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The Pocket Theatre presents "Vexations" by Erik Satie, Performed by the Pocket Theatre Piano Relay Team for the benefit of the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Monday, September 9, 1963 [Fondazione Bonotto, Colceresa (VI)]

Players: Viola Farber, Robert Wood, MacRae Cook, John Cale, John Cage, Christian Wolff, David Del Tredici, David Tudor, Philip Corner, James Tenney, Robert Wood

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Viola Farber, dancer in "Summerspace", 1958. Black Mountain College (?). Choreographed by Merce Cunningham. Designed by Robert Rauschenberg. Music by Morton Feldman.

Summerspace  1958 PREMIERE DATE - August 17, 1958 PREMIERE VENUE - American Dance Festival, Connecticut College LOCATION - New London, CT MUSIC - Morton Feldman IXION DECOR - Robert Rauschenberg COSTUMES - Robert Rauschenberg DURATION - 15 minutes ORGINAL CAST - Carolyn Brown, Remy Charlip, Merce Cunningham, Viola Farber, Cynthia Stone, Marilyn Wood                                                

This piece is indicative of Cunningham’s unique collaborative method, in which Feldman composed the score, Rauschenberg designed the décor, and Cunningham choreographed independently from each other. Together, the movement, music and décor give the effect of a balmy, summer day. Dressed in painted leotards, the dancers move about the stage in sudden bursts of speed and suspensions, zigzagging every which way, like flying creatures. The delicate music, at times sounds like bubbles of water rising to the surface, and at others, with a muffled rumble in the bass, like distant thunder.            

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Viola Farber in "Summerspace" 1958. Black Mountain College.

Choreographed by Merce Cunninngham

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