Merce Cunningham--Beach Birds 1

This piece is one of Cunningham's most popular pieces. Connected to his other work "Ocean", Cunningham was inspired for these pieces by the work of James Joyce who was an author whose next book was going to be titled "Ocean". This authors writing really influenced Cunningham. The dance shifts from black and white to colored film. There is also much combination and recombination of dancers. Cunningham enjoyed having a lot of interplay between the dancers bodies and lines, not only there actual bodies but there costumes too.