This video features a run-through of Rune, in rehearsal clothes, without musical accompaniment. Chris Komar, off-camera, gives cues and speaks the counts for some sections as they are rehearsed. The run-through lasts 27 min. The last 3 min. of the disc contain retakes of short sections of the piece.
Series statement
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Uniform title
Rune (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Genre/Form
Dance.
Video.
Dance rehearsals.
Call number
*MGZIDF 2935
Note
Note on original container: SL [i.e. stage left].
Access (note)
Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Event (note)
Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, on Apr. 6, 1995.
Biography (note)
Rune, which premiered in 1959, with a musical score by Christian Wolff, was revived by Merce Cunningham Dance Company in Mar. 1995.
Linking entry (note)
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Title
Rune [electronic resource] : [rehearsal] / choreography by Merce Cunningham.
Imprint
1995.
Country of producing entity
U.S.
Series
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Performer
Rehearsed by members of Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Kimberly Bartosik, Frédéric Gafner, China Laudisio, Banu Ogan, Glen Rumsey, Jeannie Steele.
Event
Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, on Apr. 6, 1995.
Biography
Rune, which premiered in 1959, with a musical score by Christian Wolff, was revived by Merce Cunningham Dance Company in Mar. 1995.
Linking entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Local note
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 right), see *MGZIDF 2934.
Former classmark: *MGZIDVD 5-411.
Access
Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.