Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Cunningham, Merce
2. Burns, Louise Ann
3. Friedman, Lise
4. Good, Alan
5. Greenberg, Neil, 1959-
6. Kerr, Catherine
7. Komar, Chris
8. Lennon, Joseph
9. Remley, Rob
10. Swinston, Robert
11. Walker, Megan
12. Quinn, Susan
13. Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Found in

1. Merce Cunningham archive.

Description

1. 1 streaming video file (105 min.) : sd., col.

Summary

1. This video features studio run-throughs of Doubles and Pictures, in rehearsal clothes, without musical accompaniment. The remainder of the video features a dress rehearsal of Squaregame filmed in 1976.

Series statement

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection

Uniform title

1. Doubles (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
2. Pictures (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Genre/Form

1. Dance.
2. Video.
3. Dance rehearsals.

Contents

1. Doubles A / rehearsed by Louise Burns, Lise Friedman, Alan Good, Neil Greenberg, Rob Remley, Megan Walker, Susan Quinn Young (26 min.) -- Doubles B / rehearsed by Catherine Kerr, Chris Komar, Robert Swinston and others (26 min.) -- Pictures / rehearsed by Louise Burns, Lise Friedman, Alan Good, Neil Greenberg, Catherine Kerr, Chris Komar, Joseph Lennon, Rob Remley, Robert Swinston, Megan Walker, Susan Quinn Young and others (27 min.)

Call number

1. *MGZIDF 1978

Note

1. Note on original container: Doubles A&B, stage right.

With (note)

1. On reel with: Squaregame, dress rehearsal (27 min.). See *MGZIDVD 5-959.

Access (note)

1. Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped in rehearsals at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, Aug. 1984.

Biography (note)

1. Doubles premiered June 28, 1984 in Durham, N.C., with a musical score by Takehisa Kosugi. Pictures premiered Mar 6., 1984 in New York City, with a musical score by David Behrmann.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.

Title

1. Doubles [and] Pictures [electronic resource] : [rehearsals] / choreography by Merce Cunningham.

Imprint

1. 1984.

Country of producing entity

1. U.S.

Series

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection

With:

1. On reel with: Squaregame, dress rehearsal (27 min.). See *MGZIDVD 5-959.

Performer

1. Rehearsed by members of Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Louise Burns, Lise Friedman, Alan Good, Neil Greenberg, Catherine Kerr, Chris Komar, Joseph Lennon, Rob Remley, Robert Swinston, Megan Walker, Susan Quinn Young and others.

Event

1. Videotaped in rehearsals at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, Aug. 1984.

Biography

1. Doubles premiered June 28, 1984 in Durham, N.C., with a musical score by Takehisa Kosugi. Pictures premiered Mar 6., 1984 in New York City, with a musical score by David Behrmann.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.

Local note

1. Former classmark: *MGZIDVD 5-959.
2. Both versions of Doubles are filmed from an angle that does not show the entire studio. For another recording of the run-throughs of Doubles, filmed from a different angle, see *MGZIDF 1979.
3. Transferred from original 1/2 in. open reels by Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation. Poor picture quality.

Access

1. Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Cunningham, Merce, choreographer.
2. Burns, Louise Ann, dancer.
3. Friedman, Lise, dancer.
4. Good, Alan, dancer.
5. Greenberg, Neil, 1959- dancer.
6. Kerr, Catherine, dancer.
7. Komar, Chris, dancer.
8. Lennon, Joseph, dancer.
9. Remley, Rob, dancer.
10. Swinston, Robert, dancer.
11. Walker, Megan, dancer.
12. Quinn, Susan, dancer.
13. Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Added title

1. Doubles (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
2. Pictures (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Found in:

1. Merce Cunningham archive.

Research call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-959 (former)