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Torse: [rehearsal]

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Merce Cunningham Video Archive

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Torse

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Title
Torse: [rehearsal]
Additional title: Torse (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Names
Cunningham, Merce (Creator)
Cunningham, Merce (Choreographer)
Kovich, Robert (Dancer)
Komar, Chris (Dancer)
Roess-Smith, Julie. (Dancer)
Ensminger, Morgan (Dancer)
Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Dancer)
Collection

Merce Cunningham Video Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1976-02
Date Created: 1975-04
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 1959
Topics
Modern dance
Rehearsals
Genres
Filmed dance
Notes
Content: Note on original container: Downstage.
Venue: Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, Feb. 1976.
Biographical/historical: Torse premiered Jan. 13, 1976.
Content: With: Sounddance (26 min.) Total time: 79 min.
Physical Description
Videocassette
Extent: 1 videocassette (VHS) (79 min.) : silent, black and white ; 1/2 in.
Description
This video features a studio run-through of Torse, without music. The remainder of the video features a performance of Sounddance. For another video of the Sounddance performance, see *MGZIDF 1950.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b16140531
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 2834fca0-e873-0131-1c6c-3c075448cc4b
Rights Statement
This item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).

Item timeline of events

  • 1975: Created
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Torse" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1975. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2bb77090-e873-0131-c581-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Torse" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 22, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2bb77090-e873-0131-c581-3c075448cc4b

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1975). Torse Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2bb77090-e873-0131-c581-3c075448cc4b

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2bb77090-e873-0131-c581-3c075448cc4b | title= (moving image) Torse, (1975)|author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=November 22, 2024 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

Torse