This video features run-throughs of Slouch and Deli commedia, in rehearsal clothes, without musical accompaniment.
Series statement
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Genre/Form
Dance.
Video.
Dance rehearsals.
Contents
Slouch [two run-throughs] / rehearsed by Kimberly Bartosik, Lisa Boudreau, Michael Cole, Frédéric Gafner, China Laudisio, Matthew Mohr, Banu Ogan, Jared Phillips, Jenifer Weaver and others (3 min.) -- Deli commedia [version for four dancers] / rehearsed by Lisa Boudreau, China Laudisio, Matthew Mohr, Jared Phillips (7 min.)
Call number
*MGZIDF 2937
Note
Note on original container: SL [i.e. stage left].
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 July 13, 1995.
Biography (note)
Slouch was included in Mini-event, peformed as part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's repertory in 1995. The version of Deli commedia rehearsed here is a shortened version for four dancers; Deli commedia, which premiered in 1985, was originally an eighteen-minute piece for five dancers.
Linking entry (note)
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Title
Slouch [and] Deli commedia [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, Lisa Boudreau, Michael Cole, Frédéric Gafner, China Laudisio, Matthew Mohr, Banu Ogan, Jared Phillips, Jenifer Weaver and others.
Event
Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, on July 13, 1995.
Biography
Slouch was included in Mini-event, peformed as part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's repertory in 1995. The version of Deli commedia rehearsed here is a shortened version for four dancers; Deli commedia, which premiered in 1985, was originally an eighteen-minute piece for five dancers.
Linking entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Local note
Former classmark: *MGZIDVD 5-413.
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 2936.
Access
Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.