Contact improvisation at the Cunningham Studio

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Title

Contact improvisation at the Cunningham Studio

Collection

Mary Overlie Video Archive

Names

Overlie, Mary (Dancer)
Martin, Nina (Dancer)
Beavers, Wendell (Dancer)
Langland, Paul (Dancer)
Padow, Judy (Dancer)
Feld, Robin (Dancer)
Smith, Nancy Stark (Dancer)
Kraus, Lisa (Dancer)
Woodberry, David (Dancer)
Petronio, Stephen (Dancer)
Lepkoff, Daniel (Dancer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1978-04-21

Table Of Contents

[Solo] (ca. 5 min.) / danced by unidentified man -- Spatial flow (ca. 9 min.) / improvisation score created by Mary Overlie ; danced by Nina Martin, Wendell Beavers, Paul Langland, and Mary Overlie -- [Solo] (ca. 3 min.) / danced by Paul Langland -- [Contact improvisation] / danced by a group of dancers including Judy Padow, Robin Feld, Nina Martin, Nancy Stark Smith, Lisa Kraus, Mary Overlie, David Woodberry, Wendell Beavers, Paul Langland, Stephen Petronio, Danny Lepkoff, and others.

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 9597
Shelf locator: *MGZIC 9-4051 (former)

Subjects

Overlie, Mary
Improvisation in dance

Genres

Filmed Dance
Filmed Performances

Notes

Content: Title from information provided by Mary Overlie.
Content: Opening of concert not recorded. For second part of concert, see *MGZIC 9-4052 Contact improvisation at the Cunningham Studio.
Venue: Videotaped in performance at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio, New York, on April 21, 1978.
Funding: Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 videotape reel (32 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.

Languages

English

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: NYPY96-F522
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b12684592
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): d8180bc0-7abc-0135-06ef-6d79ef7b9c91

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. "Contact improvisation at the Cunningham Studio" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1978. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d8180bc0-7abc-0135-06ef-6d79ef7b9c91

APA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1978). Contact improvisation at the Cunningham Studio Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d8180bc0-7abc-0135-06ef-6d79ef7b9c91

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Contact improvisation at the Cunningham Studio" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 11, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d8180bc0-7abc-0135-06ef-6d79ef7b9c91

Wikipedia citation

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