Research Catalog

Title

Black Mountain College and Merce Cunningham in the fifties: New perspectives [electronic resource]

Publication

1993.

Details

Additional Authors

• Siegel, Marcia B.
• Fetterman, William.
• Gerber, Natelie Ellen.
• Potter, Michelle, 1944-
• Vaughan, David, 1924-
• Jowitt, Deborah
• Brown, Carolyn, 1927-
• Cernovich, Nicola.
• Farber, Viola.
• Roberts, Jane B.
• Dance Critics Association (U.S.)
• Russell Sage College.
• Black Mountain College and Merce Cunningham in the fifties: New perspectives (1993 : Russell Sage College)

Description

1 streaming video file (89 min.) : sd. color NTSC.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Jane Roberts.

Subjects

• Dance > Philosophy
• Television > Black Mountain College and Merce Cunningham in the fifties: New perspectives
• Mixed media performances
• Happenings (Art)
• Chance composition in dance
• Theatre piece (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
• Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)
• Diaghilev, Serge, 1872-1929
• Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 > Aesthetics
• Tudor, David, 1926-1996
• Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956
• Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008
• Cage, John
• Cunningham, Merce

Note

• Part of an eight-cassette documentation of a symposium held at Russell Sage College, Troy, New York, from October 9-10, 1993. Sponsored by Russell Sage College and the Dance Critics Association. Cassette 6 was recorded on October 10, 1993.

Access (note)

• Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Contents

CONTENTS: Announcements by Jane Roberts (approx. 6 min.). -- Session 1: Paper presentations and discussion. Moderator: Marcia B. Siegel. William Fetterman: John Cage's Water music (approx. 22 min.). Historical and musical analysis of a composition by John Cage, first performed in 1952 by David Tudor. -- Natelie Ellen Gerber: Artist descending a staircase: collaboration at Black Mountain College and in the works of John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Robert Rauschenberg (approx. 18 min.). Historical study, highlighting Cage's mixed media work Theatre piece no. 1. -- Michelle Potter: Merce Cunningham and the specter of the Gesamtkunstwerk (approx. 19 min.). Paper read by David Vaughan. Examination of Cunningham's collaborative process, in contrast to the concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk as formulated by Richard Wagner, Serge Diaghilev, and Bertolt Brecht. -- Discussion (approx. 24 min.), among Siegel, the writers, and audience members, including Nikola Cernovitch, Carolyn Brown, Viola Farber, and Deborah Jowitt.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 5388

OCLC

NYPY946051050-F

Title

Black Mountain College and Merce Cunningham in the fifties: New perspectives [electronic resource]

Imprint

1993.

Restricted Access

Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZIA 4-1727 cassette 6.

Additional Copy: None.

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Local Subject

Chance composition in dance.

Local Subject

Mixed media performances.

Television. Black Mountain College and Merce Cunningham in the fifties: New perspectives.

Added Author

Siegel, Marcia B. Moderator

Fetterman, William. Speaker

Gerber, Natelie Ellen. Speaker

Potter, Michelle, 1944- Author

Vaughan, David, 1924- Speaker

Jowitt, Deborah, commentator.

Brown, Carolyn, 1927- Commentator

Cernovich, Nicola. Commentator

Farber, Viola. Commentator

Roberts, Jane B. Speaker

Dance Critics Association (U.S.)

Russell Sage College.

Black Mountain College and Merce Cunningham in the fifties: New perspectives (1993 : Russell Sage College)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 5388

*MGZIA 4-1727 cassette 6 (former)