This video features two studio run-throughs of Suite for five, in rehearsal clothes, without musical accompaniment, by alternate casts.
Series statement
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Uniform title
Suite for five (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Genre/Form
Dance.
Video.
Dance rehearsals.
Contents
Suite for five (group 2) / rehearsed by Jonah Bokaer, Ashley Chen, Paige Cunningham, Holley Farmer, Jennifer Goggans (25 min.) -- Suite for five (group 1) / rehearsed by Cédric Andrieux, Daniel Roberts, Jeannie Steele, Derry Swan, Cheryl Therrien (25 min.)
Call number
*MGZIDF 2970
Note
Note on original container: SR [i.e. stage right].
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 Nov. 26, 2002 (group 2) and Jan. 23, 2003 (group 1).
Biography (note)
Suite for five, which premiered in 1956, was revived by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for the company's 50th anniversary celebration at the Lincoln Center Festival, July 2002.
Linking entry (note)
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Title
Suite for five [electronic resource] : [rehearsal] / choreography by Merce Cunningham.
Imprint
2002-2003.
Country of producing entity
U.S.
Series
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Performer
Rehearsed by members of Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Cédric Andrieux, Jonah Bokaer, Ashley Chen, Paige Cunningham, Holley Farmer, Jennifer Goggans, Daniel Aguzzoli Roberts, Jeannie Steele, Derry Swan, Cheryl Therrien.
Event
Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, on Nov. 26, 2002 (group 2) and Jan. 23, 2003 (group 1).
Biography
Suite for five, which premiered in 1956, was revived by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for the company's 50th anniversary celebration at the Lincoln Center Festival, July 2002.
Linking entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Local note
Former classmark: *MGZIDVD 5-419.
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 left), see *MGZIDF 2971.
Access
Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.