The Sokolow Ensemble is offering in 2013-14, partnership program with other dance communities as part of a special celebration of Ms. Sokolow’s 75 years relationship with Mexico were she was a key figure in that country’s Modern dance. View video clips from Frida FRIDA: 15 minutes-5 sections with music Chavez, Revueltas, Lola Beltran, Rodrigo, 12-16 … Continue reading 75 Years of Sokolow and Mexico: A Celebration
The Sokolow Ensemble will perform “The Unanswered Question”, an excerpt from Anna Sokolow’s “Scenes from the music of Charles Ives” (1971).
“‘Odes’ remains a luminous work deserving a place of honor.”
Sounds of Sokolow Part II: Odes (1965). Anna Sokolow’s “ODES”; the electric music of Edgard Varèse; the Merce Cunningham Studio….an appropriate fit for the Sokolow Theatre Dance Ensemble’s fall season happening on November 10-13.
The Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble now has a FaceBook page!
Dear Friends, THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE SOKOLOW ENSEMBLE! Thanks to your pledges on kickstarter, we were able to reach our goal of $5,500! Your donations will go towards producing our Sounds of Sokolow project with live music. We are deeply grateful to everyone who supported this project as well as our fabulous audience. Check … Continue reading THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!
November 30 and December 9 at the Baryshnikov Art Center. In collaboration with Fusion Bande, musical director Kenneth Hamrick, with guest singer Paula Valstein. Performance of Anna Sokolow’s Kurt Weill, music by Kurt Weill, and a vintage video by Vicki Siechek of Anna Sokolow creating Kurt Weill. First in a three-part series featuring Sokolow masterworks as part of a live music initiative.
For the venerable Anna Sokolow, who would have been 100 this year — she made it to 90 — art wasn’t an understated or passive act, but something meant to be a reflection and a comment on contemporary life.
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 … Continue reading Sokolow Ensemble at Joyce SoHo
April 22-25, 2010
Sokolow Ensemble artistic director, with the assistance of company members Samantha Geracht and Lauren Naslund, staged Anna Sokolow’s Rooms and From the Diaries of Franz Kafka on students at the Boston Conservatory, which they performed in February 2010. From Marcia Siegel’s review: “For today’s young dancers, who are focused on technical skills, vintage material like … Continue reading Review: Rooms and Kafka performed by Boston Conservatory students
