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Date: 08-26/08-27 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Poster advertising Shanti and the Sufi Choir at the House of Good in San Francisco. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1972-09-11 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Poster advertising The Monday Night Sufi Meeting with Sheikh Wali Ali and the Sufi Choir at California Hall in San Francisco. The Sufi Choir was inspired by Samuel Lewis. They practiced for awhile in the 1970s at Scott Hall at the San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo. The Presbyt... View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1974-04-26 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Poster advertising Whole Earth Festival including the Sufi Choir at University of California, Davis. The first Whole Earth Festival was held there in 1969. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1972-01-16 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Poster advertising the Meeting of the Ways held at the Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan was the oldest son of Samuel L. Lewis's teacher, Hazrat Inayat Khan. The two promoted Sufism in the West. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1969-11-22 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Poster advertising Sufi Choir, Comin' Down Soon, at the Veterans Auditorium in San Francisco. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: no date Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Will Noffke (1929-1997), a Bay Area public radio host in the 1970s and 1980s, was especially fond of Sufi music and dance. Within his archives is a small collection on Murshid Samuel L. Lewis (1896-1971), founder of the Dances of Universal Peace. Lewis studied Zen and Sufism but his dances were ... View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1972-03-20 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Poster advertising the Sufi Choir performing "The Love Story of Humanity, Mother of the World, a living theatre experience" at Nourse Auditorium in San Francisco. Staging and choreography by Pageants of Universal Peace. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1990s Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: “The Passion According to Mary” is danced danced by David McCauley and Christine Self. Carla DeSola did the choreography in the late 1970s. Photography by Sue Self. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1992 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: In 1990, Doug Adams invited Carla DeSola to join the faculty of the Pacific School of Religion (PSR) at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. Omega East members Allan Tung and Sandra Rivera took over the company. In Berkeley, DeSola founded the Omega West Dance Company, a sim... View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1982 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Carla DeSola dances "Gloria," choreographed by fellow dancer Allan Tung, in the practice studio at St. John View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1992 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: In preparation for her labyrinth dance, Carla DeSola visited the labyrinth in Robert Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve in the East Bay. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1982 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: In 1974, Carla DeSola founded the Omega Liturgical Dance Company. In 1976, James P. Morton, Dean of Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in Manhatten, invited the dance company to make its home at the famed cathedral. She built a sacred dance studio in the cathedral’s crypt. They performed fo... View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1995 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Carla DeSola created a dance “Behold the Arms of God” based on the Winged Figure at GTU Library. Here the dance is performed at Newman Center in Berkeley, California. The dancers are Nona McCaleb, David McCauley, Christine Self and Janet Weeks. Photography by Susan Self. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1995 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Carla DeSola created a dance “Behold the Arms of God” based on the Winged Figure at GTU Library. Here the dance is performed at Newman Center in Berkeley, California. The dancers are Nona McCaleb, David McCauley, Christine Self and Janet Weeks. Photography by Susan Self. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1984-04-14 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Carla DeSola participated in a peace pilgrimage from Chimayo to Los Alamos, New Mexico. Here she dances as part of the prayer ceremony at Ashley Pond, Los Alamos. She remembers dancing the “Gloria” from the Misa Creolla, “Giving glory for the fruits, beauty of the earth per Missa.” View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1985-10-04 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Among the highlights of Carla DeSola's years at St John the Divine is creating Omega’s repertoire for the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, known as the Missa Gaia or “Earth Mass,” with music by the Paul Winters Consort and the Cathedral Choir in 1985. DeSola provided the choreography for Canticle... View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1985-10-04 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Among the highlights of Carla DeSola's years at St John the Divine is creating Omega’s repertoire for the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, known as the Missa Gaia or “Earth Mass,” with music by the Paul Winters Consort and the Cathedral Choir in 1985. DeSola provided the choreography for Canticle... View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1980s Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Carla DeSola and Allan Tung, the choreographer, dances “Dream of Pilate’s Wife” in the dance studio at St. John. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1985-10-04 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Among the highlights of Carla DeSola's years at St John the Divine is creating Omega’s repertoire for the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, known as the Missa Gaia or “Earth Mass,” with music by the Paul Winters Consort and the Cathedral Choir in 1985. DeSola provided the choreography for Canticle... View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1990s Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: “The Passion According to Mary” is danced danced by David McCauley and Christine Self. Carla DeSola did the choreography in the late 1970s. Photography by Sue Self. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union