An unusual (for Cunningham) piece of light-hearted Americana, danced to Le Banjo by Louis Moreau Gottschalk, played with extraordinary virtuosity by David Tudor. A program note read: “The music and dance provide an accelerated and heightened montage of familiar southern American motifs.” The costumes were dresses for the women, shirts (with neckties) and pants for the men. Banjo was first performed in the Cunningham company’s initial program at Black Mountain College, North Carolina, in August 1953. In 1957 Cunningham choreographed a dance to another piece by Gottschalk, Ses yeux, polka de concert, and thereafter the two were always performed together.