Tacita Dean

Craneway Event

Archive 2010

Photo Michael Vahrenwald © Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris / New York, Frith Street Gallery, Londres ©

Tacita Dean
Craneway Event, 2009
A film with and about Merce Cunningham
With the participation of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Thanks to Marian Goodman Gallery
Corealisation Cinémathèque de la Danse ; Festival d’Automne à Paris

In 2007, Tacita Dean filmed Merce Cunningham rehearsing “Stillness”. She later followed him to Richmond, California, to capture one of his performances in an old Ford factory. In a setting bathed in light, the film she made captures Cunningham’s concentration and precision.