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Backstage at the Paris Opera : Garnier event II [excerpt]

Title: Backstage at the Paris Opera : Garnier event II [excerpt], 1998 January 17 & 18 / choreography by Merce Cunningham.
Publication: 1998.

Available Online

NYPL Digital Collections

Details

Additional Authors

Found In

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Description

1 streaming video file (30 min) : sound, color

Uniform Title

Event (Choreographic work : Cunningham). selections.

Alternative Title

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Moving image materials.

Genre/Form

Dance.
Music.
Video.
Filmed dance.
Filmed performances.

Note

Title provided by cataloger, based on original container label; statement of responsibility and credits taken from documents provided by Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation.
Footage of Garnier event II shot from backstage with a hand-held camera by company director Donna Richard.
This is Foofwa d'Imobilité's last performance.
Both David Vaughan and Merce Cunningham speak at Bénédicte [Pesle] and Arlette's home. Cunningham is barely audible.

Access (note)

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

Credits (note)

Music composed and performed by Takehisa Kosugi and Steve Lacy; decor (from Points in space) by William Anastasi; costumes by Suzanne Gallo; lighting by David Covey.

System Details (note)

Streaming video.

Source (note)

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Contents

Garnier event II (15 min.) -- Bénédicte [Pesle] & Arlette's home (14 min.)

Call Number

*MGZIDF 1768

OCLC

897053350

Title

Backstage at the Paris Opera : Garnier event II [excerpt], 1998 January 17 & 18 / choreography by Merce Cunningham.

Production

1998.

Country of Producing Entity

France.

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Performer

Performed by members of Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Lisa Boudreau, Thomas Caley, Michael Cole, Holly Farmer, Maydelle Fason, Jean Freebury, Foofwa d'Imobilité (Frédéric Gafner), Matthew Mohr, Banu Ogan, Jared Phillips, Glen Rumsey, Jeannie Steele, Derry Swan, Robert Swinston, Cheryl Therrien.

Credits

Music composed and performed by Takehisa Kosugi and Steve Lacy; decor (from Points in space) by William Anastasi; costumes by Suzanne Gallo; lighting by David Covey.

Event

Recorded 1998 January 17 & 18 Paris Opera & Bénédicte [Pesle] and Arlette's home, Paris, France.

System Details

Streaming video.

Original Version

Original format: 1 videocassette (VHS) ; 1/2 in.

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.

Cunningham, Merce, speaker.

Richard, Donna, videographer.

Vaughan, David, 1924- speaker.

Pesle, Bénédicte, host.

Boudreau, Lisa, dancer.

Caley, Thomas, dancer.

Cole, Michael Eugene, dancer.

Farmer, Holley, dancer.

Fason, Maydelle, dancer.

Freebury, Jean, dancer.

Gafner, Frédéric, dancer.

Mohr, Matthew, dancer.

Ogan, Banu, dancer.

Phillips, Jared, dancer.

Rumsey, Glen, dancer.

Steele, Jeannie K., dancer.

Swan, Derry, dancer.

Swinston, Robert, dancer.

Therrien, Cheryl, dancer.

Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938- composer.

Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938- instrumentalist.

Lacy, Steve, composer.

Lacy, Steve, instrumentalist.

Merce Cunningham Dance Company, dancer.

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation donor.

Added Title

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

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Moving image materials.

Found In:

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 1768

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