Merce Cunningham Movies

  • 1992
    Beach Birds for Camera

    Beach Birds for Camera

    Beach Birds for Camera

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    Cunningham said of his choreography for "Beach Birds", “It is all based on individual physical phrasing. The dancers don’t have to be...

    Beach Birds for Camera
  • 1966
    John Cage

    John Cage

    John Cage

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    Experimental composer John Cage tours Europe with The Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1966.

    John Cage
  • 1980
    Locale

    Locale

    Locale

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    Locale was designed to explore the possibilities of moving cameras and moving dancers in a film. Filmed at the Merce Cunningham Studio, Westbeth, New...

    Locale
  • 2023
    August Pace 1989-2019

    August Pace 1989-2019

    August Pace 1989-2019

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    Thirty years after the world premiere of legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham's August Pace, the original cast members gather in a New York City...

    August Pace 1989-2019
  • 1964
    Night Wandering

    Night Wandering

    Night Wandering

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    Paradoxically described by Walter Sorell as "a tender lullaby of love" and by Richard Buckle as "cold and menacing, the courtship of the Macbeths,"...

    Night Wandering
  • 1970
    Changing Steps

    Changing Steps

    Changing Steps

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    Merce Cunningham choreographed “Changing Steps” in 1973. In its original form “Changing Steps” consisted of a solo dance for...

    Changing Steps