Carolyn Brown

Observational documentary about the Merce Cunningham Dance Company rehearsing throughout the summer of 1967 in New York.

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

A feature length film from acclaimed dance choreographer Merce Cunningham.

A history of the work of Merce Cunningham.

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 is a duet reminiscent of snowy landscapes. Cernovitch designed the original costumes: fur tunics that Cunningham wore over trousers, and Brown wore over tights. Continuing with the piece's Nordic theme, the music by Bo Nilsson was characterized by bursts of activity followed by moments of silence, evoking the feeling of traveling through the spacious, and seemingly endless Northern night.

Performed like a series of vaudeville scenes that overlap, Antic Meet consists of ten playful and comedic numbers. The curtains opened with Cunningham moving among the other dancers as a clown-like figure "who falls in love with a society whose rules he doesn't know," and concludes much in the same way, as he attempts to keep up with the dancers, each with their own movements, as they dance diagonally across the stage. Cage provided the musical accompaniment, using a version of Concert for Piano and Orchestra, and Rauschenberg designed the costumes, which included fur coats and parachute dresses over black leotards.

Cunningham retrace l’évolution artistique du chorégraphe américain Merce Cunningham, de ses premières années comme danseur dans le New-York d’après-guerre, jusqu’à son émergence en tant que créateur visionnaire. Tourné en 3D avec les derniers danseurs de la compagnie, le film reprend 14 des principaux ballets d’une carrière riche de 180 créations, sur une période de 70 ans. Cunningham est un hommage puissant, à travers des archives inédites, à celui qui révolutionné la danse, ainsi qu’à ses nombreux collaborateurs, en particulier le plasticien Robert Rauschenberg et le musicien John Cage.