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RainForest

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Title
RainForest: [rehearsal]
Additional title: RainForest (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Names
Cunningham, Merce (Creator)
Cunningham, Merce (Choreographer)
Andrieux, Cédric (Dancer)
Bokaer, Jonah (Dancer)
Chen, Ashley (Dancer)
Farmer, Holley (Dancer)
Goggans, Jennifer (Dancer)
Mizuta, Koji (Dancer)
Steele, Jeannie K. (Dancer)
Swan, Derry (Dancer)
Swinston, Robert (Dancer)
Therrien, Cheryl (Dancer)
Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Dancer)
Collection

Merce Cunningham Video Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 2003-01-23
Table of Contents
RainForest (group 1) / rehearsed by Cédric Andrieux, Jonah Bokaer, Holley Farmer, Jeannie Steele, Derry Swan, Robert Swinston (20 min.) -- RainForest (group 2) / rehearsed by Ashley Chen, Jennifer Goggans, Koji Mizuta, Cheryl Therrien and others (19 min.)
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 2973
Shelf locator: *MGZIDVD 5-422 (former)
Topics
Rehearsals
Modern dance
Genres
Filmed dance
Notes
Content: Note on original container: SR [i.e. stage right].
Venue: Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, on Jan. 23, 2003.
Biographical/historical: RainForest, which premiered in 1968, was revived by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for the company's 50th anniversary celebration at the Lincoln Center Festival, July 2002.
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Physical Description
Videocassette
Extent: 1 videocassette (VHS) (39 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Description
This video features two studio run-throughs of RainForest, in rehearsal clothes, without musical accompaniment, by alternate casts.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b16172214
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): d091b260-e878-0131-b0a8-3c075448cc4b
Rights Statement
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  • 2003: Created
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MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "RainForest" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 2003. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d2e63180-e878-0131-4baf-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "RainForest" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 24, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d2e63180-e878-0131-4baf-3c075448cc4b

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (2003). RainForest Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d2e63180-e878-0131-4baf-3c075448cc4b

Wikipedia Citation

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RainForest