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DVD

Merce Cunningham Dance Company : Robert Rauschenberg collaborations

Call Number

  • DVD 792.8 M553 (CEN)

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Performers

Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Publication Information

San Francisco, CA : Microcinema International, c2010.

Physical Description

3 videodiscs (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 18 cm.).

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

In 1954, Robert Rauschenberg became the Resident Designer to the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, a position he held for ten years. During that time these friends and collaborators, along with the musician John Cage, created some of the most iconoclastic artworks of the 20th century. This three-DVD set showcases these great artists' work, along with the work of another, filmmaker Charles Atlas.

Notes

Interscape was first performed at Eisenhower Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, April 6th, 2000; Suite for five was first performed May 18, 1956 at University fo Notre Dame, South Bend, IN; Summerspace was first performed at the Eleventh American Dance Festival, August 17, 1958, Connecticut College, New London, CT.

Contents

  • Suite for five
  • Sumerspace
  • Interscape.

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