- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 1 streaming video file (86 min) : sound, color
- Summary
- An unidentified instructor in a rehearsal room in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's space at Westbeth, leads a workshop in the use of Dance Forms 1.0. the software utilized by Merce Cunningham in later years to create choreography. The students seem to be dancers, though this is not made clear. The instructor explains the use of the program, making several observations regarding Cunningham's use of Dance Forms and his way of using the software as an extension of his own creative process. The students, split into two groups, use the software to create body movements partially determined by random throws of a set of dice, producing a version of the 'chance transformations' found in Cunningham's pieces. They then create choreographic movements using the figures created by each other's groups. (35:00) Each group then physically creates a Cunningham-like dance using movement and choreography dictated by the other group, and created via Dance Forms 1.0. (49:00)
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Moving image materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Dance workshops and workshop performances.
- Choreography.
- Software.
- Dance.
- Music.
- Video.
- Workshops (Adult education.)
- Note
- Title provided by cataloger, based on original container label; statement of responsibility and credits taken from documents provided by Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.
- System Details (note)
- Source (note)
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Call Number
- *MGZIDF 3747
- OCLC
- 922889361
- Title
Dance Forms Workshop 2007-07-24
- 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
Unidentified instructor; unidentified participants
- Event
Recorded July 24, 2007. New York City.
- System Details
Streaming video.
- Original Version
Original format: 1 mini digital videocassette (Mini DV) ; 1/4 in.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site 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.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Cunningham, Merce, choreographer.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation donor.
- Added Title
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Moving image materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*MGZIDF 3747