Research Catalog

Title

Doubles [and] Pictures [electronic resource] : [rehearsals] / choreography by Merce Cunningham.

Publication

1984.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cunningham, Merce
• Burns, Louise Ann
• Friedman, Lise
• Good, Alan
• Greenberg, Neil, 1959-
• Kerr, Catherine
• Komar, Chris
• Lennon, Joseph
• Remley, Rob
• Swinston, Robert
• Walker, Megan
• Quinn, Susan
• Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Found In

Merce Cunningham archive.

Description

1 streaming video file (105 min.) : sd., col.

Summary

This video features studio run-throughs of Doubles and Pictures, in rehearsal clothes, without musical accompaniment. The remainder of the video features a dress rehearsal of Squaregame filmed in 1976.

Series Statement

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection

Uniform Title

• Doubles (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
• Pictures (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.
• Dance rehearsals.

Note

• Note on original container: Doubles A&B, stage right.

With (note)

• On reel with: Squaregame, dress rehearsal (27 min.). See *MGZIDVD 5-959.

Access (note)

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

Event (note)

• Videotaped in rehearsals at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, Aug. 1984.

Biography (note)

• Doubles premiered June 28, 1984 in Durham, N.C., with a musical score by Takehisa Kosugi. Pictures premiered Mar 6., 1984 in New York City, with a musical score by David Behrmann.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.

Contents

Doubles A / rehearsed by Louise Burns, Lise Friedman, Alan Good, Neil Greenberg, Rob Remley, Megan Walker, Susan Quinn Young (26 min.) -- Doubles B / rehearsed by Catherine Kerr, Chris Komar, Robert Swinston and others (26 min.) -- Pictures / rehearsed by Louise Burns, Lise Friedman, Alan Good, Neil Greenberg, Catherine Kerr, Chris Komar, Joseph Lennon, Rob Remley, Robert Swinston, Megan Walker, Susan Quinn Young and others (27 min.)

Call Number

*MGZIDF 1978

OCLC

NYPG05-F10891

Title

Doubles [and] Pictures [electronic resource] : [rehearsals] / choreography by Merce Cunningham.

Imprint

1984.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection

With:

On reel with: Squaregame, dress rehearsal (27 min.). See *MGZIDVD 5-959.

Performer

Rehearsed by members of Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Louise Burns, Lise Friedman, Alan Good, Neil Greenberg, Catherine Kerr, Chris Komar, Joseph Lennon, Rob Remley, Robert Swinston, Megan Walker, Susan Quinn Young and others.

Event

Videotaped in rehearsals at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, Aug. 1984.

Biography

Doubles premiered June 28, 1984 in Durham, N.C., with a musical score by Takehisa Kosugi. Pictures premiered Mar 6., 1984 in New York City, with a musical score by David Behrmann.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.

Local Note

Former classmark: *MGZIDVD 5-959.

Both versions of Doubles are filmed from an angle that does not show the entire studio. For another recording of the run-throughs of Doubles, filmed from a different angle, see *MGZIDF 1979.

Transferred from original 1/2 in. open reels by Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation. Poor picture quality.

Access

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

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Added Author

Cunningham, Merce, choreographer.

Burns, Louise Ann, dancer.

Friedman, Lise, dancer.

Good, Alan, dancer.

Greenberg, Neil, 1959- dancer.

Kerr, Catherine, dancer.

Komar, Chris, dancer.

Lennon, Joseph, dancer.

Remley, Rob, dancer.

Swinston, Robert, dancer.

Walker, Megan, dancer.

Quinn, Susan, dancer.

Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Added Title

Doubles (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Pictures (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Found In:

Merce Cunningham archive.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-959 (former)