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Merce Cunningham and Company

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Festival of Dance 69-70

THE BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC

presents

Merce Cunningham and Dance Company

Dancers: Merce Cunningham with Carolyn Brown and Sandra Neels Valda Setterfield Meg Harper Susana Hayman-Chaffey Jeff Slayton Chase Robinson Mel Wong Douglas Dunn and Viola Farber, guest artist : Merce Cunningham

Music: David Tudor Gordon Mumma Lighting: Richard Nelson Artistic Advisor:

Merce Cunningham and Dance Company are a resident company of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The Brooklyn Academy of Music wishes to thank the Ford Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts for helping to support these performances. Program subject to change. The use of cameras and recording equipment is strictly prohibited. Baldwin is the official piano of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. 4 / BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC / JANUARY 1970 The Brooklyn Academy of Music The Brooklyn Academy of Music is a department of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1970 at 8:30 P.M.

PROGRAM

WALKAROUND TIME (1968) David Behrman ("... for nearly an hour ...")

Merce Cunningham Carolyn Brown Sandra Neels Valda Setterfield Meg Harper Susana Hayman-Chaffey Jeff Slayton Chase Robinson Mel Wong

Decor: After Marcel Duchamp's The Large Glass in the Philadelphia Museum, supervised by Jasper Johns

INTERMISSION

SECOND HAND (1970) John Cage (First performance) (Cheap Imitation)

PART I Merce Cunningham

PART II Merce Cunningham Carolyn Brown

PART Ill Merce Cunningham Carolyn Brown Sandra Neels Valda Setterfield Meg Harper Susana Hayman-Chaffey Jeff Slayton Chase Robinson Mel Wong Douglas Dunn

Decor: Jasper Johns Piano: John Cage

The production of Second Hand was made possible through a Rockefeller Foundation grant for the resident companies of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. 41111119.'

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, at 8:30 P.M.

PROGRAM

RAINFOREST (1968) David Tudor r (Rain Forest) Merce Cunningham Carolyn Brown Sandra Neels Meg Harper Jeff Slayton Chase Robinson Decor: Andy Warhol

INTERMISSION

CRISES (1960) Conlon Nancarrow (Rhythm Studies No. 1, No. 2, No. 4, No. 5, No. 7 and No. 6 for Player Piano) Merce Cunningham Carolyn Brown Viola Farber Sandra Neels Susana Hayman-Chaffey

Costumes:

INTERMISSION

SECOND HAND (1970) John Cage (Cheap Imitation)

PART I Merce Cunningham

PART II Merce Cunningham Carolyn Brown

PART III Merce Cunningham Carolyn Brown Sandra Neels Valda Setterfield Meg Harper Susana Hayman-Chaffey Jeff Slayton Chase Robinson Mel Wong Douglas Dunn Decor: Jasper Johns Piano: John Cage

The production of Second Hand was made possible through a Rockefeller Foundation grant for the resident companies of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. 8 / BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC / JANUARY 1970

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, at 8:30 P.M.

PROGRAM

CANFIELD (1969) Pauline Oliveros (In memoriam: NIKOLA TESLA, Cosmic Engineer)

The title of the dance refers to a game of solitaire.

Merce Cunningham Carolyn Brown Sandra Neels Valda Setterfield Meg Harper Susana Hayman-Chaffey Jeff Slayton Chase Robinson Mel Wong Douglas Dunn Decor: Robert Morris

The production of Canfield was made possible through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation. Fabrication of the Robert Morris decor was commissioned by Mr. and Mrs. Alan Freedman, Vera G. List, the Herman R. and Carol Ruth Sheperd Foundation Incorporated, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. M. Stern.

INTERMISSION

WINTERBRANCH (1964) La Monte Young (2 sounds 'April 19601) Merce Cunningham Carolyn Brown Sandra Neels Valda Setterfield Jeff Slayton Chase Robinson Decor: Robert Rauschenberg

INTERMISSION

TREAD (1970) Christian Wolff (For 1, 2 or 3 people) Merce Cunningham Carolyn Brown Sandra Neels Valda Setterfield Meg Harper Susana Hayman-Chaffey Jeff Slayton Chase Robinson Mel Wong Douglas Dunn Decor: Bruce Nauman

The production of Tread was made possible through a Rockefeller Foundation grant for the resident companies of the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

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MONDAY, JANUARY 12, at 8:30 P.M.

PROGRAM

RAINFOREST (1968) David Tudor (Rain Forest) Merce Cunningham Carolyn Brown 1. Sandra Neels Meg Harper Jeff Slayton Chase Robinson Decor: Andy Warhol ik

INTERMISSION

PLACE (1966) Gordon Mumma (Mesa) Merce Cunningham Carolyn Brown Sandra Neels Valda Setterfield Meg Harper Jeff Slayton Chase Robinson Mel Wong Decor: Beverly Emmons Bandoneon: David Tudor Cybersonic console: Gordon Mumma

The production of Place was made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

INTERMISSION

SECOND HAND (1970) John Cage (Cheap Imitation)

PART I Merce Cunningham PART II Merce Cunningham Carolyn Brown PART III Merce Cunningham Carolyn Brown Sandra Neels Valda Setterfield Meg Harper Susana Hayman-Chaffey Jeff Slayton Chase Robinson Mel Wong Douglas Dunn Decor: Jasper Johns Piano: John Cage

The production of Second Hand was made possible through a Rockefeller Foundation grant for the resident companies of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. 12 / BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC / JANUARY 1970

MERCE CUNNINGHAM AND DANCE COMPANY

MERCE CUNNINGHAM was born in Cen- May 1965, for the First New York Theatre tralia, Washington, and studied at the Cor- Rally, Miss Brown choreographed Balloon, nish School in Seattle. His collaboration a duet for Cunningham dancers Barbara with the composer John Cage began in the Lloyd and using film, a thirty- year 1944. He first presented solo programs foot weather balloon, and a score by her and in 1952 formed a company and has to husband, the composer Earle Brown. More date created some eighty dance works. recently, she choreographed and designed These have been performed with his com- a new ballet, "Car Lot", commissioned by pany throughout the United States and in the Manhattan Ballet Festival for its com- Europe, the Far East, and Latin America. pany in 1968. to choreo- In 1947 he was commissioned SANDRA NEELS was born in Las Vegas. graph a ballet for Ballet Society (later the Nicholas Vasilieff with She studied ballet with New York City Ballet), The Seasons, and did choreography for Portland State designs by Isamu music by John Cage and College. In New York to study at the Cun- Noguchi. A grant from the National Endow- ningham Studio, she designed costumes ment for the Arts made possible the 1955 for off-Broadway shows, performed with production of Place. Mr. Cunningham was Merle Marsicano and the Judson Dance awarded the Gold Medal for Choreographic Theatre and joined the Company in 1953. Invention at the Fourth International Fes- tival of the Dance in Paris in Novemher, VALDA SETTERFIELD was born in England 1956. In the same year the New York City and studied with Marie Rambert and Ballet presented a revised version for clas- Audrey de Vos. She performed with the sic ballet of his Summerspace. His work Ballet Rambert and appeared as a super has consistently involved the collaboration with the Royal Ballet and the Bolshoi Bal- of a number of contemporary composers, let. Her work in New York includes per- among them David Behrman, Earle Brown, formances with , Katherine Morton Feldman, Toshi lchiyanagi, Gordon Litz, and Aileen Pass loff. She joined the Mumma, Conlon Nancarrow, David Tudor, Cunningham Company in 1965. Christian Wolff, and La Mcnte Young. From MEG HARPER was born in Evanston, Illi- 1954 until 1964 costumes and decor for nois, and studied dance at the University Cunningham's were designed by of Illinois. She came to the Cunningham Robert Rauschenberg, who also travelled studio in 1966 and joined the Company in with the company for three years as light- 1967. She studies ballet with Margaret ing designer and stage manager. He was Craske. succeeded in these capacities by Beverly Emmons, the designer for Place. Other SUSANA HAYMAN-CHAFFEY was born in distinguished contemporary painters and England but spent most of her childhood designers who have collaborated with Mr. in South America. Her first ballet training Cunningham include Remy Char lip. Alex was at the Royal Ballet School in London. Hay, Ray Johnson, Richard Lippold, Bruce She performed with the Brazilian Contem- Nauman, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, and porary Dance Company before coming to the company's artistic advisor Jasper Johns. the Martha Graham School in New York. Mr. Cunningham's activities include teach- She joined the Company in 1968. ing and lecturing and the recent compila- JEFF SLAYTON studied dancing in Rich- tion with Frances Starr of Changes: Notes mond, Virginia, where he was a soloist with on Choreography, published last fall by the Richmond Ballet Company. He studied Something Else Press. with Viola Farber, Don Redlich, and Dan CAROLYN BROWN gives four teachers as Wagoner and joined the Company in 1967. her major influences: her mother, Marion CHASE ROBINSON graduated from Florida Rice, her teacher for fifteen years in whose State University. He appeared with the studio in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, she Martha Graham Company, the Lucas studied Hoeing Denishawn, performed, created Trio, the New York City Ballet, and the dances, and eventually taught; Anthony Tu- Pearl Lang Company. He joined the com- dor; Margaret Craske, with whom she con- pany in the spring of 1968. tinues to study ballet; and Merce Cunning- ham, with whom she has worked since MEL WONG became interested in dance 1952. In addition to her work with Mr. Cun- through gymnastics in high school in Oak- ningham, Miss Brown created a role in the land, California. He pursued dance and art first performance of John Cage's Theatre studies at State College and Piece (1960); the role of Electra in Grant receiving his M.F.A. from Mills College. Strate's ballet The House of Atreus He taught at UCLA and performed with (1953); a role on pointe in Robert Raus- the UCLA Dance Company before joining chenberg's Pelican (1963); and the fea- the Company in the summer of 1968. tured dancer's role in Toi, an opera for DOUGLAS DUNN was born in Palo Alto, television by Murray Schafer for the Cana- California. He has danced with Becky dian Broadcasting Corporation (1965). 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Margaret Jenkins, Tina Kroll, Kathy Posin, and composition with Stefan Wolpe. Devot- and . He joined the Company ing himself to the performance of con- in the fall of 1969. temporary piano music he presented many concerts and festi- the first performances in VIOLA FARBER, who is appearing with of music around the per- vals contemporary Cunningham Company this season to world, much of his repertory having been form her original part in Crises, was born written for and dedicated to music especially in Heidelberg, Germany. She studied him. He has worked with tape and elec- at American University and Black Mountain tronic music since collaborating with John College where, in 1952, she began working Cage in composition on magnetic tape in of the with Mr. Cunningham. A member 1951. Mr. Tudor's work Bandoneon! was Company through the spring of 1965, she presented at the Nine Evenings sponsored has held a number of teaching positions by Experiments in Art and Technology, Inc., the past few years including an over in the fall of 1966. Mr. Tudor spent last fall. at Ohio State appointment as guest artist directing a seminar in electronic music at University. This year she opened her own the National Design Institute in Ahmeda- York. Her recent choreog- studio in New bad, India, and is serving as a core artist Nan- raphy includes The Music of Conlon in E.A.T.'s design for the Pepsi-Cola Expo presented last carrow with Peter Saul, 70 pavilion at Osaka. He has been recorded Later January at the Billy Rose Theatre. on Columbia, Time. Everest, Esoteric, this month she will be in Utah to choreo- Wergo, and Vega labels. He has been asso- graph a piece for the Repertory Dance ciated with the Cunningham Company Theatre. She is also working on a piece throughout its existence. that will be presented in New York this spring. GORDON MUMMA was born in Framing- ham, Massachusetts. In 1958, in JOHN CAGE was born in Los Angeles, Cali- collabor- Ashley, he established fornia. He studied with Henry Cowell and ation with Robert Arnold Schoenberg, In 1949 he received the Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music in Ann Arbor. Their further col- both a Guggenheim Fellowship and an laboration included the foundation of the award from the National Academy of Arts having extended the ONCE group and the annual ONCE Festi- and Letters for per- of music through his work with vals, where in 1963 Mr. Mumma first boundaries John Cage and David Tudor. percussion orchestra and his invention of formed with His Mesa, which he premiered with Mr. prepared piano. In 1951 he organized a the Tudor at the Fondation Maeght in France group of musicians and engineers for the in August, was commissioned by the of magnetic tape music, and the 1956, making Cunningham Company. Mr. Mumma be- following year he presented a theatrical College con- came a member of the Company in 1957. event at Black Mountain His music has been recorded on Advance, many to have been the first sidered by CBS Odyssey, and Time labels. Happening. A retrospective concert of his compositions from 1934 was presented at DAVID VAUGHAN, in addition to his work Town Hall in New York in 1958. In the as administrator of the Merce Cunningham summer of 1965, the New York Philhar- Studio, is actor, dancer, and singer, who monic commissioned Variations V, danc- will shortly be appearing in the musical ed by Merce Cunningham and Dance Com- Minnie's Boys. He has played on Broad- pany at the French-American Festival at way in Epitaph for George Dillon and off- Lincoln Center. Variations VII had its Broadway in The Fantasticks. spon- premiere during the Nine Evenings RICHARD NELSON was the Cunningham in and Technol- sored by Experiments Art Company lighting designer for its 1960 and Mr. Cage has ogy, Inc., in the fall of 1955. 1961 seasons and rejoined the Company in Studies been in the Centers for Advanced that capacity in the fall 1968. Univers- of He also at Wesleyan University and at the travelled with the Company as stage man- his HPSCHD had its ity of Illinois, where ager on its 1966 and 1967 European tours. first performance last May 16. He was He has been resident lighting designer elected in 1968 to the National Institute for the Seattle Repertory Theatre, the of Arts and Letters. Collections of his Theatre of the Living Arts in Philadelphia, writings and lectures have been published and the Inner City Cultural Center in Los by the Wesleyan University Press-Silence Angeles, designed the Lincoln Center Rep- in 1961 and A Year From Monday in 1968. ertory Theatre production of Brecht's Cau- Notations was published last year by casian Chalk Circle in 1956, and, this Something Else Press. His music is pub- past summer, designed the Mickey Rooney lished by the Henmar Press of the C. F. production of George M! and the Janis Peters Corporation and recordings are Paige production of Mame. Currently, available on Columbia, Nonesuch, Folk- in addition to his work with the Cunning- ways, Everest, and Time labels. ham Company, Mr. Nelson is lighting de- DAVID TUDOR was born in Philadelphia signer for three Richard Barr productions and studied organ with H. William Hawke, opening at the ANTA Theatre later this piano with Josef Martin and Irma Wolpe, month. 14 / BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC / JANUARY 1970

Stage Manager: Richard Nelson Lighting Assistant: Maxine Glorsky Assistant Stage Manager: Charles Atlas Production Manager: James Baird Seamstress: Joan Sellers Assistant Seamstress: Margaret Wood

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Tapes for Christian Wolff's For 1, 2 or 3 people were prepared by David Tudor with engineers Gordon Mumma and David Behrman on Richard Lippold's Schlicker baroque organ. From this tape material, the master tape for the Odyssey release (32 16 0157/0158) was prepared. 0 Leotards and tights for Second Hand, the women's jumpsuits for Tread, leotards and Mr. Cunningham's shirt for Crises, and the men's jumpsuits for Scramble were executed by Joan Sellers, with the cooperation of Bal Toggery Knits, Inc., and A. Chatila & Co. * 0 0 Set pieces for Walkaround Time were fabricated by Coated Sundries of New York, under the supervision of Jasper Johns. * * *

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