Pas de Bach & song of the woman, 1979-10-03; 1982-07-30

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Pas de Bach & song of the woman, 1979-10-03; 1982-07-30

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Description

This video includes two dances: “Pas de Bach” and “The Song of the Woman”. The former was originally choreographed in 1977 and the latter in 1982. “Pas de Bach” was filmed at Occidental College 1979 October 3. “The Song of the Woman”, a solo was filmed 1982 July 30 Nora Reynolds, Bella Lewitzky’s daughter, is the dancer. These versions of the dances are with the original cast. “Pas de Bach” is the second of four collaborations between Bella Lewitzky and designer Rudi Gernreich. They were both members of the Horton Company and danced together in “Warsaw Ghetto”, a work Lewtizky choreographed with Horton in 1949. Lewitzky choreographed “Song of the Woman” for her daughter, Nora Reynolds, a member of the Lewitzky Dance Company at the time. It was later danced by Company members Amy Ernst and Diana MacNeil. In her oral history, Bella Lewitzky states that this piece “evoked for me all of the things I love in femaleness: the nurturing, the worker – None of them are there in that recognizable shape, but they are there basically in texture.” The original score for string ensemble and soprano was composed by Larry Attaway to a poem by South American Nobel Prize-winning poet Gabriella Mistral.

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Core Title Pas de Bach & song of the woman, 1979-10-03; 1982-07-30

Title Pas de Bach & song of the woman, 1979-10-03; 1982-07-30 (title)

Creator Lewitzky, Bella, 1916-2004 (creator)

Contributor Attaway, Larry (composer), Bella Lewitzky Dance Foundation (provenance), Gernreich, Rudi (designer), Lewitzky, Bella, 1916-2004 (choreographer), Reynolds, Nora (performer)

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

Date Created 1979-10-03, 1982-07-30

Place Name 1600 Campus Road (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Occidental College (geographic subject), USA (countries)

Coverage.geocoordinate 34.127923, -118.210136 (point)

Subject Lewitzky Dance Company (corporate name)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Format 1 video (00:38:00) (format), dances (performance events) (aat), video/mp4 (imt)

Resolution 2.3 in × 1.6 in at 300dpi
6.0 cm × 4.0 cm at 300dpi

Type video

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

Identifier dhva_blewitzky_0002.mp4 (filename), dancestry-c105-1400 (legacy record id)

Unique identifier UC147098

Dmrecord 1400

Legacy Identifier dhva_blewitzky_0002.mp4

Repository Name University of Southern California Digital Library