Four Walls



Category: Choreography (by Merce Cunningham)
Dated: 1944
Premiere: August 22, 1944 at the Perry Mansfield Workshop in Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Dancers: Merce Cunningham, Patricia Birsh, Marlise Bok, Jean Cummings, Leora Dana, Joan Frederiksen, Julie Harris, Martha Hindle, Betty Koerber, Connie Kuhnie, George Lang, Patricia Lawrence, Fawn Pickett, Stanton Schmutz, Vivian Steinberg, Virginia Tanner
Music: John Cage: Four Walls
Design: Arch Lauterer (scenery and costumes)


New productions were staged (excerpts only) on September 9, 1944 (University of Utah, Salt Lake City) and November 20, 1944 (Woman's Club, Richmond, VA). A solo entitled Soliloquy (an excerpt from the original choreography) was premiered in 1945.