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Seeds of Brightness, 1942 (Choreographed
with Jean Erdman)
First Performed: Bennington, VT; 1 Aug 1942
Music: Norman Lloyd
Design: Charlotte Trowbridge
Dancers: Merce Cunningham, Jean Erdman
Credo in US, 1942 (Choreographed with Jean Erdman)
First Performed: Bennington, VT; 1 Aug 1942
Music: John Cage
Design: Charlotte Trowbridge
Dancers: Merce Cunningham, Jean Erdman
Renaissance Testimonials, 1942
First Performed: Bennington, VT; 1 Aug 1942
Music: Maxwell Powers
Design: Charlotte Trowbridge
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Ad Lib, 1942 (Choreographed with Jean Erdman)
First Performed: Bennington, VT; 1 Aug 1942
Music: Gregory Tucker (John Cage 1943)
Design: Charlotte Trowbridge
Dancers: Merce Cunningham, Jean Erdman
Totem Ancestor, 1942
First Performed: New York, NY; 20 Oct 1942
Music: John Cage
Design: Charlotte Trowbridge
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
In the Name of the Holocaust, 1943
First Performed: Chicago, IL; 14 Feb 1943
Music: John Cage
Design: Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Shimmera, 1943
First Performed: Chicago, IL; 14 Feb 1943
Music: John Cage
Design: Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
The Wind Remains, 1943 (Zarzuela in one act after
Federico Garcia Lorca)
First Performed: New York, NY; 30 Mar 1943
Music: Paul Bowles
Design: Oliver Smith, Kermit Love
Dancers: Merce Cunningham, Jean Erdman et al.
Triple-Paced, 1944
First Performed: New York, NY; 5 Apr 1944
Music: John Cage
Design: Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Root of an Unfocus, 1944
First Performed: New York, NY; 5 Apr 1944
Music: John Cage
Design: Merce Cuningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Tossed as it is Untroubled, 1944
First Performed: New York, NY; 5 Apr 1944
Music: John Cage
Design: Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
The Unavailable Memory Of, 1944
First Performed: New York, NY; 5 Apr 1944
Music: John Cage
Design: Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Spontaneous Earth, 1944
First Performed: New York, NY; 5 Apr 1944
Music: John Cage
Design: Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Four Walls, 1944 (A Dance Play by Merce Cunningham)
First Performed: Steamboat Springs, CO; 22 Aug 1944
Music: John Cage
Design: Arch Lauterer
Dancers: Merce Cunningham, Julie Harris et al.
Idyllic Song, 1944
First Performed: Richmond, VA; 20 Nov 1944
Music: Erik Satie, arr. John Cage
Design: Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Mysterious Adventure, 1945
First Performed: New York, NY; 9 Jan 1945
Music: John Cage
Design: after David Hare
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Experiences, 1945
First Performed: New York, NY; 9 Jan 1945
Music: John Cage, Livingston Gearhart
Design: Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
The Encounter, 1946
First Performed: New York, NY; 12 May 1946
Music: John Cage
Design: Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Invocation to Vahakn, 1946
First Performed: New York, NY; 12 May 1946
Music: Alan Hovhaness
Design: Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Fast Blues, 1946
First Performed: New York, NY; 12 May 1946
Music: Baby Dodds
Design: Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
The Princess Zoodilda and her Entourage, 1946
First Performed: New York, NY; 12 May 1946
Music: Alexei Haieff
Design: Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham, Virginia Bosler,
Katherine Litz
The Seasons, 1947
First Performed: New York, NY; 18 May 1947
(2) New York City Ballet;
New York, NY; 22 Jan 1949
Music: John Cage
Design: Isamu Noguchi
Dancers: Ballet Society with Merce Cunningham
The Open Road, 1947
First Performed: New York, NY; 14 Dec 1947
Music: Lou Harrison
Design: Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Dromenon, 1947
First Performed: New York, NY; 14 Dec 1947
Music: John Cage
Design: Sonja Sekula, Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham and group
Dream, 1948
First Performed: Columbia, MO; 8 May 1948
Music: John Cage
Design: Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
The Ruse of Medusa, 1948 (a lyric comedy by Erik Satie,
translated by MC Richards, directed by Arthur Penn)
First Performed: Black Mountain, NC; 14 Aug 1948
Music: Erik Satie
Design: Willem and Elaine de Kooning,
Mary Outten
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
A Diversion, 1948
(also given in quartet and solo versions)
First Performed: Black Mountain, NC; 20 Aug 1948
Music: John Cage
Design: Mary Outten, Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham, Sara Hamill,
Louise Lippold
Orestes, 1948
First Performed: Black Mountain, NC; 20 Aug 1948
Music: John Cage
Design: Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
The Monkey Dances, 1948 (from The Ruse of Medusa)
First Performed: Black Mountain, NC; 20 Aug 1948
Music: Erik Satie
Design: Mary Outten, Richard Lippold,
Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Effusions avant l'heure, 1949 (later called Games; Trio)
First Performed: Paris, 10 June 1949
Music: John Cage
Dancers: Merce Cunningham, Tanaquil LeClerq,
Betty Nichols
Amores, 1949
First Performed: Paris, 10 June 1949
Music: John Cage
Dancers: Tanaquil LeClerq, Merce Cunningham
Duet, 1949
First Performed: Paris, summer 1949
Dancers: Betty Nichols, Milorad Miskovitch
Two Step, 1949
First Performed: New York, NY; 18 Dec 1949
Music: Erik Satie
Design: Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Pool of Darkness, 1950
First Performed: New York, NY; 15 Jan 1950
Music: Ben Weber
Design: Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham, Dorthy Berea,
Mili Churchill, Anneliese Widman
Before Dawn, 1950
First Performed: New York, NY; 15 Jan 1950
Design: Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Waltz, 1950
First Performed: Baton Rouge, LA; 27 June 1950
(2) Solo; New York, NY; 24 Nov 1950
Music: Erik Satie
Dancers: Student Group
Rag-Time Parade, 1950
First Performed: Baton Rouge, LA; 27 June 1950
(2) MCDC; New York, NY; 24 Nov 1950
Music: Erik Satie
Dancers: Student Group
Sixteen Dances for Soloist and Company of Three, 1951
First Performed: Milbrook, NY; 17 Jan 1951
Music: John Cage
Design: Eleanor de Vito, John Cage,
Remy Charlip, Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham, Dorothy Berea,
Mili Churchill, Anneliese Widman
Variation, 1951
First Performed: Seattle, WA; 12 Apr 1951
Music: Morton Feldman
Design: Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Boy Who Wanted to be a Bird, 1951
First Performed: Martha's Vineyard, MA; summer 1951
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Suite of Six Short Dances, 1952
First Performed: Black Mountain, NC; spring 1952
Music: Recorder Pieces, arr. W.P. Jennerjahn
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Excerpts from Symphonie pour un homme seul, 1952
First Performed: Waltham, MA; 14 June 1952
(2) MCDC; Black Mountain, NC; 21 Aug 1953
Music: Pierre Schaeffer with Pierre Henry
Dancers: Merce Cunningham and group
(under the title Collage)
Les Noces, 1952
First Performed: Waltham, MA; 14 June 1952
Music: Igor Stravinsky
Design: Howard Bay
Dancers: Merce Cunningham, Natanya Neumann,
and group
[Theatre Piece], 1952
arr. by John Cage, poetry by Charles Olson and
MC Richards, film by Nicholas Cernovitch
First Performed: Black Mountain, NC; 16(?) Aug 1952
Music: David Tudor
Design: Robert Rauschenberg
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Suite by Chance, 1953
First Performed: Urbana,IL; 24 Mar 1953
Music: Christian Wolff
Design: Remy Charlip
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Solo Suite in Space and Time, 1953
First Performed: Baton Rouge, LA; 23 June 1953
Music: John Cage
Design: Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Demonstration Piece, 1953
First Performed: Baton Rouge, LA; 23 June 1953
Dancers: Student Group
Epilogue, 1953
First Performed: Baton Rouge, LA; 23 June 1953
Music: Erik Satie
Dancers: Student Group
Banjo, 1953
First Performed: Black Mountain, NC; 21 Aug 1953
Music: Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Design: Remy Charlip
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Dime a Dance, 1953
First Performed: Black Mountain, NC; 22 Aug 1953
Music: 19th century piano music,
selected by David Tudor
Design: Remy Charlip
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Septet, 1953
First Performed: Black Mountain, NC; 22 Aug 1953
(2) Rambert Dance Company; Glasgow,
Scotland; 20 Nov 1987
(3) Pacific Northwest Ballet; Seattle, WA;
15 Nov 1989
(4) Repertory Dance Theatre;
Salt Lake City, UT; 9 Mar 1991
Music: Erik Satie
Design: Remy Charlip
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Untitled Solo, 1953
First Performed: Black Mountain, NC; 22 Aug 1953
Music: Christian Wolff
Design: Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Fragments, 1953
First Performed: New York, NY; 30 Dec 1953
Music: Pierre Boulez
Design: Remy Charlip
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Minutiae, 1954
First Performed: Brooklyn, NY; 8 Dec 1954
Music: John Cage
Design: Robert Rauschenberg, Remy Charlip
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Springweather and People, 1955
First Performed: Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; 24 May 1955
Music: Earle Brown
Design: Remy Charlip
(Robert Rauschenberg 1957)
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Galaxy, 1956
First Performed: South Bend, IN; 18 May 1956
Music: Earle Brown
Design: Remy Charlip
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Lavish Escapade, 1956
First Performed: South Bend, IN; 18 May 1956
Music: Christian Wolff
Design: Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Suite for Five in Space and Time, 1956
(later called Suite for Five)
First Performed: South Bend, IN; 18 May 1956
Music: John Cage
Design: Robert Rauschenberg
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Nocturnes, 1956
First Performed: Jacob's Pillow, MA; 11 July 1956
Music: Erik Satie
Design: Robert Rauschenberg
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Labyrinthian Dances, 1957
First Performed: Brooklyn, NY; 30 November 1957
Music: Josef Matthias Hauer
Design: Robert Rauschenberg
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Changeling, 1957
First Performed: Brooklyn, NY; 30 Nov 1957
Music: Christian Wolff
Design: Robert Rauschenberg
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Picnic Polka, 1957
First Performed: Brooklyn, NY; 30 Nov 1957
Music: Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Design: Remy Charlip
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Collage III, 1958
First Performed: Pittsburgh, PA; 21 May 1958
Music: Pierre Schaeffer with Pierre Henry
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Antic Meet, 1958
First Performed: New London, CT; 14 Aug 1958
Music: John Cage
Design: Robert Rauschenberg
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Summerspace, 1958
First Performed: New London, CT; 17 Aug 1958
(2) New York City Ballet; New York, NY;
14 April 1966
(3) Cullbergbaletten; Stockholm;
22 Oct 1967
(4) Boston Ballet; Boston, MA; 7 Nov 1974
(5) Theatre du Silence; La Rochelle;
29 Oct 1976
Music: Morton Feldman
Design: Robert Rauschenberg
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Night Wandering, 1958
First Performed: Stockholm; 5 Oct 1958
(2) 5 by 2 Plus; Anchorage, AL; 3 Sept 1977
Music: Bo Nilsson
Design: Nicholas Cernovitch
(Robert Rauschenberg 1960)
Dancers: Merce Cunningham, Carolyn Brown
From the Poems of White Stone, 1959
First Performed: Urbana, IL; 14 Mar 1959
Music: Chou Wen-Chung; poems by Chiang Kuei
Design: Robert Rauschenberg
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Gambit for Dancers and Orchestra, 1959
First Performed: Urbana, IL; 14 Mar 1959
Music: Ben Johnston
Design: Robert Rauschenberg
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Rune, 1959
First Performed: New London, CT; 14 Aug 1959
Music: Christian Wolff
Design: Robert Rauschenberg
(Mark Lancaster, 1982 & 1995)
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Theatre Piece, 1960
First Performed: New York, NY; 7 Mar 1960
Music: John Cage
Dancers: Merce Cunningham, Carolyn Brown
Crises, 1960
First Performed: New London, CT; 19 Aug 1960
Music: Conlon Nancarrow
Design: Robert Rauschenberg
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Hands Birds, 1960
First Performed: Venice; 24 Sept 1960
Music: Earle Brown
Design: Robert Rauschenberg
Dancers: Carolyn Brown
Waka, 1960
First Performed: Venice; 24 Sept 1960
Music: Toshi Ichiyanagi
Design: Robert Rauschenberg
Dancers: Carolyn Brown
Music Walk with Dancers, 1960
First Performed: Venice; 24 Sept 1960
Music: John Cage
Design: Robert Rauschenberg
Dancers: Merce Cunningham and Carolyn Brown
Suite de Danses, 1961 (a work for television,
directed by Jean Mercure)
First Performed: CBC TV Montreal; 12 June 1961
Music: Serge Garrant
Design: Jasper Johns
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Aeon, 1961
First Performed: Montreal; 5 Aug 1961
Music: John Cage
Design: Robert Rauschenberg
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Field Dances, 1963
First Performed: Los Angeles, CA; 17 July 1963
Music: John Cage
Design: Robert Rauschenberg
(Remy Charlip 1967)
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Story, 1963
First Performed: Los Angeles, CA; 24 July 1963
Music: Toshi Ichiyanagi
Design: Robert Rauschenberg
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Open Session, 1964
First Performed: Hartford, CT; 19 Mar 1964
Design: Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Paired, 1964
First Performed: Hartford, CT; 21 Mar 1964
Music: John Cage
Design: Robert Rauschenberg
Dancers: Merce Cunningham, Viola Farber
Winterbranch, 1964
First Performed: Hartford, CT; 21 Mar 1964
(2) Boston Ballet; Boston, MA; 7 Nov 1974
Music: La Monte Young
Design: Robert Rauschenberg
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Cross Currents, 1964
First Performed: London; 31 July 1964
(2) U S Terpsichore; New York, NY;
3 Oct 1980
(3) Werkcentrum Dans; Rotterdam;
19 Sept 1984
Music: Conlon Nancarrow, arr. John Cage
Design: Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Variations V, 1965
First Performed: New York, NY; 23 July 1965
Music: John Cage
Film: Stan VanDerBeek
TV images: Nam June Paik
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run, 1965
@23 minutes
First Performed: Chicago, IL; 24 Nov 1965
Music: John Cage: Stories from Silence,
A Year from Monday,
and elsewhere (1958)
Lighting: Beverly Emmons
Number of Dancers: 9
Number of Musicians:2 Readers
Specific Requests: 2 Wireless Madonna Mics for Readers
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Place, 1966
First Performed: Saint-Paul de Vence; 6 Aug 1966
Music: Gordon Mumma
Design: Beverly Emmons
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Scramble, 1967
First Performed: Chicago, IL; 25 July 1967
Music: Toshi Ichiyanagi
Design: Frank Stella
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
RainForest, 1968
First Performed: Buffalo, NY; 9 Mar 1968
Music: David Tudor
Design: Andy Warhol
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Walkaround Time, 1968
First Performed: Buffalo, NY; 10 Mar 1968
Music: David Behrman
Design: After Marcel Duchamp
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Assemblage, 1968 (a film for television
directed by Richard Moore)
First Performed: KQED-TV; San Francisco, CA; Oct-Nov 1968
Music: John Cage, David Tudor, Gordon Mumma
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Canfield, 1969
First Performed: Rochester, NY; 4 Mar 1969
Music: Pauline Oliveros
Design: Robert Morris
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Tread, 1970
First Performed: Brooklyn, NY; 5 Jan 1970
Music: Christian Wolff
Design: Bruce Nauman
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Second Hand, 1970
First Performed: Brooklyn, NY; 8 Jan 1970
Music: John Cage
Design: Jasper Johns
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Signals, 1970
First Performed: Paris; 5 June 1970
(2) Ohio Ballet; Akron, OH; 20 Feb 1981
(3) White Oak Dance Project; New York, NY;
1 Mar 1994
(Design: Brice Marden)
Music: David Tudor, Gordon Mumma, John Cage
Design: Richard Nelson, Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Objects, 1970
First Performed: Brooklyn, NY; 10 Nov 1970
Music: Alvin Lucier
Design: Neil Jenney
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
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Chronology (cont.)
Loops, 1971
First Performed: New York, NY; 3 Dec 1971
Music: Gordon Mumma
Design: Jasper Johns
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Landrover, 1972
First Performed: Brooklyn, NY; 1 Feb 1972
Music: John Cage, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor
Design: Jasper Johns
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
TV Rerun, 1972
First Performed: Brooklyn, NY; 2 Feb 1972
Music: Gordon Mumma
Design: Jasper Johns
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Borst Park, 1972
First Performed: Brooklyn, NY; 8 Feb 1972
Music: Christian Wolff
Design: The Company
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Un jour ou deux, 1973
First Performed: Paris; 6 Nov 1973
Music: John Cage
Design: Jasper Johns
Dancers: Paris Opera Ballet
Westbeth, 1974 (a work for video
directed by Charles Atlas and Merce Cunningham)
First Performed: New York, NY; fall, 1974
Music: John Cage
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Exercise Piece, 1975
First Performed: New York, NY; 14 Feb 1975
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Changing Steps, 1975
First Performed: Detroit, MI; 7 Mar 1975
(2) Theatre du Silence; Paris; 17 Apr 1979
(3) Purchase Dance Corps; Purchase, NY;
2 Apr 1987
(4) Video version directed by Elliot Caplan
and Merce Cunningham
(5) UREPCO, Minneapolis, MN; 20 Feb 1993
(6) North Carolina School of the Arts,
Winston-Salem, NC; 13 May 1993
(7) Ohio State University Dance Co.,
Columbus, OH; 23 Feb 1995
Music: John Cage
Design: Charles Atlas (Mark Lancaster, 1978)
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Rebus, 1975
First Performed: Detroit, MI; 8 Mar 1975
Music: David Behrman
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Solo, 1975
First Performed: Detroit, MI; 8 Mar 1975
Music: John Cage
Design: Sonja Sekula
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Sounddance, 1975
First Performed: Detroit, MI; 8 Mar 1975
Music: David Tudor
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Blue Studio: Five Segments, 1975 (videotape
by Merce Cunningham and Charles Atlas)
First Performed: WNET New York, NY; Oct 1975
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Torse, 1976
First Performed: Princeton, NJ; 15 Jan 1976
Music: Maryanne Amacher
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Squaregame, 1976
First Performed: Adelaide, Australia; 24 Mar 1976
Music: Takehisa Kosugi
(2) Squaregame Video, videodance directed by
Charles Atlas and Merce Cunningham,
New York, NY; May 1976
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Video Triangle, 1976 (part of Event for Television,
directed by Merrill Brockway)
First Performed: WNET Nashville, TN; Nov 1976
Music: David Tudor
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Travelogue, 1977
First Performed: New York, NY; 18 Jan 1977
Music: John Cage
Design: Robert Rauschenberg
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Inlets, 1977
First Performed: Seattle, WA; 10 Sept 1977
Music: John Cage
Design: Morris Graves
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Fractions, 1977 (videodance directed by
Charles Atlas and Merce Cunningham)
First Performed: New York, NY; Nov/Dec 1977
(2) Stage Version: Boston, MA; 26 Feb 1977
Music: Jon Gibson
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Exercise Piece I, 1978
First Performed: Merce Cunningham Dance Company,
New York, NY; 25 Mar 1978
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Exercise Piece II, 1978
First Performed: Toronto, Canada; 18 August 1978
Music: John Cage
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Exchange, 1978
First Performed: New York, NY; 27 Sept 1978
Music: David Tudor
Design: Jasper Johns
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Tango, 1978
First Performed: New York, NY; 5 Oct 1978
Music: John Cage
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Locale, 1979 (filmdance directed by Charles Atlas
and Merce Cunningham)
First Performed: New York, NY; Jan/Feb 1979
(2) Stage Version: Paris; 9 October 1979
Music: Takehisa Kosugi
Design: Charles Atlas
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Roadrunners, 1979
First Performed: Durham, North Carolina; 19 July 1979
Music: Yasunao Tone
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Exercise Piece III, 1980
First Performed: New York, NY; 23 Feb 1980
Music: John Cage
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Duets, 1980
First Performed: New York, NY; 26 Feb 1980
(2) American Ballet Theater,
New York, NY; 18 May 1982
Music: John Cage
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Fielding Sixes, 1980
First Performed: London, England; 30 June 1980
(2) Ballet Rambert, Manchester, England;
11 Feb 1983 (Design: Mark Lancaster)
Music: John Cage
Design: Monika Fullemann
(William Anastasi, 1986)
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Channels/Inserts, 1981 (filmdance directed by
Charles Atlas and Merce Cunningham)
First Performed: New York, NY; Jan 1981
(2) Stage Version: New York, NY; 24 Mar 1981
Music: David Tudor
Design: Charles Atlas
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
10's with Shoes, 1981
First Performed: New York, NY; 17 Mar 1981
Music: Martin Kalve
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Gallopade, 1981
First Performed: London, England; 10 June 1981
Music: Takehisa Kosugi
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Trails, 1982
First Performed: New York, NY; 16 Mar 1982
Music: John Cage
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Quartet, 1982
First Performed: Paris, France; 27 October 1982
Music: David Tudor
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Coast Zone, 1983 (filmdance directed by
Charles Atlas and Merce Cunningham)
First Performed: New York, NY; Jan 1983
(2) Stage Version: New York, NY;
18 Mar 1983
Music: Larry Austin
Design: Mark Lancaster, Charles Atlas
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Inlets 2, 1983
First Performed: Lille, France; 26 Oct 1983
(2) GRCOP, Paris, France; 3 Dec 1983
(3) Concert Dance of Boston,
Cambridge, MA; 13 Apr 1986
(4) Sharir Dance Co., Austin, TX;
11 Mar 1988
(5) Rotterdanse Dansgroep, Rotterdam,
Holland; 9 Feb 1991
(6) Charleroi/Danses, Charleroi, Belgium;
13 Dec 1991
(7) Maggio Danza, Florence, Italy;
6 Dec 1994
Music: John Cage
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Roaratorio, 1983
First Performed: Lille, France; 26 Oct 1983
Music: John Cage
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Pictures, 1984
First Performed: New York, NY; 6 Mar 1984
Music: David Behrman
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Doubles, 1984
First Performed: Durham, NC; 28 June 1984
(2) Rambert Dance Co., Birmingham,
England; 30 Jan 1990
Music: Takehisa Kosugi
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Phrases, 1984
First Performed: Angers, France; 7 Dec 1984
Music: David Tudor
Design: William Anastasi, Dove Bradshaw
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Deli Commedia, 1985 (videodance directed by Elliot Caplan)
First Performed: New York, NY; Jan 1985
Music: Pat Richter
Design: Dove Bradshaw
Dancers: Student group
Native Green, 1985
@15 minutes
First Performed: New York, NY; 12 Mar 1985
Music: John King, Gliss in Sighs
Décor,
Lighting, and Costumes: William Anastsi
Lighting reconstruction: Aaron Copp
Number of Dancers: 6
Number of Musicians: 1
Type of Music: Electronic
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Arcade, 1985
First Performed: Pennsylvania Ballet, Philadelphia, PA;
11 Sept 1985
(2) Merce Cunningham Dance Company,
Philadelphia, PA; 14 Nov 1985
Music: John Cage
Design: Dove Bradshaw
Dancers: Pennsylvania Ballet
Grange Eve, 1986
First Performed: New York, NY; 18 Mar 1986
Music: Takehisa Kosugi
Design: William Anastasi
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Points in Space, 1986 (videodance directed by
Elliot Caplan and Merce Cunningham)
First Performed: London, England; May 1986
(2) Stage Version: New York, NY;
10 Mar 1987
(3) Paris Opera Ballet, Paris, France;
6 June 1990
Music: John Cage
Design: William Anastasi
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Fabrications, 1987
@ 35 minutes
First Performed: Minneapolis, MN; 21 Feb 1987
Music: Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta,
Short Waves
Décor and Costumes: Dove Bradshaw
Lighting: Josh Johnson
Number of Dancers: 15
Number of Musicians:2
Type of Music: Electronic
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Shards, 1987
First Performed: New York, NY; 4 Mar 1987
Music: David Tudor
Design: William Anastasi
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Carousal, 1987
First Performed: Jacob's Pillow, MA; 18 Aug 1987
Music: Takehisa Kosugi
Design: Dove Bradshaw
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Eleven, 1988
First Performed: New York, NY; 9 Mar 1988
Music: Robert Ashley
Design: William Anastasi
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Five Stone, 1988
First Performed: Berlin, Germany; 16 June 1988
Music: John Cage, David Tudor
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Five Stone Wind, 1988
First Performed: Avignon, France; 30 July 1988
Music: John Cage, Takehisa Kosugi, David Tudor
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Cargo X, 1989
First Performed: Austin, TX; 27 Jan 1989
Music: Takehisa Kosugi
Design: Dove Bradshaw
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Field and Figures, 1989
First Performed: Minneapolis, MN; 17 Feb 1989
Music: Ivan Tcherepnin
Design: Kristin Jones, Andrew Ginzel
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
August Pace, 1989
First Performed: Berkeley, CA; 22 Sept 1989
(2) Paris Opera Ballet (excerpts),
Paris, France; 23 Oct 1990
Music: Michael Pugliese
Design: Sergei Bugaev (Afrika)
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Inventions, 1989
First Performed: Berkeley, CA; 23 Sept 1989
Music: John Cage
Design: Carl Kielblock
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Polarity, 1990
First Performed: New York, NY; 20 Mar 1990
Music: David Tudor
Design: William Anastasi, Merce Cunningham,
Carl Kielblock
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Neighbors, 1991
First Performed: New York, NY; 13 Mar 1991
Music: Takehisa Kosugi
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Trackers, 1991
First Performed: New York, NY; 20 Mar 1991
Music: Emmanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta
Design: Dove Bradshaw
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Beach Birds, 1991
First Performed: Zurich, Switzerland; 20 June 1991
Music: John Cage
Design: Marsha Skinner
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Beach Birds For Camera, 1992 (a 35mm film
directed by Elliot Caplan)
First Performed: New York, New York; Dec 1991
Music: John Cage
Design: Marsha Skinner
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Loosestrife, 1991
First Performed: Paris, France; 10 Sept 1991
Music: Michael Pugliese
Design: Carl Kielblock
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Change of Address, 1992
First Performed: Austin, TX; 31 Jan 1992
Music: Walter Zimmermann
Design: Marsha Skinner
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Touchbase, 1992
First Performed: Rambert Dance Co., London; 20 June 1992
(2) Merce Cunningham Dance Company,
New York, NY; 10 Mar 1993
Music: Michael Pugliese
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Rambert Dance Company
Enter, 1992
First Performed: Paris, France; 17 Nov 1992
Music: David Tudor
Design: John Cage, Marsha Skinner, Elliot Caplan
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Doubletoss, 1993
First Performed: Minneapolis, MN; 26 Feb 1993
Music: Takehisa Kosugi
Design: Merce Cunningham, Suzanne Gallo,
Aaron Copp
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
CRWDSPCR, 1993
First Performed: Durham, NC; 15 July 1993
Music: John King
Design: Mark Lancaster
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Breakers, 1994
First Performed: New York, NY; 9 Mar 1994
Music: John Driscoll
(2) Boston Ballet, Washington, DC;
22 Mar 1994
Design: Mary Jean Kenton
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Ocean, 1994
First Performed: Brussels, Belgium; 18 May 1994
Music: Andrew Culver, David Tudor
Design: Marsha Skinner
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Ground Level Overlay, 1995
@31 minutes
First Performed: New York, NY; 8 Mar 1995
Music: Stuart Dempster, Underground Overlays
Décor: Leonardo Drew
Costumes: Suzanne Gallo
Lighting: Aaron Copp
Number of Dancers: 14
Number of Musicians: 4
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Windows, 1995
First Performed: Montpellier, France; 23 June 1995
Music: Emmanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta
Design: After John Cage, Suzanne Gallo,
Aaron Copp
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Tune In / Spin Out, 1996
First Performed: Austin , Texas; 31 January 1996
Music: John Cage
Design: Suzanne Gallo and Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Installations, 1996
First Performed: Seattle, WA; 2 May 1996
Music: Trimpin
Décor: Video installation by Elliot Caplan
Lighting: Elliot Caplan, with Kelly Atallah
Costumes: Elliot Caplan and Suzanne Gallo
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Rondo, 1996
First Performed: Ludwigsburg, Germany; 2 June 1996
Music: John Cage
Design: Suzanne Gallo and Merce Cunningham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Scenario, 1997
First Performed: Brooklyn, NY; 14 October 1997
Music: Takehisa Kosugi
Design: Rei Kawakubo
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Pond Way, 1998
First Performed: Paris, France; 13 January 1998
Music: Brian Eno
Design: Roy Lichtenstein
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
BIPED, 1999
@ 45 minutes
First Performed: Berkeley, CA; 23 April 1999
Music: Gavin Bryars, Biped
Décor: Paul Kaiser Shelley Eshkar
Costumes: Suzanne Gallo
Lighting: Aaron Copp
Number of Dancers: 14
Number of Musicians: 3-5
Type of Music: Electronic-acoustic
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Occasion Piece, 1999
First Performed: New York, NY; 21 July 1999
Music: John Cage
Design: After Marcel Duchamp
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
and Mikhail Baryshnikov
Interscape (2000)
@ 43 minutes
First Performed: Jonh F. Kennedy Center,
Washington, DC; 6 April 2000
Music: John Cage, 108 (1991)
and/or One8 (1991)
Décor and Costumes: Robert Rauschenberg,
Interscape Mirage
Lighting: Aaron Copp
Number of Dancers: 14
Number of Musicians: 1, or full orchestra
Type of Music: Acoustic
Way Station, 2001
First Performed: City Center, New York, NY;
31 March 2001
Music: Takehisa Kosugi
Design: Charles Long, Aaron Copp, James Hall
Dancers: Merce Cunningam Dance Company
Loose Time, 2002
@30 minutes
First Performed: Berkeley, CA, 1 February 2002
Music: Christian Wolff, Moving Spaces
Décor and Costumes: Terry Winters, Vortex Street
Lighting: Aaron Copp
Number of Dancers: 15
Number of Musicians: 3
Type of Music: Electro-acoustic
Fluid Canvas, 2002
@ 35 minutes
First Performed: Barbican Center, London, UK,
10 September 2002
Music: John King, Iongtermparking
Décor: Marc Downie, Paul Kaiser,
Shelley Eshkar, Lifelike
Costumes: James Hall
Lighting: James F. Ingalls
Number of Dancers: 15
Number of Musicians:1
Type of Music: Electronic
Split Sides, 2003
First Performed: BAM, Brooklin, NY 14 October 2003
Music: Radiohead & Sigur Ros
Décor: Catherine Yass, Robert Heishman
Costumes: James Hall
Lighting: James F. Ingalls
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Views on Stage, 2004
Music: John Cage, ASLSP and Music For Two
Décor: Ernesto Neto
Costumes: James Hall
Lighting: Josh Johnson
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
eyeSpace, 2006
Version 1:
First Performed: Joyce Theatre, New York, NY,
10 October 2006
Music: Mikel Rouse
Décor: Henry Samelson
Costumes: Henry Samelson
Version 2:
First Performed: Miami, FL, 23 February 2007
Music: David Behrman
Décor: Daniel Arsham
Costumes: Daniel Arsham
Version 3:
First Performed: Cedar Falls, IA 19 March 2007
Music: Annea Lockwood
Décor: Daniel Arsham
Costumes: Daniel Arsham
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
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