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Videos, 2016-2019
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This series contains digital moving images recorded by Peter Angelo Simon.
Subjects include choreographers Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, and unnamed
street performers. The materials document the rehearsal, performance, and
reception of Childs’s Available Light (Chatalet
Theatre, Paris, 2016); the restaged performance of Cunningham’s Night Wandering (Düsseldorf Opera House, Germany, 2019),
and clips of street performers in New York City. Childs collaborated with composer
John Adams and architect Frank Gehry for Available
Light. Lighting design for Available Light
and Night Wandering was provided by Beverly Emmons.
The unnamed street performers are dancers and skateboarders in Brooklyn.
Video recording footage and photographs by Peter Angelo Simon included in the
documentary film titled Bessie: A Portrait of Bessie
Schönberg are found on the DVD included in this collection that was
transferred to the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded
Sound (MBRS) Division. |
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Arranged alphabetically by title of work. |
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Available Light,
2016
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DIGITAL ID: SimonPeterA_MUS_2022_003 |
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Choreographed by Lucinda Childs; performed by the
Lucinda Childs Dance Company; music by John Adams |
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Rehearsals, performance, and reception in Paris,
and several photographs of the dance company; 19 digital files |
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Night Wandering,
2019
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Digital ID: SimonPeterA_MUS_2022_004 |
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Choreographed by Merce Cunningham; performed by
Ballet at the Rhine; music by Bo Nilsson |
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Restaged performance in Düsseldorf, Germany; 13
digital files |
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Street Performance, undated
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DIGITAL ID: SimonPeterA_MUS_2022_006 |
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Dancer on a subway platform; skateboarder in
Brooklyn; 4 digital files |
