Changing Steps / Changing Steps-Loops



Category: Choreography (by Merce Cunningham)
Dated: 1973
Premiere: First production: March 22, 1973 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York (as part of Event #65); Second production: March 7, 1975 at Music Hall, Detroit, MI; First video screening: May 15, 1989 at Anthology Film Archives, New York City
Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Meg Harper, Susana Hayman-Chaffey, Chris Komar, Robert Kovich, Barbara Lias, Brynar Mehl, Sandra Neels, Valda Setterfield, Julie Roess-Smith. (first production); Karen Attix, Ellen Cornfield, Merce Cunningham, Meg Harper, Susana Hayman-Chaffey, Katherine Kerr, Chris Komar, Robert Kovich, Brynar Mehl, Charles Moulton, Julie Roess-Smith (second production). Helen Barrow, Kimberly Bartosik, Emma Diamond, Victoria Finlayson, Alan Good, Chris Komar, David Kulick, Patricia Lent, Larissa McGoldrick, Dennis O'Connor, Kristy Santimyer, Robert Swinston, Carol Teitelbaum, Robert Wood (video production)
Music: Music by David Behrmann, John Cage, David Tudor and Gordon Mumma: (first production); Second production and video production: John Cage: Cartridge Music (1960)
Design: Charles Atlas (costumes for first and second productions); Mark Lancaster and Suzanne Gallo (costumes for video production)


Second production includes excerpts from the choreography Loops (1971). Various stagings for other dance companies. The video version was videotaped in October 1988 at Sundance Institute, Provo, UT and at Sunrise Studios, Orem UT. Directed by Elliot Caplan and Merce Cunningham