Merce Cunningham Movies

John Cage’s original concept of Ocean, in 1991, was for a dance to be performed in a circular space, with the audience surrounding the dancers,...

“Westbeth” was Cunningham’s first video collaboration with Charles Atlas, and the first video project to be made at the Merce...

This work was a dance shot for film at the Cunningham studio. Staging for Channels/Inserts was divided among the main studio, the small studio and...

The décor for BIPED is an exploration into the possibilities of motion capture technology. The movements (but not the physical appearances) of...

A multi-media event with choreographed dance, mobile decor, variable lighting, multiple film projection, and live-electronic music activated by the...

Locale was designed to explore the possibilities of moving cameras and moving dancers in a film. Filmed at the Merce Cunningham Studio, Westbeth, New...