This video features a run-through of Ocean, in rehearsal clothes, without musical accompaniment.
Series statement
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Uniform title
Ocean (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Genre/Form
Dance.
Video.
Dance rehearsals.
Call number
*MGZIDF 2941
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, Nov. 6, 1997.
Biography (note)
Ocean premiered at the Cirque Royal in Brussels on May 18, 1994, with a musical score by David Tudor and Andrew Culver, based on ideas of John Cage. Ocean was in performed in the repertory of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1997.
Linking entry (note)
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Title
Ocean [electronic resource] : [rehearsal] / choreography by Merce Cunningham.
Imprint
1997.
Country of producing entity
U.S.
Series
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Performer
Rehearsed by members of Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Lisa Boudreau, Thomas Caley, Michael Cole, Maydelle Fason, Jean Freebury, Foofwa d'Imobilité [aka Frédéric Gafner], Matthew Mohr, Banu Ogan, Jared Phillips, Jeannie Steele, Derry Swan, Robert Swinston, Cheryl Therrien, and others.
Event
Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, Nov. 6, 1997.
Biography
Ocean premiered at the Cirque Royal in Brussels on May 18, 1994, with a musical score by David Tudor and Andrew Culver, based on ideas of John Cage. Ocean was in performed in the repertory of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1997.
Linking entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Local note
Former classmark: *MGZIDVD 5-444.
Access
Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.