The screenings will be introduced by David Vaughan, archivist for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company since 1976.
Prescient for its connection to choreographer Merce Cunningham’s Ocean, this dance film is adapted from a stage collaboration between Cunningham and composer John Cage, who had been inspired by the work of James Joyce (the author’s next book after Finnegan’s Wake was to be titled Ocean). The widescreen film shifts from black and white to color, and the dance sequences served as a prototype for the expanded dance Ocean, which is also being presented by the Walker this weekend. 1992, 35mm, 28 minutes.
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