Crises / American Dance Festival Archive film ; choreography, Merce Cunningham ; filmed by Helen Priest Rogers.

First performed at the 13th American Dance Festival in the summer of 1960, Crises was described by Cunningham as "an adventure in togetherness." Choreographed for four women and one man, the dance focused on physical contact between the dancers. The physical entanglements came both through...

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Main Author: Nancarrow, Conlon, 1912-1997 (Composer)
Corporate Author: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Other Authors: Cunningham, Merce (Choreographer, Dancer)
Format: Video
Language:No linguistic content
Published: New York, NY : Merce Cunningham Trust, 1961.
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246 3 |a Crises (1961) 
264 1 |a New York, NY :  |b Merce Cunningham Trust,  |c 1961. 
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500 |a Title from resource description page (viewed March 07, 2017). 
508 |a Music, Conlon Nancarrow. 
511 0 |a Merce Cunningham, Carolyn Brown, Viola Farber, Marilyn Wood, Judith Dunn, dancers. 
518 |o Filmed  |p Palmer Auditorium, Connecticut College  |d August 14, 1961. 
520 |a First performed at the 13th American Dance Festival in the summer of 1960, Crises was described by Cunningham as "an adventure in togetherness." Choreographed for four women and one man, the dance focused on physical contact between the dancers. The physical entanglements came both through holding each other and being held, and through elastic bands, worn around a wrist, an arm, a waist or a leg, which connected the dancers in various positions. Cage noted, "This is a dramatic, though not a narrative, dance concerned with decisive moments in the relationship between a man and four women." Conlon Nancarrow's musical score reinforced the dance's harsh atmosphere with an assortment of jangling rhythms, and Rauschenberg's costumes were leotards in various shades of red, evoking the romance of the piece. This film, shot during rehearsal at the 1961 American Dance Festival at Connecticut College, has historically been the definitive reference for the dance Crises, and is the only motion picture of Cunningham performing the dance with the original cast. The newly restored Crises was digitized from the original black and white 16mm reversal print held in the American Dance Festival Archives, and coupled with an audio restoration of the original recording of Nancarrow's Rhythm Studies for Player Piano. 
546 |a In English. 
546 |a Original language in English. 
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700 1 |a Cunningham, Merce,  |e choreographer,  |e dancer. 
700 1 |a Rogers, Helen Priest,  |e filmmaker. 
700 1 |a Nancarrow, Conlon,  |d 1912-1997,  |e composer.  |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJr3v3FBCMyx3d939P8jYP 
710 2 |a Merce Cunningham Dance Company. 
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