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Suite for five, Split sides [and] Sounddance

Title: Suite for five, Split sides [and] Sounddance [electronic resource] / [presented by] Merce Cunningham Dance Company ; choreography by Merce Cunningham.
Publication: 2005.

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Found In

Merce Cunningham archive.

Description

2 streaming video files (111 min.) : sd., col.

Series Statement

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection

Uniform Title

Suite for five (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Split sides (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Sounddance (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Genre/Form

Video.
Dance.

Note

There is a 15 min. break between the performances of Suite for five and Split sides, during which Merce Cunningham presides over the throwing of dice to determine the order of choreography, music, costumes and lighting in Split sides.
There is approximately 10 min. of overlap in the recording of Split sides on reel 1 and reel 2.

Access (note)

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

Event (note)

Recorded in performance at Harris Theater, Columbia College, Chicago, on Oct. 28, 2005.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.

Contents

Reel 1. Suite for five / music by John Cage; performed by Cedric Andrieux, Lisa Boudreau, Daniel Roberts, Jeannie Steele, Andrea Weber (25 min.) -- Break and dice throwing (15 min.) -- Split sides [part I] / music by Radiohead and Sigur Ros; decor by Robert Heishman, Catherine Yass; performed by full company (25 min.)
Reel 2. Split sides [part II] (26 min.) -- Sounddance / music by David Tudor; decor by Mark Lancaster; performed by Cedric Andrieux, Lisa Boudreau, Holley Farmer, Jennifer Goggans, Koji Minato, Daniel Roberts, Daniel Squire, Jeannie Steele, Robert Swinston, Andrea Weber (20 min.)

Call Number

*MGZIDF 3696

OCLC

86111705

Title

Suite for five, Split sides [and] Sounddance [electronic resource] / [presented by] Merce Cunningham Dance Company ; choreography by Merce Cunningham.

Imprint

2005.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection

Performer

Performed by members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Cedric Andrieux, Jonah Bokaer, Lisa Boudreau, Julie Cunningham, Holley Farmer, Jennifer Goggans, Rashaun Mitchell, Koji Minato, Marcie Munnerlyn, Daniel Roberts, Daniel Squire, Jeannie Steele, Robert Swinston, Andrea Weber.

Event

Recorded in performance at Harris Theater, Columbia College, Chicago, on Oct. 28, 2005.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.

Local Note

Former classmark: *MGZIDVD 5-2072.

Access

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

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Added Author

Cunningham, Merce, choreographer.

Cage, John. Composer

Tudor, David, 1926-1996. Composer

Heishman, Robert. Designer

Yass, Catherine, 1963- Designer

Andrieux, Cédric, dancer.

Bokaer, Jonah, dancer.

Boudreau, Lisa, dancer.

Cunningham, Julie Dawn, dancer.

Farmer, Holley, dancer.

Goggans, Jennifer, dancer.

Mitchell, Rashaun, dancer.

Minato, Koji, dancer.

Munnerlyn, Marcie, dancer.

Roberts, Daniel Aguzzoli, dancer.

Squire, Daniel S., dancer.

Steele, Jeannie K., dancer.

Swinston, Robert, dancer.

Weber, Andrea Michelle, 1975- dancer.

Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Radiohead (Musical group)

Sigur Rós (Musical group)

Added Title

Suite for five (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Split sides (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Sounddance (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Found In:

Merce Cunningham archive.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-2072 (former)

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