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
February 14th, 2010 3 pm performance at the 92nd Street Y (@ Lexington Ave) Sokolow Theatre Dance Ensemble opens a year in celebrations of Anna Sokolow’s 100th Birthday. Celebrate with us Anna Sokolow’s 100th Birthday. Whether in Contemporary dance; ROOMS, Broadway; HAIR, or ballet; OPUS 65 Her dance presents a subtle synthesis of acting and … Continue reading Sokolow Birthday Tribute
February 14th at the 92nd St Y
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.
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 … Continue reading Merce Cunningham Studio Concert 2009
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.
On Friday, Dec. 17, the Sokolow Theatre Dance Ensemble participated in a benefit, organized by STDE’s Francesca Todesco, for the Hoboken Homeless Shelter. Melissa Birnbaum, Eleanor Bunker, Samantha Geracht, Lauren Naslund, Francesca, and Gabriel Zaragoza performed Session for Six. David Parker and the Bang Group performed excerpts from Nut Cracked and Francesca performed several solos by Isadora … Continue reading Hoboken Homeless Shelter Benefit
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 … Continue reading Anna Sokolow’s Frida in San Antonio – Crossing Borders
The Sokolow Theatre Dance Ensemble’s spring season at the Merce Cunningham Studio