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Interview with Merce Cunningham [and] John Cage

Title
  1. Interview with Merce Cunningham [and] John Cage [videorecording] / [produced by] Korean Broadcasting System.
Published by
  1. 1984.

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Additional authors
  1. Cunningham, Merce.
  2. Cage, John.
  3. Paik, Nam June, 1932-2006.
  4. Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
  5. Hanʼguk Pangsong Kongsa.
Found in
  1. Merce Cunningham archive.
Description
  1. 1 videodisc (NTSC) (53 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  1. This interview with John Cage and Merce Cunningham was recorded during a tour by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, which gave two performances in Seoul. Questions and answers are translated from and into Korean. Cage and Cunningham discuss their experience in Korea; their views on avant-garde versus conventional dance and music; Cunningham's Events; their philosophies of music and dance and their sources of inspiration; the relationship between music and dance in the performances of the Cunningham company; how they met and began working together; their present activities; Nam June Paik's video artwork, and their collaboration with him on Good morning, Mr. Orwell; Cage's interest in traditional Korean music and Zen Buddhism; differences between oriental and occidental dance. The interview is interspersed with video clips of performances by the Cunningham company, and clips from Good morning, Mr. Orwell.
Series statement
  1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Alternative title
  1. Good morning, Mr. Orwell.
Subject
  1. Cunningham, Merce > Interviews
  2. Cage, John > Interviews
  3. Paik, Nam June, 1932-2006
  4. Artistic collaboration
  5. Arts > Experimental methods
Genre/Form
  1. Video.
  2. Television.
Call number
  1. *MGZIDVD 5-566
Event (note)
  1. Videotaped in TV studio, Seoul, South Korea, and broadcast by Han'guk Pangsong Kongsa [Korean Broadcasting System], Jan. 1984.
Biography (note)
  1. Good morning, Mr. Orwell was a live interactive satellite broadcast on January 1, 1984 between New York (WNET) and Paris (the Centre Pompidou). Nam June Paik created the project, and participants included Laurie Anderson, Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky.
Linking entry (note)
  1. Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Title
  1. Interview with Merce Cunningham [and] John Cage [videorecording] / [produced by] Korean Broadcasting System.
Imprint
  1. 1984.
Country of producing entity
  1. Korea (South).
Series
  1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Performer
  1. Interviewees: Merce Cunningham, John Cage.
Event
  1. Videotaped in TV studio, Seoul, South Korea, and broadcast by Han'guk Pangsong Kongsa [Korean Broadcasting System], Jan. 1984.
Biography
  1. Good morning, Mr. Orwell was a live interactive satellite broadcast on January 1, 1984 between New York (WNET) and Paris (the Centre Pompidou). Nam June Paik created the project, and participants included Laurie Anderson, Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky.
Linking entry
  1. Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Added author
  1. Cunningham, Merce. Interviewee
  2. Cage, John. Interviewee
  3. Paik, Nam June, 1932-2006. Videographer
  4. Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
  5. Hanʼguk Pangsong Kongsa.
Added title
  1. Good morning, Mr. Orwell.
Found in:
  1. Merce Cunningham archive.
Research call number
  1. *MGZIDVD 5-566
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