This video features brief excerpts from performances by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at the Paris Opera in Nov. 1992, and an excerpt from the dance film Beach birds for camera, which had its first screening at the Paris Opera on Nov. 17, 1992.
Series statement
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Uniform title
Inventions (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Loosestrife (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Enter (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Genre/Form
Dance.
Video.
Contents
Beach birds for camera / a film by Elliot Caplan; choreography by Merce Cunningham; music by John Cage (1 min.) -- Inventions / choreography by Merce Cunningham; music by John Cage (1 min.) -- Loosestrife / choreography by Merce Cunningham; music by Michael Pugliese (2 min.) -- Enter / choreography by Merce Cunningham; music by David Tudor (2 min.) -- The remaining 9 min. is blank.
Call number
*MGZIDF 3587
Access (note)
Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Event (note)
Videotaped in performance at the Opéra de Paris Garnier, Paris, France, in November, 1992.
Linking entry (note)
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Title
[Merce Cunningham Dance Company at the Paris Opera] [electronic resource] : [excerpts].
Imprint
1992.
Country of producing entity
France.
Series
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Performer
All segments performed by members of Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Helen Barrow, Kimberly Bartosik, Michael Cole, Merce Cunningham, Emma Diamond, Jean Freebury, Frédéric Gafner, Alan Good, Chris Komar, David Kulick, Patricia Lent, Larissa McGoldrick, Randall Sanderson, Robert Swinston, Carol Tietelbaum, Jenifer Weaver.
Event
Videotaped in performance at the Opéra de Paris Garnier, Paris, France, in November, 1992.
Linking entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Local note
For the complete film Beach birds for camera, see *MGZIC 9-4196.
Former classmark: *MGZIDVD 5-358.
Access
Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.