Merce Cunningham: and the premiere of Touchbase on Meridian reports (Radio program), BBC Radio, 1992-07-21/22

Item data

Title

Merce Cunningham: and the premiere of Touchbase on Meridian reports (Radio program), BBC Radio, 1992-07-21/22

Collection

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials

Names

Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Associated name)
Cunningham, Merce (Interviewee)
Alston, Richard, 1948- (Commentator)
Brett, Steven, 1965- (Commentator)
Heaton, Roger (Commentator)
Mackrell, Judith (Commentator)
Vaughan, David, 1924- (Commentator)
Warsop, Sarah (Commentator)
BBC Radio (Broadcaster)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1992-07-22

Library Location

Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
Shelf locator: *LTC-A 1450

Subjects

Cage, John
Cunningham, Merce
Pugliese, Michael. Icebreeze
Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Rambert Dance Company
Septet (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Touchbase (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Aleatory music
Choreography
Music and dance
Modern dance music
Percussion music

Genres

Interviews

Notes

Content: Contains a radio segment on Merce Cunningham for Meridian reports (Radio program) broadcast on BBC Radio; correlating to the premiere of Merce Cunningham's Touchbase by the Rambert Dance Company.
Content: Title, dates and location provided by cataloger based on handwritten notes on original container and cassette, and audition.
Content: Handwritten notes on original container and cassette: "Meridian - BBC World Service "Merce Cunningham" ; 92R50M803 - stereo ; TX: 21/7/92 - 2030 GMT ; 22/7/92 - 0630 GMT ; 22/7/92 - 1130 GMT ; presented + compiled by [Miviam?] Newman ; produced by Selina [Haniff?]".
Venue: Broadcast in, London, England, 1992 July 21 and 22.
Acquisition: Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 audiocassette (28 minutes) : analog
Sound quality is good.

Abstract

Begins abruptly; Merce Cunningham speaks about his interest in dance; David Vaughan comments on the creative abilities of Cunningham; program host [Miviam?] Newman introduces Cunningham and the London premiere of Touchbase (1992); Judith Mackrell, dance critic, comments on Cunningham and his use of chance procedure; Mackrell speaks about the characteristics of Cunningham's choreography as differing from Martha Graham's choreography; Cunningham speaks about how he works with music as independent from the dance [excerpts of John Cage's music are interspersed between the clips of Cunningham speaking]; Cunningham speaks about taking his inspiration from ordinary life and nature; he tells an anecdote about a question asked of him about music by a dancer in Calcutta, India; his reasons for presenting his work with music rather than silence and working with contemporary composers; Roger Heaton, musical director of Rambert Dance Company, speaks about Michael Pugliese's Icebreeze, the music for Cunningham's Touchbase (1992), including the percussion instruments and Pugliese's aleatory score [excerpts from Icebreeze are interspersed between the speakers]; Richard Alston, director of the Rambert Company, comments on Touchbase and the set design by Mark Lancaster; Cunningham speaks about his use of the LifeForms software to choreograph; Sarah Warsop and Steven Brett, dancers from the Rambert Company, comment on rehearsing and dancing Touchbase with Cunningham and his Merce Cunningham Dance Company; Mackrell comments on Touchbase including its movement vocabulary, mood, and set design; Newman introduces another Cunningham piece danced by the Rambert Company, Septet (1953), with music by Erik Satie; [excerpts from Satie's Trois morceaux en forme de poire (1903) are interspersed between the speakers]; Alston comments on how Septet relates to and differs from Touchbase; Mackrell comments on Cunningham as a choreographer; Cunningham speaks briefly about how he sees dance as an independent art form.

Languages

English

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 914477640
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b20750240
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): ee9899c0-b906-0133-6b18-60f81dd2b63c

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Type Of Resource

Sound Recording

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