Cage/Cunningham
A Film by Eliott Caplan
This Wednesday, February 9 at 7:00 p.m.
Wendell W. Anderson Jr. Auditorium
Walter B. Ford II Building
(Corner of John R. and Frederick Douglass)
Walter & Josephine Ford Campus
College for Creative Studies
Free and open to the public
This insightful film documents the fifty-year collaboration between two
revolutionary American artists, composer John Cage and choreographer Merce
Cunningham. Tracing the history of their renowned and enduring
collaboration, the film explores the artistic and philosophical associations
that Cage and Cunningham have had with a wide range of leading figures in
the art, literary, dance and music worlds. Filmmaker Eliott Caplan combines
eight years of world tour footage, archival material dating back to the
beginning of their careers, and interviews with principal figures involved
in the Cage/Cunningham collaboration. Mr. Caplan's daily contact with the
documentary's subjects has inspired a revealing and sensitive portrait of
two men whose spirit of adventure and iconoclastic thinking have helped to
revolutionize life and art in the twentieth century.
Produced by: Cunningham Dance Foundation
Directed by: Elliot Caplan
Written by: David Vaughn
Choreography by: Merce Cunningham
Music by: John Cage
ALSO FEATURING:
Nam June Paik
Robert Rauschenberg
Carolyn Brown
Viola Farber
Alvin Lucier
La Monte Young
Rudolf Nureyev
David Tudor
Jasper Johns
Frank Stella
Virgil Thomson