Choreography of Anna Sokolow, Charles Weidman, and Claudia Gitelman, set to the music of Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Bach, and Schubert.
December 12 & 13, 2024, 7:00 pm
Stone Circle Theatre
59-14 70th Avenue, Ridgewood, New York 11385
Seeking light in the dark of midwinter, the Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble is preparing a program of soaring dances that manifest joy in deep and nuanced ways. For the first time, the company will bring together dances from across the generations from three traditions of modern dance.
Anna Sokolow’s Ballade, perhaps her most lyrical dance, explores the restlessness and inconclusiveness of young love, performed to music by Scriabin. Sokolow’s Preludes, reconstructed by Tonia Shimin, for whom it was created, is a rich and expressive homage to the music of Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Guest director Pamela Levy is reconstructing an excerpt from Claudia Gitelman’s Schubert And The Birds, set to a Schubert Impromptu, a poignant and dynamic work that showcases both Gitelman’s Hanya Holm roots with her own brand of abstract storytelling.
Guest director Gail Corbin is reconstructing excerpts of Charles Weidman’s glorious, rarely seen tour de force to the music of J.S. Bach, Christmas Oratorio.
The program will also include a premiere choreographed and performed by ST/DE company members Margaret Mighty Oak Brackey and Krista Jansen. Inspired by memories of snow and the loss of its magic in a changing climate, Forecast unites delight, mourning, and reminiscence.
Photographs by Jaqlin Medlock
JOY: Dances for Midwinter
Thu Dec 12 & Fri Dec 13 at 7:00 pm
Stone Circle Theatre
59-14 70th Avenue, Ridgewood (Queens), NY 11385
Tickets: $25 (plus $3.14 transaction fee)
The theater is in the Ridgewood Presbyterian Church.
Directions by subway:
L train to Halsey St., walk 3 long blocks north on George St., cross Myrtle Ave. and walk 1 short block north on Forest Ave. Turn right on 70th Ave.
M train to Forest Ave., walk 5 1/2 short blocks south to 70th Ave. Turn left on 70th Ave.
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Photographs by Jaqlin Medlock