Mexican couple dance, 1963-06-01

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One couple demonstrates steps of a Mexican dance (name unknown) on occasion of the 1963 Statewide Festival organized biennially by the Folk Dance Federation of California, South. Held over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, 31 May - 2 June, in Santa Monica, the dancers were filmed outside of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Professor Albert ("Al") Pill was a researcher and teacher of early Spanish California (Californio) dancing and of dances in Mexico. On the same Festival weekend, he taught three Mexican dances in a workshop for recreational folk dancers and school teachers. His dance partner in the film, Avis Tarvin, was also a prominent member of the Folk Dance Federation in southern California.

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Core Title Mexican couple dance, 1963-06-01

Title Mexican couple dance, 1963-06-01 (title)

Creator Pill, Albert (creator)

Contributor Elsie Ivancich Dunin Collection. Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. (provenance), Pill, Albert (Al) (dancer), Tarvin, Avis (dancer)

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

Date Created 1963-06-01

Place Name 1855 Main Street (roadways), California (states), Los Angeles (counties), Santa Monica (city or populated place), Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (geographic subject), USA (countries)

Subject Folk Dance Federation of California, South (corporate name)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Format 1 video (00:01:24) (format), folk dances (aat), video/mp4 (imt)

Resolution 5.1 in × 3.6 in at 300dpi
13.0 cm × 9.1 cm at 300dpi

Type video

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

Identifier dhva_edunin_0008.mp4 (filename), dancestry-c105-1459 (legacy record id)

Unique identifier UC147342

Dmrecord 1459

Legacy Identifier dhva_edunin_0008.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 3.2 Mb/s

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

Duration 1m23s

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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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