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 Merce Cunningham Dance Company Residence at PS 89, Spring 2007, Tape 4, 2007-04-24

Merce Cunningham Dance Company Residence at PS 89, Spring 2007, Tape 4, 2007-04-24

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

Merce Cunningham Dance Company Residence at PS 89, Spring 2007, Tape 4, 2007-04-24

View this item elsewhere:

Title
Merce Cunningham Dance Company Residence at PS 89, Spring 2007, Tape 4, 2007-04-24
Names
Cunningham, Merce (Creator)
Bokaer, Jonah (Speaker)
Collection

Merce Cunningham Video Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 2007-04-24
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 6851
Topics
Dance in education
School children
Modern dance
Rehearsals
Genres
Filmed dance
Notes
Content: Title provided by cataloger, based on original container label.
Venue: Recorded 2007, April 24. New York City.
Acquisition: Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
Physical Description
Videocassette
Extent: 1 videocassette (MiniDV) (25 min.) : sound, color ; 8mm.
Description
A children's workshop given as part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's multi-week residency at Public School 89 in New York City. MCDC dancer Jonah Bokaer leads the students through an exercise where they learn about the choreographer's use of chance operations to create works, after which the students create their own choreography based on chance operations and motifs of Cunningham's choreography.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 969974028
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b21163009
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 18772800-9299-0136-5ba4-0d2371bf88c9
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

  • 2007: Created
  • 2018: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Merce Cunningham Dance Company Residence at PS 89, Spring 2007, Tape 4, 2007-04-24" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 2007. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/27e3bf10-ef99-0133-3ff7-60f81dd2b63c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Merce Cunningham Dance Company Residence at PS 89, Spring 2007, Tape 4, 2007-04-24" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/27e3bf10-ef99-0133-3ff7-60f81dd2b63c

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (2007). Merce Cunningham Dance Company Residence at PS 89, Spring 2007, Tape 4, 2007-04-24 Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/27e3bf10-ef99-0133-3ff7-60f81dd2b63c

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/27e3bf10-ef99-0133-3ff7-60f81dd2b63c | title= (moving image) Merce Cunningham Dance Company Residence at PS 89, Spring 2007, Tape 4, 2007-04-24, (2007)|author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=April 24, 2024 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

Merce Cunningham Dance Company Residence at PS 89, Spring 2007, Tape 4, 2007-04-24