Antic Meet

Antic Meet

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1964

Runtime

0h 27m

Genres

Documentary, Music

Original Title

Antic Meet

Director

Arne Arnbom

Description

Performed like a series of vaudeville scenes that overlap, Antic Meet consists of ten playful and comedic numbers. The curtains opened with Cunningham moving among the other dancers as a clown-like figure "who falls in love with a society whose rules he doesn't know," and concludes much in the same way, as he attempts to keep up with the dancers, each with their own movements, as they dance diagonally across the stage. Cage provided the musical accompaniment, using a version of Concert for Piano and Orchestra, and Rauschenberg designed the costumes, which included fur coats and parachute dresses over black leotards.