- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 1 streaming video file (32 min) : sound, color
- Summary
- An interview with Nick Cernovitch, the first lighting designer for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, as well as on earlier collaborations with Merce Cunningham and John Cage. Cernovitch begins by discussing his early exposure to and collaboration with Cunningham, Cage and Robert Rauschenberg while a student at Black Mountain College in the 1950s. He then speaks about how he became the first lighting designer for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and the influence of his studies to that point on the commencement of that work. (6:50) He then discusses his observations regarding the similarities and differences between his work for Cunningham and that done for Alvin Aileys company. (15:40) Following this, he discusses his personal experience of Cage and Cunningham, particularly while traveling with them. (18:15) Cernovitch is then asked about his impression of Cunninghams performance style and movement. (20:03) He then speaks about his responses to Cage's musical pieces and staging suggestions, and the ways in which they did not necessarily dovetail well with his lighting schemas and general design aesthetic. (23:49)
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Moving image materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Dance.
- Music.
- Video.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Note
- Title provided by cataloger, based on original container label and research.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.
- Credits (note)
- System Details (note)
- Source (note)
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Call Number
- *MGZIDF 5045
- OCLC
- 950971780
- Title
Interview with Nick Cernovitch 1988-04-21
- Production
1988.
- Country of Producing Entity
United States.
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
video
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Performer
Nick Cernovitch, interviewee; Elliot Caplan, David Vaughan, interviewers.
- Credits
Elliot Caplan, camera.
- Event
Recorded 1988, 21 April. New York City.
- System Details
Streaming video.
- Original Version
Original format: 1 videocassette (Video8) ; 8 mm.
- 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
Cernovich, Nicola, interviewee.
Vaughan, David, 1924- interviewer.
Caplan, Elliot, interviewer.
Caplan, Elliot, camera.
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 5045