Merce Cunningham

A seminal figure of the twentieth-century avant-garde, American choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) engaged the boundaries of dance for more than seventy years. Emerging from and expanding upon traditions of theater, classical ballet and modern dance, Cunningham radically rearticulated the semiotics of the dancing body and created a distinctive language that survives him. Throughout his long career, Cunningham collaborated with a number of filmmakers and video artists, including Charles Atlas, on a series of pioneering dance pieces created specifically for the camera.   full biography

Titles

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1964, 27:09 min, b&w, sound, 16 mm film on video
 
1964, 13 min, b&w, sound, 16 mm film on video
 
1964, 20:10 min, b&w, sound
 
1966, 49:05, b&w, sound, 16 mm film on video
 
1967, 81 min, b&w, sound, 16 mm film on video
 
1968, 58:03 min, color, sound, 16 mm film on video
 
1973, 48:04 min, color, sound, 16 mm film on HD video
 
1976, 25:46 min, b&w, sound
 
1978, 32:59 min, color and b&w, sound
 
1978, 29:54 min, color, sound, 16 mm film on HD video
 
1978/2013, 40:19 min, color, sound, 16 mm film on HD video
 
1982, 32:11 min, color, sound, 16 mm film on HD video
 
1983, 27:07 min, color, sound, 16 mm film on HD video
 
1986, 55:35 min, color, sound
 
1987, 56:04 min, color, sound
 
1991, 95:55 min, color and b&w, sound
 
1992, 30:01 min, color and b&w, sound
 
1996, 52:12 min, color, sound
 
1998, 23:48 min, color, sound
 
2000, 7:31 min, color, sound
 
2001, 46:41 min, color, sound
 
2005, 48:14 min, color, sound
 
2005, 42:03 min, color, sound
 
2008, 29:37 min, color, sound
 
2008, 25:29 min, color, sound
 
2010, 100:28 min, color, sound, HD video
 
 

Titles with or about Merce Cunningham

 
 
1991, 95:55 min, color and b&w, sound
 
1987, 56:04 min, color, sound
 
 

See also

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1973, 28:30 min, color, sound
 
1988, 47 min, color, sound
 
1984, 38 min, color, sound
 
1975-76, 15:38 min, color, sound