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Aura, 2004-10-30
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Aura, 2004-10-30

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Description
  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. 
Asset Metadata
Core Title Aura, 2004-10-30 
Title Aura, 2004-10-30 (title) 
Creator Gamson, Rosanna (creator) 
Contributor Gamson, Rosanna (choreographer) 
Publisher University of Southern California (original), University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 2004-10-30 
Place Name Country Club Churubusco (roadway), Mexico (countries), Mexico City (city or populated place), Mexico City (states), Teatro Raul Flores Canelo (geographic subject) 
Subject Rosanna Gamson/World Wide  (corporate name) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Format 1 video (01:29:21) (format), performances (creative events) (aat), video/mp4 (imt) 
Resolution 1.3 in Ă— 1.0 in at 300dpi
3.3 cm Ă— 2.5 cm at 300dpi 
Type video
Source Dance Heritage Video Archive (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity) 
Identifier dhva_rgamson_0011.mp4 (filename), dancestry-c105-1511 (legacy record id) 
Unique identifier UC145604 
Dmrecord 1511 
Legacy Identifier dhva_rgamson_0011.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 cisadmin@lib.usc.edu
Type Video 
Video bitrate 918 kb/s 
Video format h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661) 
Duration 1h29m20s 
Inherited Values
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.