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.

Antic Meet (1964)
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Merce Cunningham
Dancer
CB
Carolyn Brown
Dancer
BD
Barbara Dilley
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VF
Viola Farber
Dancer
SN
Sandra Neels
Dancer
SP
Steve Paxton
Dancer