Photo Gallery: Al Huang
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Photo Gallery: Gloria Newman Dance Theater
A collection of 94 photos highlighting the Gloria Newman Dance Theater. All images courtesy of the Jeff Schoenberg Archive. This feature is currently being reworked. Please check back again in the near future. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
Love At My First Plié
In this article, Jeff Slayton writes of his life in dance. The article covers his time with the Merce Cunningham and the Viola Farber dance companies and his career in Los Angeles and Long Beach since 1978. Included is his…
Reflections on Gloria Newman (From Former Dance Company Members)
The following are recollections by various former Gloria Newman Dance Theater members. ALVIN MAYES I would hear “catch,” and turn around to see a big blonde woman flying through the air into my arms. Of course that was Joella. She…
Agnes De Mille Said: “You Won’t Catch Me Doing That!”
Dancer Iris Pell writes of her experience performing “Lewitzky Floor Exercises” in “Conversations About the Dance”, a lecture demonstration that was created by Agnes DeMille in 1980 and was videotaped at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles for the PBS…
Dancers For Life 1991-2009
Jo Dierdorff, Professor of Dance at Riverside Community College produced a series of fifteen concerts to benefit the fight against HIV/AIDS. In response to this pandemic, more than 150 dancers, choreographers, musicians, and designers from Southern California and other regions…
A History of the AMAN Folk Ensemble and the AVAZ International Dance Theatre
Anthony Shay is an Associate Professor of Dance at Pomona College. He is the founder of AMAN, which became one of the largest and most influential folk dance ensembles in America. He writes of the early history of the Los Angeles-based group, which…
Notes on Ballet: History and Teaching in the L.A. Area
This article appears in two parts: In Part 1, Don Hewitt writes of his life as a ballet artist/teacher in Los Angeles for more than forty years. In Part 2, he provides an extensive overview of Southern California’s many important ballet teachers, their schools…
Video: Iris Pell Floor Exercises
The following video clip is an excerpt from the PBS presentation, “Conversations About the Dance”, hosted by Agnes de Mille. The clip is a demonstration of Bella Lewitzky’s technique, with Iris Pell performing solo floor exercises. This was first performed…
Agnes de Mille: Particular Passions, Women of Wisdom
This chapter from Lynn Gilbert’s book, published in 1981, is reprinted here in its entirety, with permission from the author.