Weeping women in dance: classic American laments, 1994-04-28; 1994-04-30

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Presented in conjunction with the 1994 exhibition of Picasso's Weeping Women. 1994 April 28 and 30 at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Leo S. Bing Theater. Sponsored by Drake Beam Morin, Inc, Pain Webber, California Arts Council. Includes performances of the following: 1) "Lamentation: A dance of sorrow," (1930) choreography and costuming by Martha Graham, restaged by Janet Eilber to "Klavierstucke, Opus 3, Number 1," by Zoltan Kodaly, 2) "Dance of the Furies," (1907) choreographed by Isadora Duncan, restaged by Risa Steinberg with music from the opera, "Orfeo," by Christoph W. Gluck, 3) "Cante Flamenco: to the memory of La Passionara," (1944) choreography by Jane Dudley, restaged by Nancy Colahan and performed by Bonnie Oda Homsey, with costuming by Edith Gilford and reconstructed by Roslyn Moore, and to "Traditional Medias Granadinos," sung by Chato de Valencia, 4) "Strange Fruit: A man has just been lynched," (1943) choreography and costume by Pearl Primus, with poem by Lewis Allen (Abel Meeropol) narrated by Ron Glass, restaging directed by Pearl Primus and performed by Michele Simmons, 5) "Deep Song," (1937) with choreography and costume by Martha Graham, performed to "SInister Resonance" by Henry Cowell, and restaging performed by Janet Eilber, 6) "Roads to Hell: 'Wrath' (exerpt)," (1941) choreography and costuming by Eleanor King, music by Genevieve Pitot, costume reconstruction by Roslyn Moore, restaged by Risa Steinberg, and performed by Bonnie Oda Homsey, 7) "Kaddish," (1948), choreography by Ana Sokolow, with music by Maurice Ravel, costume by Marta Yoshida, and restaging performed by Risa Steinberg.

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Core Title Weeping women in dance: classic American laments, 1994-04-28; 1994-04-30

Title Weeping women in dance: classic American laments, 1994-04-28; 1994-04-30 (title)

Creator Eilber,Janet (creator), Oda Homsey,Bonnie (creator)

Contributor Allen, Lewis (poet), Colahan, Nancy (restager), Cowell, Henry (composer), de Valencia, Chato (singer), Dudley, Jane (choreographer), Duncan, Isadora, 1877-1927 (choreographer), Eilber, Janet (performer), Gilford, Edith (costuming), Glass, Ron (narrator), Gluck, Christoph W. (composer), Graham, Martha, 1894-1991 (choreographer), Graham, Martha, 1894-1991 (costuming), King, Eleanor (choreographer), King, Eleanor (costuming), Kodaly, Zoltan (composer), Moore, Roslyn (costuming), Oda Homsey, Bonnie (director), Oda Homsey, Bonnie (performer), Pitot, Genevieve (composer), Primus, Pearl (choreographer), Primus, Pearl (costuming), Ravel, Maurice (composer), Simmons, Michele (performer), Sokolow, Anna (choreographer), Steinberg, Risa (performer), Steinberg, Risa (restager), Yoshida, Martha (costuming)

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

Date Created 1994-04-28/1994-04-30

Place Name 5905 Wilshire Boulevard (roadways), California (states), Leo S. Bing Theater (performance sites), Los Angeles (counties), Los Angeles (cities), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (populated places), USA (countries)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:dance,OAI-PMH Harvest

Format 1 video (00:35:25) (format), performances (creative events) (aat), video/mp4 (imt)

Resolution 1.8 in × 1.4 in at 300dpi
4.6 cm × 3.5 cm at 300dpi

Type video

Language English

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

Unique identifier UC13012859

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/dance-oUC13012859

Legacy Identifier dhva_homsey_0001

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 2.39 Mb/s

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

Duration 35m25s

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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.

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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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