Images from the Preserving Bay Area Dance Legacies project

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Description

Preserving Bay Area Dance Legacies presents highlights from key San Francisco Bay-Area based dancers/choreographers whose papers are a part of the Elyse Eng Dance Collection at the Museum of Performance + Design. Dancer/choreographers represented in this exhibit include Carlos Carvajal, Gary Palmer, Welland Lathrop, and June Watanabe.

This collection includes images featured in the exhibit pages for these choreographers as well as images digitized from these choreographer's collections throughout the project.

Subject

Carvajal, Carlos, 1931-
Lathrop, Welland
Palmer, Gary
Watanabe, June

Source

Carlos Carvajal Papers
Welland Lathrop Papers
Gary Palmer Papers
June Watanabe Papers

Collection Items

Gary Palmer Dance Company in "Suitcases and Strangers", 1992
Gary Palmer Dance Company in "Suitcases and Strangers", 1992

Lucas Hoving, circa 1982-1984
Portrait of Lucas Hoving in promotion for Men Dancing, circa 1982-1984

Gary Palmer Dance Company in "Suitcases and Strangers"
Joe Alter, Amanda Goldman, Todd Courage, Melissa Moss, Eileen McCullogh in a performance of Gary Palmer's Suitcases and Strangers, 1992

Gary Palmer Dance Company in "Suitcases and Strangers"
Gary Palmer Dance Company in a performance of Suitcases and Strangers, featuring Amanda Goldman, Joe Alter, and Melissa Moss. 

Gary Palmer
Gary Palmer portrait for promotion of the Gary Palmer Dance Company at the Centerspace 10th Anniversary Celebration

Carlos Carvajal in Derac's "The Tragedy of Orpheus", circa 1961-1963
Carlos Carvajal in a performance of Jean Derac's "The Tragedy of Orpheus" with the Bremen Opera, circa 1961-1963

Rael Lamb and Bruce Bain in Carvajal's "Totentanz", 1982
Rael Lamb and Bruce Bain in a performance of Carlos Carvajal's "Totentanz", at the Grace Cathedral, 1982. This was the final performance for Dance Spectrum

Anton Ness in Carvajal's "Totentanz", 1971
Anton Ness as "Death" in a perfromance of Caros Carvajal's "Totentanz" at Grace Cathedral, 1971

Dance Spectrum in Carvajal's "Facade", circa 1970s
Dance Spectrum in a performance of Carlos Carvajal's Facade, circa 1970s. Perfomers pictured include Carolyn Houser Carvajal, Carlos Carvajal, Bruce Bain, and Virgil Pearson Smith.

Carlos Carvajal in "Sleeping Beauty", circa 1961
Carlos Carvajal as the African Prince (for the Rose Adagio) in a performance of Grand Ballet de Marquis de Cuevas's Sleeping Beauty, circa 1961
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