Bella Rebecca Lewitzky was an American modern dance choreographer, dancer and teacher.
Lewitzky in a 1949 performance of The Warsaw Ghetto
Poster of Lewitzky company dancer Claudia Ross in Inscape (1976)
Lewitzky (third from left) at the planned site of the Dance Gallery in 1988
Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance which includes dance styles such as ballet, folk, ethnic, religious, and social dancing; and primarily arose out of Europe and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was considered to have been developed as a rejection of, or rebellion against, classical ballet, and also a way to express social concerns like socioeconomic and cultural factors.
Martha Graham in 1948
Isadora Duncan in 1903
Dancer at the Laban school, Berlin 1929
Martha Graham and Bertram Ross in 1961; photo by Carl van Vechten