Merce Cunningham Movies

Blue Studio: Five Segments is a groundbreaking work of videodance by postmodern master Merce Cunningham and his then filmmaker-in-residence, Charles...

A history of the work of Merce Cunningham.

Experimental composer John Cage tours Europe with The Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1966.

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

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

The choreographer Merce Cunningham working with the musician John Cage and the painter Robert Rauschenberg.

A feature length film from acclaimed dance choreographer Merce Cunningham.

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

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

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

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

Cunningham said of his choreography for "Beach Birds", “It is all based on individual physical phrasing. The dancers don’t have to be...