Field Dances



Category: Choreography (by Merce Cunningham)
Dated: 1963
Premiere: July 17, 1963 at the University of California in Los Angeles, CA. Second production: December 3, 1966 at Saville Theatre London, UK. Third Production: August 6, 1967 at the Twentieth American Dance Festival, Connecticut College, New London, CT. Several other stagings, also for other companies.
Dancers: Merce Cunningham, Carolyn Brown, Viola Farber, Shareen Blair (first production); Carolyn Brown, Barbara Lloyd, Sandra Neels, Valda Setterfield, Albert Reid, Peter Saul, Gus Solomons Jr. (second production); Carolyn Brown, Barbara Lloyd, Sandra Neels, Yseult Riopelle, Valda Setterfield, Albert Reid, Peter Saul, Gus Solomons Jr. (third production)
Music: John Cage: Variations IV (1963) (first and third productions, at least in some performances). In silence (second production)
Design: Robert Rauschenberg (costumes, first production); black leotards and tights (second production); Remy Charlip (costumes from 'Minutiae', third production)