| Category: | Choreography (by Merce Cunningham) |
| Dated: | 1944 |
| Premiere: | November 20, 1944 at Woman's Club, Richmond, Virginia and January 9, 1945 at Hunter Playhouse, New York City. |
| Dancers: | Merce Cunningham |
| Music: | Erik Satie: First movement of Socrate, drame symphonique (1919), arranged by John Cage |
| Design: | Merce Cunningham (costumes) |
| Cage arranged the other 2 parts of Socrate in 1968. He intended to use this music for a 1969 choreography by Merce Cunningham. Because of copyright problems he composed Cheap Imitation instead for the choreography Second Hand |