Lewitzky left Horton in 1950 to go her own way, choreographically. Lewitzky has been actively concerned with the development of dance in the United States, and this interest has led to her involvement in a number of organizations related to the growth of dance. Lewitzky received three major grants for an artistic director's discretionary fund from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Lewitzky's company has earned major grants from the James Irvine Foundation and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and Challenge Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. The play will be presented in Italian with English supertitles projected on a screen.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Set in the late 1920s, La Morsa is the story of Giulia Fabbri who has been having an affair with her husband's lawyer, Antonio Serra. Giulia's husband, Andrea, discovers the affair and the play climaxes with a confrontation between husband and wife. Giulia struggles with the guilt and responsibility she feels as she watches her marriage, and consequently her life, fall apart. La Morsa is the senior project of Gabrielle C. Seailles, culminating her four years of study at Wells College as an arts and performance major and Italian minor. Seailles produces and directs, as well as stars as Giulia.