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| Genre/Form: | Video |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Merce Cunningham |
| Material Type: | Videorecording |
| Document Type: | Visual material |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Merce Cunningham; David Vaughan; American Dance Festival. |
| OCLC Number: | 78682917 |
| Performer(s): | Speakers: Merce Cunningham, David Vaughan. |
| Production notes: | Videotaped at the American Dance Festival, Durham, N.C., on June 22, 1996. |
| Description: | 1 videodisc (NTSC) (59 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Series Title: | Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection |
Abstract:
Merce Cunningham begins the program by introducing David Vaughan, describing how Vaughan became involved with the Cunningham company. Cunningham continues to speak about his company's beginnings at Black Mountain College; the current state of the dance world, and the influence of television on how people view dance; his interest in pure movement; recollections of Mrs. Barrett, his first dance teacher; his collaborations with John Cage and other composers; his use of Life Forms computer software, and of chance procedures, in creating choreography. Vaughan and Cunningham answer questions from the audience, discussing the multiplicity of rhythms in Cunningham's choreography; the making of the work Ocean; how Cunningham was influenced by the I ching and by Zen Buddist ideas about decentralization; Cunningham's ideas about the expressive qualities of movement.
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