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245 10 a| Ocean /c| concept, Merce Cunningham and John Cage ; choreography, Merce Cunningham ; a film by Charles Atlas.;

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508 a| Music: Ocean 1-133 / by Andrew Culver ; Soundings : ocean diary / by David Tudor.;

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520 a| Ocean (1994), one of Merce Cunningham's most ambitious works, was originally conceived by John Cage in 1991 as a dance to be performed in the round, with the audience surrounding the dancers, and the musicians (112 of them) surrounding the audience. Although it was not possible for the two to realize this project at the time, a commission for performances in Brussels and Amsterdam in 1994 later made this grand concept a reality. Cunningham choreographed the work in nineteen sections, using a chance process based on the number of hexagrams in the I Ching-64 that was then doubled for length. This multiplicity of phrases allowed for solos, duets, trios, quartets, and group sections. To accustom the dancers to dancing in the round, Cunningham told them "you have to put yourself on a merry-go-round that keeps turning all the time." Andrew Culver, following Cage's concept, composed Ocean 1-95 for an unamplified orchestra of 122 or 150, to be performed in the round with the aid of video monitors displaying clock time for the musicians' reference. The piece is complemented by David Tudor's Soundings: Ocean Diary, which is performed simultaneously. This electronic composition, scored for four or more musicians, is amplified with two rings of speakers. Marsha Skinner designed unitards in varied colors for all of the dancers as well as iridescent chiffon dresses for the women to don during the course of the dance. Filmmaker and longtime Cunningham collaborator Charles Atlas filmed the last performances of Ocean, held in the Rainbow Quarry in Minnesota, September 2008. Using a five-camera crew, Atlas filmed three performances of this epic production, which he then edited into a single film. Atlas's films stand as the final living record of many of Cunningham's seminal works, and the feature-length Ocean marked his final Cunningham project.;

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Ocean / concept, Merce Cunningham and John Cage ; choreography, Merce Cunningham ; a film by Charles Atlas.

Author/creator	Cunningham, Merce choreographer.
Format	Video (Streaming)
Publication	New York, NY : Merce Cunningham Trust, 2010.
Description	1 online resource (100 minutes)
Supplemental Content	https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?MARC;3391294

Other author/creator	Atlas, Charles director.
Other author/creator	Culver, Andrew, 1953- composer.
Other author/creator	Tudor, David, 1926-1996 composer.
Other author/creator	Cage, John.
Other author/creator	Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Abstract	Ocean (1994), one of Merce Cunningham's most ambitious works, was originally conceived by John Cage in 1991 as a dance to be performed in the round, with the audience surrounding the dancers, and the musicians (112 of them) surrounding the audience. Although it was not possible for the two to realize this project at the time, a commission for performances in Brussels and Amsterdam in 1994 later made this grand concept a reality. Cunningham choreographed the work in nineteen sections, using a chance process based on the number of hexagrams in the I Ching-64 that was then doubled for length. This multiplicity of phrases allowed for solos, duets, trios, quartets, and group sections. To accustom the dancers to dancing in the round, Cunningham told them "you have to put yourself on a merry-go-round that keeps turning all the time." Andrew Culver, following Cage's concept, composed Ocean 1-95 for an unamplified orchestra of 122 or 150, to be performed in the round with the aid of video monitors displaying clock time for the musicians' reference. The piece is complemented by David Tudor's Soundings: Ocean Diary, which is performed simultaneously. This electronic composition, scored for four or more musicians, is amplified with two rings of speakers. Marsha Skinner designed unitards in varied colors for all of the dancers as well as iridescent chiffon dresses for the women to don during the course of the dance. Filmmaker and longtime Cunningham collaborator Charles Atlas filmed the last performances of Ocean, held in the Rainbow Quarry in Minnesota, September 2008. Using a five-camera crew, Atlas filmed three performances of this epic production, which he then edited into a single film. Atlas's films stand as the final living record of many of Cunningham's seminal works, and the feature-length Ocean marked his final Cunningham project.
General note	Title from resource description page (viewed March 07, 2017).
Credits	Music: Ocean 1-133 / by Andrew Culver ; Soundings : ocean diary / by David Tudor.
Performer	Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Date/time/place of a event note	Recorded Rainbow Quarry.
Genre/form	Filmed dance.

Ocean / concept, Merce Cunningham and John Cage ; choreography, Merce Cunningham ; a film by Charles Atlas.

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