Merce Cunningham Movies

  • 1964
    Antic Meet

    Antic Meet

    Antic Meet

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    Performed like a series of vaudeville scenes that overlap, Antic Meet consists of ten playful and comedic numbers. The curtains opened with...

    Antic Meet
  • 1984
    Coast Zone

    Coast Zone

    Coast Zone

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    Coast Zone […] explores the use of deep-focus, contrasting background figures (often in motion) with those in the foreground (sometimes in...

    Coast Zone
  • 1970
    Exchange

    Exchange

    Exchange

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    Atlas' 2013 film Exchange is based on the 1978 dance piece of the same name by legendary dancer/choreographer Merce Cunningham. Atlas created the...

    Exchange
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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