- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 1 streaming video file (19 min) : sound, color
- Summary
- The presentation of the 1999 Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival's Dance Award to Merce Cunningham. The exact date is uncertain, but was shortly before Cunningham's death on July 26th of that year. Cunningham and his company had a long association, dating back to 1955, with the institution. An introduction by Ella Baff, executive director of Jacob's Pillow, is followed by a brief documentary especially produced for the event. (5:15) While significant parts of the film are comprised of clips from unidentified previous documentaries, new material with Cunningham is shown in which he discusses his dance company's sometimes prickly but mutually respectful relationship with dancer/choreographer Ted Shawn, founder of Jacob's Pillow. The award is then presented, along with, as Baff notes, "$25,000 that the artist may use in any way they choose." Cunningham was unable to attend in person, but accepts via a pretaped segment, apparently taped during a recent prior visit to Jacob's Pillow. (12:00) Robert Swinston, Cunningham's co-choreographer and "second-in-command", as well as a former scholarship student at Jacob's Pillow, then comes to the stage to accept the award in Cunningham's stead. (15:20)
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Moving image materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Dance.
- Music.
- Video.
- Filmed performances.
- Filmed dance.
- Note
- Title provided by cataloger, based on original container label
- 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 Collection
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Call Number
- *MGZIDF 3735
- OCLC
- 922889618
- Title
Jacob's Pillow Gala 2009 Jacob's Pillow Dance Award : Merce Cunningham Presentation and Acceptance, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Archives.
- Production
2009.
- Country of Producing Entity
United States.
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
video
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Performer
Merce Cunningham, interviewee; Ella Baff, presenter, Robert Stimson, award accepter.
- Event
Recorded 2009. The Berkshires, Massachusetts.
- System Details
Streaming video.
- Original Version
Original format: 1 videodisc (DVD) ; 4 3/4 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 Collection, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Cunningham, Merce, choreographer.
Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972, choreographer.
Swinston, Robert, choreographer.
Baff, Ella, speaker.
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.
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 3735