Rooms: Workshops and Repertory for Distance Learning
Unpacking the quarantine experience with Anna Sokolow’s Rooms (1955) for dance programs.
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Dancing together in isolation
In a new world of self-isolation, the Sokolow Theatre Dance Ensemble will be reinterpreting The Unanswered Question and Rooms in a new (to us) medium of video chat.
April & June 2020: Performances CANCELLED
Real+Surreal: Rooms and Magritte, Magritte. April 17. 18, 19, 25 and 26 at the Mark O’Donnell Theater at the Actors Fund Arts Center in Brooklyn.
Ongoing classes – Beyond Technique
The Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble is once again offering ongoing classes, Friday mornings.
Rooms
The year 2020 marks the 65th anniversary of Anna Sokolow’s masterpiece Rooms. The Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble will present Rooms along with Magritte, Magritte in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Magritte, Magritte!
Coming in Spring 2020, Anna Sokolow’s surrealist masterwork MAGRITTE, MAGRITTE.
Sept 20 – (PARK)ing Day!
As New Yorkers know, great things can happen in small spaces. This Friday, the Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble will participate in (Park)ing Day, an annual international event where city parking spaces are transformed into miniature parks.
May 26-31 Italy: Sokolow Repertory Workshop
May 26-31, 2019, Lecce and Bari, Italy. Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble founder and director Jim May will teach a Sokolow repertory workshop, and direct and perform in two concerts, sponsored by Koreoproject.
Meet Our Guest Artists
The Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble is honored to be joined for our 2019 spring season by three accomplished guest artists: choreographer Robert E. Cleary, costume designer Epperson, and dancer Daniel Fetecua Soto.
2019 Spring Season
Our 2019 spring season, “I’m not here to be polite…”, will featured a reconstruction of Sokolow’s 1973 work, “Three Poems,” “Steps of Silence,” “This is Not America” by guest choreographer Robert Cleary of Kanopy Dance, “The Desperate Heart” by Valerie Bettis, and “Sleeping Bouquet” by Jim May.