"Danse contemporaine." . . "Dance Camera West," . . "Modern dance." . . . . . "Beach birds for camera" . "A performance by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company to John Cage's work Four³." . "Beach birds for camera"@en . "Chorégraphie en hommage à Cage et à Joyce. Les mouvements chorégraphiés par Cunningham pour \"Beach Birds\", s'inspirent de ses observations de la nature (oiseaux, plantes...) de façon plus." . . . . . "A film adaptation of a modern dance work originally made for the stage, featuring the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. The film combines different shooting locations, black and white and color film and stereo sound to present the dance through the visual medium of film."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Modern dance production, with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company." . "Short films"@en . "Short films" . . . "\"Beach Birds for Camera was filmed in 1991 in two different settings: Kaufman Astoria Studios and Industria Superstudio, both in New York City. One is filmed in black-and-white and the other in color. The piece opens with a close-up of the torsos and outstretched arms of dancers in black-and-white costumes designed by Martha Skinner. The dance is accompanied by Four3, a piece written by John Cage for Cunningham's 1991 Beach Birds. Four3, based on Erik Satie's Vexations, was played on two pianos, one in the hall and one outside, and a violin playing held tones. All four musicians added to the ethereal quality of the soundscape by playing rainsticks. As the stark opening notes of Four3 sound, the camera zooms out and the viewer sees that their knees are slightly bent and their arms are swaying. As the piece progresses, there are few moments of complete synchronization of the dancers' movements. Instead the viewer's attention is pulled between different groupings of bodies moving at different paces. Unsurprisingly, the dancers read as birdlike. Their upper chests and arms are covered in black material in a way that suggests wings, while the rest of their bodies are clad in white. They stick their legs out and shake them, alternating between halting, jerky movements and fluid pliés. The audible shuffling of the dancers' feet at once complements and challenges the primacy of Cage's composition.\" - vendor website."@en . . . . "A film adaptation of a modern dance work originally made for the stage. The film combines different shooting locations, black and white and color film and stereo. sound to present the dance through the visual medium of film." . . "Filmed dance" . "Filmed dance"@en . . . . . "Beach birds for camera [videorecording]" . "Beach Birds For Camera : [USA, 1993]" . . "\"Beach Birds for Camera\" is an adaptation of a dance work originally made for the stage adding three additional dancers. This film combines different shooting locations, black and white and color film, and Dolby stereo sound to present dance through the visual medium of film. When it was first suggested to John Cage that he should create a work in collaboration with Merce Cunningham for the 1991 James Joyce/John Cage Festival in Zurich, Cage had the idea to write a large scale piece to be called \"Ocean\", the projected title for Joyce's next novel - never to be written - following \"Finnegan's Wake\". No suitable space was available for such a project, so it was decided that instead a new dance would be made for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's repertory. Cunningham had always intended to call his part of the work \"Beach Birds,\" and so the title remains. Filmed at Kaufman Astoria Studios and Industria Superstudio in New York, NY, December, 1991." . . . . . . . . . . "Dance films" . "Nonfiction films" . "Nonfiction films"@en . "Merce Cunningham Dance Company," . . "Merce Cunningham Dance Company." . . . "Dance Camera West Dance Media Film Festival ( 2010 : Los Angeles, Calif.)" . . . "Cunningham Dance Foundation." . .