- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (24 minutes) : digital, stereo
- Summary
- Begins abruptly; host and interviewer Christopher Cook introduces Merce Cunningham and his career; Merce Cunningham speaks about his Events including his re-use of past choreography and chance operations to arrange the unique order of a given Event; his use of stage space and how this allows for his [Merce Cunningham Dance] Company to perform in unique spaces; how movement itself, without added narrative, is of interest to him; Marcel Duchamp's idea that "art is completed by the spectator" and his interest in open interpretation of his works; his interest in using "contemporary terms" in his work, especially in selecting his collaborators; his use of live electronics as the music for his work and how this impacts his dancers; how he gets initial inspiration for a dance from movement or seeing movement in the world; testing movement ideas out through teaching them to his dancers and watching how they respond; the individual rhythmic tendencies of dancers as well as his use of a stopwatch to organize the tempo and timing of movement phrases; videotaping his rehearsals; his interest in exploring movement over creating a style; how dancers develop artistry and his admiration of Fred Astaire; why he selects his Company dancers from classes rather than audition; briefly, his own thoughts on continuing to dance as an aging dancer.
- Uniform Title
- Third ear (Radio program : BBC Radio 3)
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Radio interviews.
- Note
- Host Christopher Cook interviews Merce Cunningham for broadcast on March 20, 1989 by BBC Radio 3, on its series the Third ear, produced by Fiona McLean; on the occasion of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company performances of Events at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, in March, 1989.
- Title, date and location provided by cataloger based on handwritten note on original cassette and container, and audition.
- Handwritten note on original cassette: "Third Ear 20.03.89". Handwritten note on original container: "Third Ear ; Merce Cunningham, Christopher Cook ; Producer: Fiona McLean ; Room: 8406 BH Ext. 5214 ; 8LN911/89FJ3121 ; Radio 3 ; TX: 20.03.89 ; Due: 24'11" ".
- Sound quality is good.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Source (note)
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Call Number
- *LTC-A 1461
- OCLC
- 932894773
- Author
Cunningham, Merce, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Merce Cunningham : on Third ear (Radio program), BBC Radio 3, 1989-03-20.
- Publisher
March 20, 1989.
- Playing Time
002418
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Broadcast in, London, England, 1989 March 20.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Original Version
Archival original: (1 audio cassette (24 minutes) : analog) in *LTC-A 1461.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Local Note
Transferred from original analog cassette by George Blood Audio on March 26, 2015.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
McLean, Fiona, radio producer.
Cook, Christopher, host.
BBC Radio 3, broadcaster.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Third ear (Radio program : BBC Radio 3)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LTC-A 1461