Aura, 2005-02-17

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An evening-length dance theater piece for ten performers, Aura is inspired by, and based on, Carlos Fuentes’ novella of the same name. Two artists-- Rosanna Gamson, artistic director of Rosanna Gamson World Wide , Los Angeles, and Cecilia Appleton, artistic director of Contradanza, Mexico City-- explore the duality of culture, language, identity and movement implicit in the text. Choreographed and directed by Gamson and Appleton, and developed in collaboration with the performers, Aura is performed by five dancers from each company as a dual-layered interpretation of Fuentes’ story of inner and outer self. The piece was developed simultaneously in Mexico and the United States and premiered in Mexico City in 2004, at Teatro de la Danza del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, and in Los Angeles at REDCAT in 2005.

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Core Title Aura, 2005-02-17

Title Aura, 2005-02-17 (title)

Creator Gamson, Rosanna (creator)

Contributor Gamson, Rosanna (choreographer)

Publisher University of Southern California (original), University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 2005-02-17

Place Name 631 W 2ND STREET (roadways), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), REDCAT (geographic subject), USA (countries)

Subject Rosanna Gamson/World Wide (corporate name)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Format 1 video (01:47:28) (format), performances (creative events) (aat), video/mp4 (imt)

Resolution 1.3 in × 1.0 in at 300dpi
3.3 cm × 2.5 cm at 300dpi

Type video

Source Dance Heritage Video Archive (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Identifier dhva_rgamson_0012.mp4 (filename), dancestry-c105-1540 (legacy record id)

Unique identifier UC145584

Dmrecord 1540

Legacy Identifier dhva_rgamson_0012.mp4

Repository Name University of Southern California Digital Library

Repository Location USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA

Repository Email uscdl@usc.edu

Type Video

Video bitrate 824 kb/s

Video format h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 1h47m27s

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Title Dance Heritage Video Archive

Description With generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (https://mellon.org/), the USC Libraries (https://libraries.usc.edu) and the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance (https://kaufman.usc.edu) created the Dance History Video Archive (DHVA) collection. The collection preserves culturally significant recordings that document global and U.S. dance traditions, creative work by outstanding choreographers and performers, and performances that helped to advance the art form.

The DHVA collection continues the work begun by the Dance Heritage Coalition’s Dance Preservation and Digitization Project to address the challenges faced by dance artists, choreographers, performers, and companies in preserving a record of their work and helping to share it as broadly as possible with global and U.S. audiences and scholars.

Over a 15-year period, the Dance Heritage Coalition assembled more than 1,200 important dance performances digitized at hubs in New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. Thanks to generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, those recordings were migrated to their new permanent home in the USC Digital Library during the summer of 2018.

The USC Libraries will make the DHVA collection available as broadly as reasonably possible within contractual and legal limits for educational research, study, and teaching.

The collection includes video recordings with certain rights restrictions that require limited access. To inquire about gaining access to these materials, contact (dhva@usc.edu) dance preservation and digital projects librarian Javier Garibay.

In the coming years, the USC Libraries and the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance will continue to build and enhance the features of this culturally significant digital collection documenting the artistry and diversity of human movement traditions.

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