Roaratorio. Rehearsed by members of Merce Cunningham Dance Company, including Susan Emery, Lise Friedman, Alan Good, Neil Greenberg, Catherine Kerr, Chris Komar, Judy Lazaroff, Joseph Lennon, Rob Remley, Robert Swinston, Megan Walker, and others.
Exercise 3. Rehearsed by members of Merce Cunningham Dance Company, including Lise Friedman, Catherine Kerr, Joseph Lennon, Neil Greenberg, and others.
Event
Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, date unknown, 1983.
Biography
Roaratorio, subtitled An Irish circus on Finnegan's Wake, premiered Oct. 26, 1983 in Lille, France, with a musical score by John Cage.
Linking entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Local note
Former classmark: *MGZIDVD 5-956.
The rehearsal is shot from an angle that does not show the entire studio. For a run-through of Roaratorio filmed from another angle (stage right) see *MGZIDVD 5-955.
Transferred from original 1/2 in. open reel by Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation.
Access
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