‘Bella’ Opens Theatrically at the Laemmle Royal in Los Angeles — November 10, 2023
<p>“Modern Dance means nothing,” Bella says, “except that it is not ballet”. That explanation finally made it clear to me just what I would see when I watched Bella Lewitsky or Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, John Cage or others, all so very different from one another and not categorizable. Interpretive or modern dance is movement. When Lewistsky began in L.A. in 1934 with the Lester Horton Troupe, it became an aesthetic, starting with the exercise, “How many ways can you rise from the floor?”</p>
<p>When I took interpretive dance in the late 1950s on Hilgard, just next to the church, in Westwood with Else Finley, it was to experience movement. When I was in high school and went to the classes of Bella Lewitsky, I still did not understand “modern dance” and did not go beyond my first few lessons. But as I watched this documentary, I understood that dance for the pure joy of movement is modern dance.</p>
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