BELLA LEWITZKY RECEIVES CAPEZIO AWARD.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of CITY--Bella Lewitzky will be awarded the 1999 Capezio/Ballet Makers Dance Foundation Annual Dance Award in a ceremony on May 10 in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . "I feel I've earned it," the eighty-three-year-old Lewitzky laughs. "As my husband says, it's better late than never." A dancer, choreographer, teacher, and advocate of dance, Lewitzky retired in 1997, after thirty-one seasons as the artistic director of the Lewitzky Dance Company and sixty-three years as a concert dancer. Born in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. to Russian immigrant parents and raised in a utopian socialist colony in the Mojave desert Mojave or Mohave Desert, c.15,000 sq mi (38,850 sq km), region of low, barren mountains and flat valleys, 2,000 to 5,000 ft (610–1,524 m) high, S Calif.; part of the Great Basin of the United States. , Lewitzky began studying modern dance in Los Angeles with Lester Horton, later becoming his leading dancer and collaborator and a master teacher of his technique. In 1948 she cofounded the Dance Theater of Los Angeles with Horton; Carmen Carmen throws over lover for another. [Fr. Lit.: Carmen; Fr. Opera: Bizet, Carmen, Westerman, 189–190] See : Faithlessness Carmen the cards repeatedly spell her death. [Fr. de Lavallade and Alvin Ailey are among the dancers who studied there. In 1951 Lewitzky opened her own school and company, Dance Associates, where she focused on her own technique and choreography. In 1955, after the birth of her daughter, Nora, she taught at Idyllwild School of Music and Arts and in 1958 became chair of the dance department. She was later the founding dean of the school of dance at California Institute of the Arts California Institute of the Arts known as CalArts U.S. private institution of higher learning in Valencia. Created in 1961 through the merger of two other art institutes, it was the first in the U.S. . In 1966, at age 50, Lewitzky formed the Lewitzky Dance Company, in which she continued to perform as well as choreograph and direct. She is known for her great inventiveness, meticulous craftsmanship, and formidable control and placement. Lewitzky is the recipient of numerous awards, including six honorary doctorates, the 1978 Dance Magazine Award, and the National Medal of Arts The National Medal of Arts is an award and title created by the Congress of the United States in 1984, for the purpose of honoring artists and patrons of the arts. It is the highest honor conferred to an individual artist on behalf of the people. . She currently lives in New Mexico and tours and lectures on dance. She is also known for her political activism in protesting against Senator Joseph McCarthy and others of the House Committee on Un-American Activities during the 1950s. In 1991 she successfully sued the National Endowment of the Arts for their "anti-obscenity" clause violating grantees' First Amendment rights. When asked if there's any one particular aspect of her career that stands out, Lewitzky says no. "I love all the things that I have done; I am fairly good at what I do, and it's a very satisfying profession. I feel very blessed to have been able to have it." |
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