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Collections costumes for The Monkey Dances

Collections costumes for The Monkey Dances

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Physical description: CDF2-6COSTUMES: Mustard colored wool body suit with red top and blue yarn accents, black wool body suit with red yarn accents (designed by Mary Outten), mustard and red pill box hat (designed by Merce)FIRST PERFORMANCE: Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, North Carolina; August 20, 1948 FIRST NEW YORK PERFORMANCE: City Center Theater; December 18, 1949CAST: Merce CunninghamMUSIC: Erik Satie; from Le Piege de Meduse

Title
costumes for The Monkey Dances
Date
1948
Dimensions
see element description
Materials
Wool body suits, pill box hat
Location
Not on view

Object Details

Accession Number
2011.130.1-.3
Physical Description
CDF2-6COSTUMES: Mustard colored wool body suit with red top and blue yarn accents, black wool body suit with red yarn accents (designed by Mary Outten), mustard and red pill box hat (designed by Merce)FIRST PERFORMANCE: Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, North Carolina; August 20, 1948 FIRST NEW YORK PERFORMANCE: City Center Theater; December 18, 1949CAST: Merce CunninghamMUSIC: Erik Satie; from Le Piege de Meduse
Credit Line
Walker Art Center, Merce Cunningham Dance Company Collection,Gift of Jay F. Ecklund, the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation, Agnes Gund, Russell Cowles and Josine Peters, the Hayes Fund of HRK Foundation, Dorothy Lichtenstein, MAHADH Fund of HRK Foundation, Goodale Family Foundation, Marion Stroud Swingle, David Teiger, Kathleen Fluegel, Barbara G. Pine, and the T. B. Walker Acquisition Fund, 2011