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Item data

Title

BIPED

Collection

Merce Cunningham Video Archive

Names

Cunningham, Merce (Creator)
Cunningham, Merce (Choreographer)
Bryars, Gavin (Composer)
Boudreau, Lisa (Dancer)
Caley, Thomas (Dancer)
Farmer, Holley (Dancer)
Fason, Maydelle (Dancer)
Freebury, Jean (Dancer)
Kulick, David (Dancer)
Mohr, Matthew D. (Dancer)
Ogan, Banu (Dancer)
Rumsey, Glen (Dancer)
Squire, Daniel S. (Dancer)
Steele, Jeannie K. (Dancer)
Swan, Derry (Dancer)
Swinston, Robert (Dancer)
Therrien, Cheryl (Dancer)
Kaiser, Paul, 1956- (Designer)
Eshkar, Shelley (Designer)
Gallo, Suzanne (Costume designer)
Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1999-04
Place: Berkeley, CA

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 1838

Subjects

Modern dance

Genres

Filmed Dance
Filmed Performances

Notes

Content: Filmed in wide shot. The picture is dark.
Creation/Production Credits: Decor by Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar. Costumes by Suzanne Gallo.
Venue: Videotaped in performance in Berkeley, Calif., in Apr. 1999.
Creation/Production Credits: The decor for BIPED was developed from the motion-capture animation project Hand-drawn spaces by Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar, with choreography by Merce Cunningham.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 videocassette (VHS) (50 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b16304114
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): a3184e80-352b-0131-81d4-3c075448cc4b

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Moving Image

Cite this item

MLA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "BIPED" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a3184e80-352b-0131-81d4-3c075448cc4b

APA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. BIPED Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a3184e80-352b-0131-81d4-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "BIPED" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 9, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a3184e80-352b-0131-81d4-3c075448cc4b

Wikipedia citation

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