RainForest [and] Eleven

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Title

RainForest [and] Eleven

Collection

Merce Cunningham Video Archive

Names

Cunningham, Merce (Creator)
Cunningham, Merce (Choreographer)
Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987 (Designer)
Anastasi, William, 1933- (Designer)
Barrow, Helen (Dancer)
Finlayson, Victoria (Dancer)
Good, Alan (Dancer)
Komar, Chris (Dancer)
Kulick, David (Dancer)
Lent, Patricia (Dancer)
McGoldrick, Larissa (Dancer)
O'Connor, Dennis. (Dancer)
Santimyer, Kristy (Dancer)
Swinston, Robert (Dancer)
Teitelbaum, Carol (Dancer)
Ashley, Robert, 1930- (Composer)
Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938- (Instrumentalist)
Tudor, David, 1926-1996 (Composer)
Pugliese, Michael (Instrumentalist)
Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Presenter)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1988-07-20

Table Of Contents

RainForest / performed by Helen Barrow, Chris Komar, Robert Swinston, Alan Good, Patricia Lent, Carol Teitelbaum (22 min.) -- Eleven / performed by Helen Barrow, Victoria Finlayson, Alan Good, Chris Komar, David Kulick, Patricia Lent, Larissa McGoldrick, Dennis O'Connor, Kristy Santimyer, Robert Swinston, Carol Teitelbaum (29 min.)

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 3147
Shelf locator: *MGZIDVD 5-353 (former)

Subjects

Modern dance
RainForest (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Eleven (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Genres

Filmed Dance
Filmed Performances

Notes

Content: Filmed in wide shot.
Creation/Production Credits: RainForest. Music by David Tudor, performed by Tudor and Takehisa Kosugi. Scenery, costumes and lighting by Andy Warhol.
Creation/Production Credits: Eleven. Music by Robert Ashley (Problems in the flying saucer), performed by Takehisa Kosugi and Michael Pugliese. Scenery and lighting by William Anastasi.
Venue: Videotaped in performance at the American Dance Festival, Page Auditorium, Duke University, N.C., on July 23, 1988.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 videocassette (VHS) (51 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b16295828
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): bdd3bd00-e880-0131-5952-3c075448cc4b

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. "RainForest [and] Eleven" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1988. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bdd3bd00-e880-0131-5952-3c075448cc4b

APA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1988). RainForest [and] Eleven Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bdd3bd00-e880-0131-5952-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "RainForest [and] Eleven" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 6, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bdd3bd00-e880-0131-5952-3c075448cc4b

Wikipedia citation

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