Antic Meet

Antic Meet (1964) blends Documentary and Music elements. Top cast includes Merce Cunningham, Carolyn Brown, and Barbara Dilley. Relationships and emotional turning points shape the core of the story.

Actor: Merce Cunningham

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.