http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress Sokolow Theatre Dance Ensemble - Fall 2010 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:34:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=87 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=87#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:15:06 +0000 admin http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=87 Magritte, Magritte (1970) was Anna Sokolow’s multi-media masterpiece that gave rise to the theatre/dance genre, and is one of the most influential modern dance works ever created. You can now purchase a DVD of the full-scale work from our website at a special centennial price.]]> http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=87 0 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=608 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=608#comments Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:00:31 +0000 Francesca http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=608 Jim May will teach a Sokolow Repertory Workshop at the Peridance Capezio Center. All levels are welcome. Male dancers taking this workshop will be considered for Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble's upcoming performances.]]> http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=608 0 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=562 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=562#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 04:16:29 +0000 Francesca http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=562 Tickets: www.joyce.org or call 212.242.0800 Thursday April 22, Gala Event  8 pm (reception to follow) $45 Friday-Saturday April 23-24, 8 pm – $20 Sunday April 25, 3 pm – $20 ***** PROGRAM THE EVOLUTION OF RAGTIME (1952) MURALS (1980) NY Premier SEPTEMBER SONNET (1995) FRIDA (1997) Choreographer: Anna Sokolow Artistic Director: Jim May Dancers: Melissa [...]]]> http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=562 0 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=549 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=549#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:44:29 +0000 Francesca http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=549 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=549 0 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=485 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=485#comments Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:40:39 +0000 Francesca http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=485 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=485 0 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=328 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=328#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:30:35 +0000 Francesca http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=328 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=328 0 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=392 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=392#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 15:42:00 +0000 Francesca http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=392 Taught by Jim May “We see in a person’s work what he asks from life and from art. Art should recognize all our needs.” as said by Anna Sokolow, a disciple of Martha Graham and Louis Horst. Continuing the historic tradition of these legends, Artistic Director Jim May is a devoted descendant of Ms. Sokolow and [...]]]> http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=392 0 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=201 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=201#comments Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:49:53 +0000 Francesca http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=201 Francesca Todesco, member of the Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble, offers children’s classes in Hoboken, New Jersey. Teachers this year include Jim May, artistic director of the Sokolow Ensemble, and Melissa Birnbaum, member of the Sokolow Ensemble. Visit the new website at www.everylittlemovement.com for more details. Class Schedule MONDAYS 3:10 – 4:10 Modern Dance I (age 6-8) 9/14 [...]]]> http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=201 0 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=235 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=235#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:49:50 +0000 Jim http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=235 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=235 0 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=239 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=239#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:32:43 +0000 Jim http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=239 The Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble is planning a year-long festival of events and activities to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Anna Sokolow's birthday.]]> http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=239 0 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=238 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=238#comments Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:21:02 +0000 Jim http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=238 Dreams and Other Dances April 23 – April 26, 2009 The Sokolow Ensemble returned to the Merce Cunningham Studio with a season that included Anna Sokolow’s lyical BALLADE to the piano preludes of Scriabin, and her masterpiece DREAMS, depicting her haunting nightmares of the Holocaust. Also on the program …ON A DARKLING PLAIN, an illuminating [...]]]> http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=238 0 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=189 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=189#comments Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:39:57 +0000 Francesca http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=189 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=189 0 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=15 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=15#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:15:13 +0000 admin http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=15 The Sokolow Theatre Dance Ensemble performed Anna Sokolow's Session for Six and an excerpt from Lyric Suite in the American Dance Guild 2008 Performance Festival, September 11-14, 2008. ]]> http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=15 0 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=1 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=1#comments Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:05:24 +0000 admin http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=1 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=1 0 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=79 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=79#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 01:34:49 +0000 admin http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=79 Anna Sokolow went to Mexico in 1939 and began an intimate lifelong relationship that continues today through the Sokolow Theatre Dance Ensemble. Last May, 2008, Jim May, artistic director, and company members Lauren Naslund and Samantha Geracht reconstructed Ms. Sokolow’s last work, Frida, at the Northwest Vista College in San Antonio, Texas, which was awarded an NEA [...]]]> http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=79 0 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=69 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=69#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:18:47 +0000 admin http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=69 The Sokolow Theatre Dance Ensemble's spring season at the Merce Cunningham Studio]]> http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=69 0 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=121 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=121#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:32:29 +0000 admin http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=121   April 26-28, 2007 at 8pm Joyce Soho, New York City For our spring concert at Joyce Soho, the Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble celebrated 70 years of the choreography of Anna Sokolow by presenting As I Remember, a suite of three early solo works: “Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter” (1945), “Kaddish” (1945), and “Ballad [...]]]> http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=121 0 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=32 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=32#comments Tue, 01 Aug 2006 22:44:25 +0000 admin http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=32 “Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble keeps Anna Sokolow’s legacy, described by critic Walter Sorell as ‘theater danced and danced theater,’ alive. For this program, artistic director Jim May restaged Sokolow’s quintessential dance-theater piece Magritte, Magritte (1970), which hasn’t been performed for more than 20 years; the evening also showcased the U.S. premieres of two 2004 works inspired [...]]]> http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=32 0 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=44 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=44#comments Sat, 08 Jul 2006 23:10:09 +0000 admin http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=44   “The coupling of the Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble and le concert impromptu in Ship of Fools may be one of the best things to happen to Franco-American relations in a long, long time. The dance and music give birth to an eclectic night of entertainment, enhancement, and celebration. Eight pieces choreographed by Anna Sokolow based [...]]]> http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=44 0 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=37 http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=37#comments Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:54:30 +0000 admin http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?p=37 “The Sokolow Theater / Dance Ensemble performed with gravitas and nuance at St. Mark’s Church last Sunday November 14th. The show consisted of two distinct sections: the heart-wrenching, jaw-droppingly brilliant Rooms, and a potpourri of repertory miscellany. Rooms (1955) depicts the isolation and desperation of urban existence, and I believe, is the first composition in [...]]]> http://sokolowtheatredance.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=37 0