Effusions avant l'heure / Games / Trio



Category: Choreography (by Merce Cunningham)
Dated: 1949
Premiere: June 10, 1949 at Jean Hélion's Studio in Paris, France. Again on July 11, 1949 at Théâtre du Vieux Colombier in Paris, France. A second production (entitled Games) was premiered on January 15, 1950 at Hunter Playhouse in New York City and a third production (entitled Trio) on December 30, 1953 at Theater de Lys in New York City
Dancers: Tanaquil LeClerc, Betty Nichols, Merce Cunningham (first production); Tanaquil LeClerc, Pat McBride, Merce Cunningham (second production); Jo Anne Melsher, Marianne Preger, Remy Charlip (third production)
Music: John Cage: A Valentine out of Season (1944)
Design: Practice clothes


The music was not written for this choreography, but used afterwards