369 research outputs found
Cage, Cunningham
No full textKaleidoscopic view of John Cage and Merce Cunningham at work and at leisure, filmed over an eight-year period and supplemented by archival footage spanning the fifty-year collaboration of the composer and the choreographer. In interviews captured at different times and places, Cage, Cunningham, and performers, composers, artists, and other associates discuss aspects of their professional and personal interactions. Dance and music excerpts, recorded in performance and rehearsal, demonstrate the richness and variety of their productions. Full information on these excerpts appears at the end of the program
Crwdspcr
No full textLooks at Merce Cunningham's choreographic methods and shows the dancers in his dance company working on CRWDSPCR. Features clips from the ballet, short interviews with participants (dancers, costume designer, composer); and choreography by Merce Cunningham
Channels, inserts
No full textCunningham and Atlas divided the studio into sixteen possible areas for dancing and used chance methods based on the I Ching to determine the order in which these spaces would be used, the number of dancers to be seen and events that would occur in each space. Atlas employed cross-cutting and animated mattes or wipes to indicate a simultaneity of dance events occurring in different spaces, as well as to allow for diversity in the continuity of the image
Points in space
No full textIn two parts, the video presents the process and then the product of a collaboration between Merce Cunningham, the choreographer, and composer John Cage
Beach birds for camera
No full textA film adaptation of a modern dance work originally made for the stage. The film combines different shooting locations, black and white and color film and stereo. sound to present the dance through the visual medium of film
Roamin' I
No full textA documentary on the making of the film dance "Locale". Roamin' I which may also be read as "Roman numeral one" or "Roaming eye", the interactions of dancers, choreograper and film crew working together are recorded. The film is a fascinating lesson on the methods used and problems encountered in filming dance movement
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