Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth with us & the rest of the Trojan family, all throughout February, with a series of public programs reflect upon the theme of "Reclamation through Resistance, Rebirth through Reconciliation." https://news.usc.edu/205003/black-history-month-at-usc-2023/
Through Feb. 25, our Norris Medical Library hosts the National Library of Medicine traveling exhibition, "Opening Doors," which tells the stories of pioneering African American surgeons and educators who exemplify excellence in their fields and work to educate and mentor younger physicians and surgeons. We invite you to see the exhibit, and then—reflecting on the theme of "Black Resistance"—share with us what inspires you to get through difficult times. https://libguides.usc.edu/c.php?g=1279582&p=9390091
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This month we celebrate the achievements and contributions of women throughout history. On Tuesday, March 1, at noon, please join President Carol Folt and the USC community as we honor women and explore the theme "Providing Healing, Promoting Hope." #WomensHistoryMonth
RSVP: https://calendar.usc.edu/event/womens_history_month
From the horse's mouth meets the new millennium, dance kaleidoscope, 2000
We're sharing occasional highlights from our new Dance Heritage Video Archive, developed in partnership with the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance and with a generous grant from the The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Javier SepĂşlveda Garibay, our dance preservation and digital projects librarian, writes of this clip:
"'Louise, I know you’re out there … I just wanted to acknowledge the fact that it’s easier to say I love you in this large space than when I’m close to you,' says Alfred Desio, closing the end of a brief life story. Filmed in July 2000, From the Horse’s Mouth Meets the New Millennium brought together 35 prominent dancers and others primarily from Los Angeles as well as New York and San Francisco. In the video, dance artists give brief synopses about themselves and a dance a short phrase. Produced by Tina Croll and James Cunningham, the piece was performed at the end of the Dance Kaleidoscope Festival that year."
Watch the full video in the USC Digital Library: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll105/id/1311/rec/1
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We're sharing occasional highlights from our new Dance Heritage Video Archive, developed in partnership with the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance and with a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Javier SepĂşlveda Garibay, our dance preservation and digital projects librarian, writes of this clip:
"The Philippine Dance Gathering and Workshops is an annual folk traditional arts project established by Kayamanan Ng Lahi, a Los Angeles-based organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Philippino dance and music. Bringing together a team of researchers and artists, the gathering provides an opportunity for the community to learn a repertoire of regional dances and facilitates a forum for cultural discussion and networking. The video here is a peek at the third-annual conference, held at UCLA in August 2001."
Watch more videos from the conference in the Dance Heritage Video Archive: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll105/id/1484
Risks by George Willis
We're sharing occasional highlights from our new Dance Heritage Video Archive, developed in partnership with the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance and with a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation. Javier SepĂşlveda Garibay, our dance preservation and digital projects librarian, writes of this clip:
“Risks,” a five-part dance concert by George Willis, explores the theme of humanity out of step with the world around it. Through a landscape of quick, sharp movements and thematic music and sounds, ranging from Ghanaian rhythms to traffic noises, Willis brings to life the problems of staying alive in the early Seventies, never quite ready for the change between each segment that comprises “Risks.” One section performed here, titled “The Renowned Choreographers Correspondence School of the Dance,” (at 16:56) was performed again by George Willis in 2018.
Watch the full 1974 performance in the USC Digital Library: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll105/id/1391
And the 2018 version here: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll105/id/1396/rec/1
We're sharing occasional highlights from our new Dance Heritage Video Archive, developed in partnership with the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance and with a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation. Javier SepĂşlveda Garibay, our dance preservation and digital projects librarian, writes of this clip:
Viver Brasil was founded in 1997 by artistic directors Linda Yudin and Luiz Badaro as a portal for diverse communities to experience dance through the vibrant expression of Afro-Brazilian music and culture. Viver Brasil honors Brazil’s African legacy through contemporary dance set to live music. Presented here is Candomblé, an Afro-Brazilian religious dance meant to honor the gods. Candomblé has no texts, but rather exists as an oral tradition. The religion brings together the traditions of enslaved African priests, elements of Catholicism, and indigenous American traditions.
Find the full video at the USC Digital Library: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll105/id/1306/rec/4
Dance-Network presents The San Francisco Butoh Festival "Women in Butoh"
We're sharing occasional highlights from our new Dance Heritage Video Archive, developed in partnership with the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance and with a generous grant from The Andrew W Mellon Foundation. Javier SepĂşlveda Garibay, our dance preservation and digital projects librarian, writes of this clip:
Butoh is a form of Japanese dance theater that gained popularity after World War II. Defined by its rawness and crude physical gestures, dancers of this form move eerily and jaggedly in ways that evoke distress and suffering. Co-creator Tatsumi Hijikata purposefully sought to develop a form that rejected Western styles of dance such as ballet and modern in exchange for an aesthetic that embodied the form and movements of common people. Watch as performers from Dance-Network—on a dimly lit stage at the 1996 San Francisco Butoh Festival—put pain and compassion at odds in “Women in Butoh”.
Find the full video at the USC Digital Library: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll105/id/111/rec/60
Lost LA Season 4 Sneak Peek
The fourth season of #LostLA—our Emmy Award-winning co-production with KCET that explores Southern California history through archival collections—premieres Tuesday, October 15. Here's a sneak peek.
Groomless | Dance Heritage Video Archive
Over the coming weeks, we're sharing highlights from our new Dance Heritage Video Archive, developed in partnership with the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance and with a generous grant from The Andrew W Mellon Foundation.
Picture yourself walking through a university campus—in this case, California State University, Los Angeles—minding your own business, when faint percussive sounds catch your ear. You look around, and up on a walkway cover you spot a gang of brides, raking in sync, then walking off in a procession. This is Heidi Duckler's "Groomless." Known for creating place-based performance pieces, Duckler uses non-traditional spaces for her work in order to, in her words, “change our vision of the world and of ourselves.”
See the full video in the Dance Heritage Video Archive: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll105/id/1290
Holiday greetings from Dean Catherine Quinlan and the USC Libraries. Special thanks to the many communities with which we work to support intellectual and creative achievement at USC, in Los Angeles, throughout California, and around the world.
