Polish suite by Gandy Dancers, 1963-06-01

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Three couples of the Gandy Dancers with the men in Lowicz area costumes. They are filmed on occasion of the 1963 Statewide Folk Dance 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. Dancers recognized are Don Green, Valerie Staigh, Avis Tarvin, Cameron Williams. The Gandy Dancers (1948 until the 1990s) were one of the prominent recreational dance groups in southern California, learning and giving dance performances of a different culture each year at Folk Dance Federation of California's folk dance festivals.

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Core Title Polish suite by Gandy Dancers, 1963-06-01

Title Polish suite by Gandy Dancers, 1963-06-01 (title)

Contributor Elsie Ivancich Dunin Collection. Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. (provenance), Green, Don (dancer), Staigh, Valerie (dancer), Tarvin, Avis (dancer), Williams, Cameron (dancer)

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

Date Created 1963-06-01

Place Name 1856 Main Street (roadways), California (states), Los Angeles (counties), Santa Monica (city or populated place), Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (geographic subject), USA (countries)

Subject Gandy Dancers (corporate name)

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

Format 1 video (00:02:07) (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_0009.mp4 (filename), dancestry-c105-1434 (legacy record id)

Unique identifier UC147326

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/dancestry-c105-1434

Dmrecord 1434

Legacy Identifier dhva_edunin_0009.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 3.99 Mb/s

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

Duration 2m6s

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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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