Mr. Westinghouse, 1994

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Mr. Westinghouse, 1994

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Description

A duet for dancer and refrigerator, Mr. Westinghouse satires domesticity through the portrayal of this anthropomorphic relationship. Accompanied by music by Harry Gilbert on cello, the conversation between woman and fridge portrays the hunger for love. Performances of this piece were done at the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival, Los Angeles, in 1996, and the Dance Kaleidoscope Festival at California State University, Los Angeles, 1994.

Asset Metadata

Core Title Mr. Westinghouse, 1994

Title Mr. Westinghouse, 1994 (title)

Creator Duckler, Heidi (creator)

Contributor Duckler, Heidi (choreographer), Gilbert, Harry (performer), Leiff, Judith (performer), Pleshette, John (performer)

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

Date Created 1994

Place Name 5151 State University Drive (roadway), California (states), California State University, Los Angeles (geographic subject), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Subject heidi duckler dance (corporate name)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Format 1 video (00:11:56) (format), performances (creative events) (aat), video/mp4 (imt)

Resolution 1.1 in × 1.4 in at 300dpi
2.8 cm × 3.7 cm at 300dpi

Type video

Language English

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

Identifier dancestry-c105-1291 (legacy record id), Phase 2 (series)

Unique identifier UC146677

Dmrecord 1291

Legacy Identifier dhva_hduckler_0018.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 510 kb/s

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

Duration 11m56s

Inherited Values

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.