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Coast zone: [rehearsal]

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Title

Coast zone: [rehearsal]

Collection

Merce Cunningham Video Archive

Names

Cunningham, Merce (Creator)
Cunningham, Merce (Choreographer)
Friedman, Lise (Dancer)
Greenberg, Neil, 1959- (Dancer)
Kerr, Catherine (Dancer)
Lennon, Joseph (Dancer)
Remley, Rob (Dancer)
Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Dancer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1983

Table Of Contents

Stage right (26 min.) -- Stage left (26 min.)

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 1970
Shelf locator: *MGZIDVD 5-954 (former)

Subjects

Rehearsals
Modern dance

Genres

Filmed Dance

Notes

Venue: Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, date unknown, 1983.
Biographical/Historical: Coast zone was created as a filmdance in Jan. 1983. The stage version premiered Mar. 1983 at City Center, New York, with a musical score by Larry Austin.
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Physical Description

Extent: 1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.) : silent, black and white ; 1/2 in.
Poor picture quality.

Abstract

This video contains two studio run-throughs of Coast zone, filmed from different angles, each showing a partial view of the studio.

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b16140544
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 79b316c0-b2b9-0131-c741-3c075448cc4b

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Moving Image

Cite this item

MLA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Coast zone: [rehearsal]" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1983. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/79b316c0-b2b9-0131-c741-3c075448cc4b

APA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1983). Coast zone: [rehearsal] Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/79b316c0-b2b9-0131-c741-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Coast zone: [rehearsal]" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 14, 2026. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/79b316c0-b2b9-0131-c741-3c075448cc4b

Wikipedia citation

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