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NEW! Forty minutes and eleven seconds

2011, LP

$20.00

"Forty minutes and eleven seconds" is a limited-edition vinyl LP created for the remaining performances of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company during their precedent-setting Legacy Tour.  The record contains never-before-heard recordings of works by MCDC's Music Committee, Takehisa Kosugi, David Behrman, John King, and Christian Wolff and MCDC's Music Coordinator, Jesse Stiles.  These pieces were recorded live over the course of the Legacy Tour using a variety of acoustic and electronic instruments.  "Forty minutes and eleven seconds" is pressed on translucent red vinyl in a hand-numbered edition of 500.

 

 

Music for Merce

(1952-2009)
10 CD Boxed Set

$139.99

Spanning six decades from the early 1950s onward, these recordings capture the breadth of the Cunningham repertory and the rich diversity of Cunningham’s musical collaborations. This is a document of enormous historical import that will be a revelation to both listeners and scholars interested in the evolution of American experimental music.

Available through New World Records

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Merce Cunningham Dance Company:

Robert Rauschenberg Collaborations

2011, DVD                       

$60.00

Suite for Five (25:58), Summerspace (22:05), Interscape (47:05)

In 1954, Robert Rauschenberg became the Resident Designer to the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, a position he held for ten years. During that time these friends and collaborators, along with musician John Cage, created some of the most iconoclastic artworks of the 20th century. This three-DVD set showcases these great artists' work, along with the work of another, filmmaker Charles Atlas.

DVD produced by ARTPIX

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Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years, by
David Vaughan
HARDCOVER $75.00

Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years, assembled by the archivist of Merce Cunningham's world-renowned U.S. company, records and analyzes Cunningham's work process and documents the provenance of his modern dance classics.

Merce Cunningham: Fifty Forward, by
David Vaughan
CD-ROM $10.00

Fifty Forward is an update to David Vaughan's book Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years. This supplement is available digitally in the form of a CD-ROM and also includes an interview between David Vaughan and Merce Cunningham.

Cunningham Dance Technique: Elementary Level
1985, 35 minutes, color, DVD $25.00

Directed by Merce Cunningham and Elliot Caplan. Commentary by Merce Cunningham. DVD produced by the Cunningham Dance Foundation.
DVD is ALL REGIONS NTSC
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Cunningham Dance Technique: Intermediate Level
1987, 55 minutes, color, DVD $25.00

Directed by Merce Cunningham and Elliot Caplan. Commentary by Merce Cunningham. DVD produced by the Cunningham Dance Foundation.
DVD is ALL REGIONS NTSC.



Points In Space
1986, 55 minutes, color, DVD $30.00

Choreography by Merce Cunningham. Directed by Elliot Caplan and Merce Cunningham. Set by Bill Anastasi. Costumes by Dove Bradshaw. DVD produced by Bob Lockyer (BBC-TV) and the Cunningham Dance Foundation.
DVD is ALL REGIONS NTSC.

 

Cage/Cunningham
1991, 95 minutes, color, DVD $30.00

Directed by Elliot Caplan. Choreography by Merce Cunningham. Music by John Cage. Writer: David Vaughan. DVD produced by the Cunningham Dance Foundation in association with La SEPT.
DVD is ALL REGIONS NTSC.

 

 

Split Sides: MCDC

2009, 120 minutes,

color, DVD $30.00

Directed by Charles Atlas. Choreography by Merce Cunningham. Music by Sigur Rós and Radiohead. DVD Produced by the Cunningham Dance Foundation and ARTPIX.

DVD is ALL REGIONS NTSC.

 

Chance and Circumstance, by Carolyn Brown

$40.00

This memoir is an intimate chronicle of a crucial era in modern dance: the story of Brown's own remarkable career, of the formative years of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and of the two brilliant artists at its center - Merce Cunningham and John Cage.

       

Other Animals: Drawings and Journals

HARDCOVER, $40.00

Introduction by Merce Cunningham. Afterword by David Vaughan.

Collection of works on paper by Merce Cunningham

 

   


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