This video features a studio run-through of Way station, in rehearsal clothes, without musical accompaniment, with a studio version of the decor created for the piece by Charles Long. The run-through lasts 31 min., and the last 6 min. of the video features retakes of excerpts from the piece.
Series statement
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Uniform title
Way station (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Genre/Form
Dance.
Video.
Dance rehearsals.
Call number
*MGZIDF 2966
Note
Note on original container: SR [i.e. stage right].
Access (note)
Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Event (note)
Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, on Apr. 19, 2001.
Biography (note)
Way station premiered Mar. 31, 2001, with a musical score by Takehisa Kosugi.
Linking entry (note)
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Title
Way station [electronic resource] : [rehearsal] / choreography by Merce Cunningham.
Imprint
2001.
Country of producing entity
U.S.
Series
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Performer
Rehearsed by members of Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Cédric Andrieux, Jonah Bokaer, Lisa Boudreau, Ashley Chen, Paige Cunningham, Holley Farmer, Jean Freebury, Koji Minato, Daniel Aguzzoli Roberts, Daniel Squire, Jeannie Steele, Derry Swan, Robert Swinston, Cheryl Therrien and others.
Event
Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, on Apr. 19, 2001.
Biography
Way station premiered Mar. 31, 2001, with a musical score by Takehisa Kosugi.
Linking entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Local note
Former classmark: *MGZIDVD 5-455.
The rehearsal is filmed from an angle that does not show the entire studio. For another recording of the same rehearsal filmed from a different angle (stage left), see *MGZIDF 2967.
Access
Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.