Special pre-order opportunity for the release of: Split Sides by Merce Cunningham Dance Company
featuring original music by Radiohead & Sigur Rós
An ARTPIX Release
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First 500 customers to pre-order will receive a special price of $34.00 (a 20% savings) plus a FREE CD from the Asthmatic Kitty Records label or a DVD from the Microcinema catalogue!!
(Microcinema's friendly staff will select FREE giveaway upon shipping order)
Offer ends April 30th so act fast!
Official street date is June 30, 2009
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$US 40.00 SRP/EDU
European List Prices:
40.00€ / £27.99
CATALOG # MC-980
UPC: 880198098092
Music
2009 / 126 mins
Merce Cunningham,
Photo by Mark Seliger
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Split Sides by
Merce Cunningham Dance Company
An ARTPIX Release
Merce Cunningham's Split
Sides (2003) captures the iconic modernist choreographer's most radical use
of chance procedures. As the title implies, the piece is divided into two
parts. Each 20-minute part features one of two options for the different
creative elements of the piece: set design, costumes, lighting, music, and
choreography. The order in which each element appears during a given
performance is determined by an onstage dice roll before the performance,
captured on full screen for the live audience. There are thus 32 possible
combinations for any performance of Split
Sides. In addition to Merce Cunningham's two choreographic segments, the
work features two set designs (one by Robert Heishman and one by Catherine
Yass), two sets of costumes (by James Hall), and two lighting plots (by James
F. Ingalls). Original scores, composed specifically for this collaboration by
the British alternative rock group Radiohead and the Icelandic experimentalist
group Sigur Rós, offer the two choices of music. This two-disc DVD set, by
giving viewers the opportunity to alternate soundtracks, presents 4 of the 32
possible variations of the work. Filmmaker Charles Atlas masterfully captures
the dance with Merce close at his side. Cunningham calls the films Split Sides 45 and Split Sides 46, because they capture the 45th and 46th performances
of this epic collaboration.
CONTENTS
Split Sides 45
Choreography "A" followed by "B"
Music in the basic
presentation is Sigur Rós followed by Radiohead
Alternative sound
options are Radiohead followed by Sigur Rós or silent with the same dance footage
(Total Running
Time: 2:06:00)
Split Sides 46
Choreography "B" followed by "A"
Music in the basic
presentation is Radiohead followed by Sigur Rós
Alternative sound
options are Sigur Rós followed by Radiohead or silent with the same dance footage
(Total Running
Time: 2:06:00)
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