Beach Birds for Camera (1993) - Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Merce Cunningham, Elliot Caplan 1993, 30:01 min, color and b&w, sound Eliot Caplan’s 35-mm film adaptation of “Beach Birds,“ a dance work originally choreographed for the stage, begins with Merce Cunningham outlining his approach to dance for the camera, and thus his vision for how movement behaves and how we see it. He explains that the piece is choreography adapted for the camera, which extends the sense of what dance can be. Cunningham emphasizes that stage and camera do not compete. “Beach Birds for Ca