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Beach birds, Neighbors [and] Trackers, 1991-9-17

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Title

Beach birds, Neighbors [and] Trackers, 1991-9-17

Collection

Merce Cunningham Video Archive

Names

Cunningham, Merce (Creator)
Cunningham, Merce (Choreographer)
Cunningham, Merce (Dancer)
Barrow, Helen (Dancer)
Bartosik, Kimberly (Dancer)
Cole, Michael Eugene (Dancer)
Diamond, Emma (Dancer)
Finlayson, Victoria (Dancer)
Gafner, Frédéric (Dancer)
Good, Alan (Dancer)
Komar, Chris (Dancer)
Kulik, David (Dancer)
Lent, Patricia (Dancer)
McGoldrick, Larissa (Dancer)
Sanderson, Randall (Dancer)
Swinston, Robert (Dancer)
Teitelbaum, Carol (Dancer)
Weaver, Jenifer (Dancer)
Cage, John (Composer)
Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938- (Composer)
Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938- (Instrumentalist)
Pimenta, Emanuel Dimas de Melo (Composer)
Miller, Rob, (Vocalist) (Instrumentalist)
Pugliese, Michael (Instrumentalist)
Tudor, David, 1926-1996 (Instrumentalist)
Skinner, Marsha (Designer)
Skinner, Marsha (Costume designer)
Skinner, Marsha (Lighting designer)
Lancaster, Mark, 1938- (Set designer)
Lancaster, Mark, 1938- (Costume designer)
Lancaster, Mark, 1938- (Lighting designer)
Bradshaw, Dove (Designer)
Bradshaw, Dove (Costume designer)
Bradshaw, Dove (Lighting designer)
Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Presenter)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1991-09-17

Table Of Contents

Beach birds (28 min.) -- Neighbors (24 min.) -- Trackers (32 min.)

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 3583

Subjects

Modern dance

Genres

Filmed Dance
Filmed Performances

Notes

Content: Title, statement of responsibility and credits taken from documents provided by Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation.
Creation/Production Credits: Beach birds: music (FOUR3) by John Cage and performed by Takehisa Kosugi, Rob Miller, Michael Pugliese and David Tudor; stage, costume and lighting design by Marsha Skinner.
Creation/Production Credits: Neighbors: music (Streams) by Takehisa Kosugi and performed by Takehisa Kosugi, Michael Pugliese and David Tudor; stage, costume and lighting design by Mark Lancaster.
Creation/Production Credits: Trackers: music (Gravitational Sounds) by Emmanuel Dimas de Melo Pimento and performed by David Tudor; stage, costume and lighting design by Dove Bradshaw.
Venue: Recorded 1991 September 17 Theatre de la Ville, Paris, France.
Acquisition: Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 videocassette (VHS) (84 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 892931582
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b20313162
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): aa9daca0-6461-0132-19b3-3c075448cc4b

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Moving Image

Cite this item

MLA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Beach birds, Neighbors [and] Trackers, 1991-9-17" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1991. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/aa9daca0-6461-0132-19b3-3c075448cc4b

APA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1991). Beach birds, Neighbors [and] Trackers, 1991-9-17 Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/aa9daca0-6461-0132-19b3-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Beach birds, Neighbors [and] Trackers, 1991-9-17" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 14, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/aa9daca0-6461-0132-19b3-3c075448cc4b

Wikipedia citation

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