-29

Table Of Contents

Torse trio [first run-through] / rehearsed by Alan Good, David Kulick and [Victoria Finlayson?] (6 min.) -- Torse trio [second run-through] / rehearsed by same cast as first run-through (6 min.) -- Touchbase / rehearsed by Michael Cole, Emma Diamond, David Kulick, Patricia Lent, Robert Swinston, and others (29 min.) -- Touchbase / rehearsed by members of Rambert Dance (29 min.) -- Touchbase / rehearsed by Helen Barrow, Kimberly Bartosik, Frédéric Gafner, Alan Good, Jenifer Weaver and others (28 min.)

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 2907
Shelf locator: *MGZIDVD 5-995 (former)

Subjects

Rehearsals
Modern dance

Genres

Filmed Dance

Notes

Content: Note on original container: stage right.
Venue: Videotaped in rehearsal, in rehearsal clothes, without musical accompaniment, at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, on May 29, 1992.
Biographical/Historical: Touchbase was commissioned and premiered by Rambert Dance Company in June 1992. The Merce Cunningham Dance Company premiered Touchbase in Mar. 1993. Touchbase had a musical score by Michael Pugliese.
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Physical Description

Extent: 1 videocassette (VHS) (99 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

Abstract

This video features two run-throughs of the trio section from Torse, and three run-throughs of Touchbase, by two casts of Cunningham dancers and the Rambert Dance Company cast.

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b16143606
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 12803190-b2bb-0131-3539-3c075448cc4b

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Moving Image

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