Rooms

February 24, 1955 Theresa L. KAUFMANN AUDITORIUM, YM/YWHA , NEW YORK  (WP)
1. "ALONE"
2. "DREAM"
3. "ESCAPE"
4. "GOING"
5. "DESIRE"
6. "PANIC"
7. "DAYDREAM"
8. "THE END?"
9. "ALONE"

MUSIC: KENYON HOPKINS
           
COSTUMES: DONALD MCKAYLE
DANCERS: EVE BECK, JUDITH COY, SANDRA PINE, BEATRICE SECKLER, JEFF DUNCAN, DONALD MCKAYLE, JACK MOORE, PAUL SANASARDO
AMONG THE ORIGINAL JAZZ GROUP: Teo Macero, Clem DeRosa(Da Rosa), Charles Mingus, Hall Overton,
and Bart Wallace conducted by the composer
 

Rooms was  choreographed at the Actors Studio.
 

FILM, 1977, 16 MM, B & W , MH/JS
FILM : DWIGHT GODWIN
PRODUCTION AND FILMING SUPERVISION: MARTHA HILL
DANCERS: JUILLIARD DANCE ENSEMBLE
 

26 APR 1967
THE JOFFREY BALLET,
HARPOUR THEATRE, STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON
 
 

JAC VENZA, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF PUBLIC TELEVISION'S :"DANCE IN AMERICA" SERIES ON PBS (1966)
A REVISE FOR TELEVISION (TWENTY-NINE-MINUTES VERSION)  (THE MIDS-1960S)

LIMON COMPANY MEMBER DANIEL LEWIS ORGANIZED A GROUP IN DECEMBER 1975  "A TRIBUTE TO ANNA SOKOLOW"  AT THE AMERICAN PLACE THEATRE
 

ALVIN AILEY'S PRODUCTION OF ROOMS,
Jennifer Dunning writes in her book "Alvin Ailey-A life in Dance": "The dance was loneliness and anguish laid bare.Alvin loved it intellectually, admiring the piece for the way it reflected the paintings of Yves Tanguy that had been its inspiration, as Alvin told one interviewer, referring to his own works as "Rodin dance". Rooms has a kind of linear sculpture to it. Everything is terrible simple, terribly honed, honed down to its finest elements, so that you see only what Anna Sokolow wants you to see".

Marcia B. Siegel in her book : "The shapes of change - Images of American Dance"  focuses  on this work

Modern Dance: The Second Generation (No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century)
 
 




SUNY Brockport.( Dancers: Ze'eva Cohen, Jack Moore, Jeff Duncan, Margaret Cicierska, Martha Clarke, Kathryn Posin, Ray Cook, Chester Wolenski.)  1966. (29 min.)

 Rooms" (1966), choreographed by Anna Sokolow (1955) to music by Kenyon Hopkins. Danced by
Ze'eva Cohen (Escape), Jack Moore (Going), Jeff Duncan (Panic), Margaret Cicerska, Martha Clarke, Kathryn Posin,
Ray Cook, and Chester Wolenski.

Ze'eva Cohen

Dance in the Age of Anxiety

 Nederlands Dance Theatre- 1960     picture

 Indiana: black and White/Monochrome; sound; 1966 ; 30 minutes;  WNET production

Jac Venza's 1966 film

16 mm film list B&W 30min - 1966

Entstanden ist das Werk in 1954! Chor. Anna Sokolow. Könnte von Heute sein!

 Players' project

Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble

 Lyric theatre - Israel

Resources for Educators - The Repertory Etudes Project

Reconstructed by Jim May/Lorry May

Reconstructed by Jim May/Lorry May

 DNB - Solos available in Labanotation

Jazz soundtrack:  A release with teo macero, bart wallace, wendal marshall, clem de rosa, and dick collins

 JAZZ ORIENTED SCORE FOR A MODERN BALLET

 CLP-1019

Rooms - Kenyon Hopkins

Arts Education -Dance Curricula - Preservation, Education and Access - Etudes Workshops - "Rooms Etude"

 The Etudes Project

 Dance Notation Bureau

New Dance Group

National television

 Jac Venza - Rooms

PBS - Ailey

Joffrey - PDF

 The Oakland Ballet

Rooms

Dramatic Classics

Dance Students

Rooms

Danny Grossman : January 28 - February 1, 2004

The New York dance company Sokolow Theatre Dance Ensemble meets le concert impromptu

Rooms

Rooms

"The End," a solo from Anna Sokolow's 1955 "Rooms,"

Photo

Recent Production -  photo

Rooms

Dancefusion  celebrate the 50th anniversary of Anna Sokolow’ masterpiece Rooms

The Soul Of Jazz

Kun-Yang Lin and Dancers join the Anna Sokolow Archive Company to perform "Rooms"

Demonstration or workshop on 'Rooms' Repertory Etude from Anna Sokolow's dance

October 27-29, 2006

October, 2006

Jan 20, 2007

Rooms

New Photos


Anna Sokolow Choreographs Lessons in Sorrow

The  Limon Dance Company will revive Rooms - PDF


THE LIMON DANCE COMPANY TO PERFORM ANNA SOKOLOW'S  1955 WORK "ROOMS'

Reviving 'Rooms'  - "I realize how far ahead of her time she really was"..."Emotion creates the motion"

Schedule for Limon performances of "Rooms"


Oberon's Grove: Event Horizon: Limon Dance Company

Limon - University of Florida

José Limón and Anna Sokolow's Rooms

Rooms - DANCE REVIEW by By Victoria Looseleaf - Los Angeles Times, October 21. 2008

Dance Magazine,  Oct, 2008  by Rose Anne Thom

Holland Dance Festival

Rooms

Betwixt and Between – Diálogo com Rooms, de Anna Sokolow - Photo


Anna Sokolow's "Rooms"  by Jose Limon Dance Co. Last Night Blew Me Right Away, December 3, 2008

Limon Dance - Company

The New York Times - Dance Review by CLAUDIA LA ROCCO - LIMÓN DANCE COMPANY - Published: February 15, 2010


The Village Voice - Dance Review by Deborah Jowitt - Anna Sokolow and Jose Limón Get Revived at Baryshnikov Arts Center - Published at February 16, 2010

Limon Dance - Repertory - Rooms

Rooms Etude

ROOMS ETUDE: Anna Sokolow, arranged by Lorry May - American Dance Legacy Institute - ORDER FORM

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