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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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)

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

Repository Location USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA

Repository Email cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Type Video

Video bitrate 615 kb/s

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

Duration 38m2s

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Title Dance Heritage Video Archive

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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.