Kurt Weill (1988)
Using the music of Kurt Weill, this six-part dance combines the powerful impact of the understated Sokolow gesture with her ability to translate musical pulse and cadences into rhythmic expression.
Repertory
Magritte, Magritte (1970)
Inspired by the paintings of the Belgian artist Rene Magritte, Ms. Sokolow created an extraordinary surrealist dance-theater piece that carries Magritte’s images into action.
From the Diaries of Franz Kafka (1981)
One of Ms. Sokolow’s most handsome weavings into theater-dance of works of art and literature. A re-creation with brutal conviction of the writer’s sense of chill isolation in an overbearing world.
Odes (1965)
A luminous, searing vision of humanity, unsparing in its demands for intense physical concentration and dramatic depth.
Ride the Culture Loop (1975)
A bus route through New York’s patchwork of ethnic neighborhoods was the inspiration for this dance, jazz being the aural equivalent of the alienation and social schisms Sokolow was exploring.
Rooms (1955)
“Rooms” deals with the psychic isolation and unfulfilled desires of people living in the big city. The jazz score by Kenyon Hopkins catches the pulse and beat of modern society. An enduring masterpiece of twentieth-century art.