Event lifts: [rehearsal]

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Title

Event lifts: [rehearsal]

Collection

Merce Cunningham Video Archive

Names

Cunningham, Merce (Creator)
Cunningham, Merce (Choreographer)
Cunningham, Merce (Director)
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)
Kulick, David (Dancer)
Lent, Patricia (Dancer)
McGoldrick, Larissa (Dancer)
Sanderson, Randall (Dancer)
Swinston, Robert (Dancer)
Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Dancer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1991-07-11

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 2897
Shelf locator: *MGZIDVD 5-2024 (former)

Subjects

Rehearsals
Modern dance

Genres

Filmed Dance

Notes

Content: Notes on original container: Event lifts, Scramble (Frédéric 7 passé skips), Walkaround left (stage right).
Venue: Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, July 11, 1991.
Biographical/Historical: Cunningham's Events are full evening presentations consisting of a selection from his group and solo works performed to music and decor specially arranged for that event. Each event is performed only once, and not meant to be repeated.
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Physical Description

Extent: 1 videocassette (VHS) (18 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

Abstract

Merce Cunningham, speaking off-camera, directs run-throughs of material used in Events, including excerpts from Cunningham's works Scramble and Walkaround time. The choreographic material rehearsed consists mainly of lifts.

Languages

English

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b16470144
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): b2061d20-b2ba-0131-e65f-3c075448cc4b

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Moving Image

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MLA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Event lifts: [rehearsal]" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1991. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b2061d20-b2ba-0131-e65f-3c075448cc4b

APA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1991). Event lifts: [rehearsal] Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b2061d20-b2ba-0131-e65f-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Event lifts: [rehearsal]" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 8, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b2061d20-b2ba-0131-e65f-3c075448cc4b

Wikipedia citation

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