Quartet

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Item data

Title

Quartet

Collection

Merce Cunningham Video Archive

Names

Cunningham, Merce (Creator)
Cunningham, Merce (Choreographer)
Barrow, Helen (Dancer)
Radford, Karen, 1957- (Dancer)
Remley, Rob (Dancer)
Teitelbaum, Carol (Dancer)
Lancaster, Mark, 1938- (Designer)
Tudor, David, 1926-1996 (Composer)
Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1987-05-28

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 2924
Shelf locator: *MGZIDVD 5-903 (former)

Subjects

Modern dance

Genres

Filmed Dance
Filmed Performances

Notes

Content: Filmed in wide shot. The picture is very dark.
Creation/Production Credits: Scenery and costumes: Mark Lancaster. Musician: David Tudor.
Venue: Videotaped in performance at the Theatre de la Ville, Paris, France, May 28, 1987.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 videocassette (VHS) (21 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
The picture is very dark.

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b16111195
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 6e2b60f0-e880-0131-7d6c-3c075448cc4b

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Moving Image

Cite this item

MLA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Quartet" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1987. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6e2b60f0-e880-0131-7d6c-3c075448cc4b

APA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1987). Quartet Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6e2b60f0-e880-0131-7d6c-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Quartet" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 7, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6e2b60f0-e880-0131-7d6c-3c075448cc4b

Wikipedia citation

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