La Brea woman, 1995-02

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Based on an original poem by Merridawn Duckler about the discovery of the 9,000 year old woman’s remains in the La Brea Tar Pits, exploring feminist issues in the history of Los Angeles and the relationships of relic to curator, prey to predator. Images included a volcano of high-heeled shoes. Written by Merridawn Ducikler, music by Carla Lucero, and designed by Dan Evans, 1995 February.

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Core Title La Brea woman, 1995-02

Title La Brea woman, 1995-02 (title)

Creator Duckler, Heidi (creator)

Contributor Cedar, Mona Jean (performer), Duckler, Heidi (choreographer), Duckler, Merridawn (writer), Evans, Dan (designer), Kawashima-Blake, Susan (performer), Lucero, Carla (music), Nairn, Elizabeth (performer), Ogilvie, Andrew (performer), Tabor, Jerilyn (performer)

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

Date Created 1995-02

Place Name 9070 Venice Blvd (roadways), California (states), Culver City (city or populated place), Ivy Substation (geographic subject), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Subject heidi duckler dance (corporate name)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Format 1 video (01:47:34) (format), performances (creative events) (aat), video/mp4 (imt)

Resolution 1.1 in × 1.6 in at 300dpi
2.9 cm × 4.0 cm at 300dpi

Type video

Language English

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

Identifier dancestry-c105-1289 (legacy record id), Phase 2 (series)

Unique identifier UC146204

Dmrecord 1289

Legacy Identifier dhva_hduckler_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 uscdl@usc.edu

Type Video

Video bitrate 663 kb/s

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

Duration 1h47m34s

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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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