Research Catalog

Beacon event

Title: Beacon event : dress rehearsal, 2007-09-28 / choreography by Merce Cunningham.
Publication: 2007.

Available Online

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Details

Additional Authors

Found In

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Description

1 streaming video file (40 min) : sound, color

Summary

This video features a dress rehearsal of an Event to be performed the following two evenings. (See *MGZIDF 3660 and *MGZIDF 3661 for footage of these Events.) The dancers rehearse to musical accompaniment in the Warhol Room at DIA: Beacon, which displays silkscreens from Warhol's Shadow series.

Uniform Title

Event (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Alternative Title

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Moving image materials.

Genre/Form

Dance.
Music.
Video.
Filmed dance.
Dance rehearsals.

Note

Title, statement of responsibility and credits taken from documents provided by Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation.

Access (note)

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

Credits (note)

Music written and performed by David Behrman, John King, Takehisa Kosugi and Christian Wolff; costume design by Anna Finke.

System Details (note)

Streaming video.

Source (note)

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 3659

OCLC

890602982

Title

Beacon event : dress rehearsal, 2007-09-28 / choreography by Merce Cunningham.

Production

2007.

Country of Producing Entity

United States.

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Performer

Rehearsed by members of Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Jonah Bokaer, Lisa Boudreau, Brandon A. Collwes, Julie Cunningham, Emma Desjardins, Holley Farmer, Jennifer Goggans, Daniel Madoff, Rashaun Mitchell, Koji Mizuta, Marcie Munnerlyn, Daniel Squire, Robert Swinston, Andrea Weber.

Credits

Music written and performed by David Behrman, John King, Takehisa Kosugi and Christian Wolff; costume design by Anna Finke.

Event

Recorded 2007 September 28 Warhol Room, DIA: Beacon Riggio Galleries, Beacon, New York.

System Details

Streaming video.

Original Version

Original format: 1 videocassette (MiniDV).

Access

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

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Source

Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.

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Added Author

Cunningham, Merce, choreographer.

Bokaer, Jonah, dancer.

Boudreau, Lisa, dancer.

Collwes, Brandon, dancer.

Cunningham, Julie Dawn, dancer.

Desjardins, Emma, dancer.

Farmer, Holley, dancer.

Goggans, Jennifer, dancer.

Madoff, Daniel, dancer.

Mitchell, Rashaun, dancer.

Mizuta, Koji, dancer.

Munnerlyn, Marcie, dancer.

Squire, Daniel S., dancer.

Swinston, Robert, dancer.

Weber, Andrea Michelle, 1975- dancer.

Behrman, David, composer.

Behrman, David, instrumentalist.

King, John, 1953 November 28- composer.

King, John, 1953 November 28- instrumentalist.

Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938- composer.

Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938- instrumentalist.

Wolff, Christian, 1934- composer.

Wolff, Christian, 1934- instrumentalist.

Finke, Anna, costume designer.

Merce Cunningham Dance Company, dancer.

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation donor.

Added Title

Container of (work): Event (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Moving image materials.

Found In:

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 3659

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