Searching for the Goddess: a dancer's odyssey

Metadata

Title

Searching for the Goddess: a dancer's odyssey

Date Created

1993

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.

Creators and Contributors

Creator: Hawkins, Anne
Interviewer: Hawkins, Anne
Editor: Freidman, Jeff
Interviewee: Miller, Jamie
Copyright holder: Museum of Performance and Design

Subject Topic

Modern dance
Belly dance
Philosophy, Buddhist
Communism

Subject Entity

Miller, Jamie
Horton, Lester, 1906-1953
Lewitzky, Bella
Graham, Martha
Hawkins, Erick
Ivanova, Sonia, 1912-1985

Genre

Oral histories

Place(s)

San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)

Language

English

Media type

Sound

Generation

Master

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Country of Creation

United States

Source Institution

Museum of Performance + Design

Link to Internet Archive

http://archive.org/details/csfpal_000029

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