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costumes for Roaratorio

Date

1983

Dimensions

see element description

Type

Costumes

Description

COSTUMES: Solid colored sweatpants, legwarmers in sweatpant material, flared mini shorts and mini skirt, camisole shirts, all in red, a variety of greens, a variety of blues, orange, purple, yellow, brown, and white. Long sleeve unitards and leotards in muted greens, purples, gray, black, and silver. Women's nude footless tights. Some nude tights sewn into the women's leotards.FIRST PERFORMANCE: Festival de Lille, Le Colisee, Roubaix, France; October 26, 1983FIRST CAST: Helen Barrow, Louise Burns, Merce Cunningham, Susan Emery, Lise Friedman, alan good, Neil Greenberg, Catherine Kerr, Chris Komar, Judy Lazaroff, Joseph Lennon, Karen Radford, Rob Remley, Robert Swinston, Megan Walker, Susan Quinn YoungMUSIC: John Cage; 1979 and text drawn from Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Details

Materials

Multicolored sweatpants, leg warmers, mini shorts, mini skirt, camisole tank tops, long sleeve unitards, long sleeve leotards with footless tights sewn in, long sleeve leotards, footless tights

Credit Line

Walker Art Center, Merce Cunningham Dance Company Collection, Gift of Jay F. Ecklund, the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation, Agnes Gund, Russell Cowles and Josine Peters, the Hayes Fund of HRK Foundation, Dorothy Lichtenstein, MAHADH Fund of HRK Foundation, Goodale Family Foundation, Marion Stroud Swingle, David Teiger, Kathleen Fluegel, Barbara G. Pine, and the T. B. Walker Acquisition Fund, 2011

Accession Number

2011.170.1-.42

Inscriptions

.1 MC;.2 RR;.3 DK (CAK);.4 CK;.5 PL;.6 PL;.7 SQ;.8 CK;.9 KF;.10 KF;.11 RR;.12 S CAK;.13 S CAK;.14 RS 4;.15 RR 3;.16 RS 4;.17 CK;.18 KR;.19 HB;.20 KrS;.21 MW;.22 CT;.23 KF;.24 KrS;.25 BC;.26 DM;.27 RS;.28 JH;.29 SR (or JR?);.30 RM;.31 DC;.32 JG;.33 JS;.34 ED;.35 KN;.36 JC;.37 MT (or MJ?);.38 MM;.39 AW;.40 MT;.41 AW;.42 MM