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Title
Searching for the Goddess: a dancer's odyssey
Creator
Hawkins, Anne
Freidman, Jeff
Miller, Jamie
Date Created and/or Issued
1993
Contributing Institution
Museum of Performance and Design, Performing Arts Library
Collection
California Revealed from Museum of Performance and Design
Rights Information
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Description
Miller studied modern dance with Lester Horton and Bella Lewitzky. She has taught and performed belly dance and creative moment in the Bay Area since 1965. Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins, and Sonia Ivanova are some of the people she talks about in the interview. She also talks about Buddhist philosophy and communism.
Interview conducted for the Legacy Oral History Project.
California Preservation Service (CAPS)
Type
sound
Format
Master
Form/Genre
Oral histories
Identifier
csfpal_000029_t01; csfpal_000029_t02; csfpal_000029_t03; csfpal_000029_t04; csfpal_000029_t05
Language
English
Subject
Modern dance--California--San Francisco Bay Area
Belly dance
Philosophy, Buddhist
Communism
Miller, Jamie
Horton, Lester, 1906-1953
Lewitzky, Bella
Graham, Martha
Hawkins, Erick
Ivanova, Sonia, 1912-1985
Provenance
Museum of Performance + Design
California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.

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