Music: Schumann, Mahler, Roset, Schoenberg, Jewish liturgical music
10-12 dancers, one featured soloist, 30 minutes
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.
“From the very beginning…there was a rightness to the proceedings that seemed inevitable, inexorable and even intoxicating. …the depth of the artistry presented was as rare as it was welcome.”
Aaron Cohen, In Step, 1981