The Theme which is expressed through dance and body movement
strongly
connected to Music is based on the Holocaust, where Nazi Germany
systematically exterminated six Millions people during 1939-1945
(world war) all over Europe just because they where Jews.
Anna was not there but she met many people during her visits at Israel
and all over the world who actually been there and had survived as live
witness to tell. Anna with her incredible sensitivity felt it as
if she had actually been there, Anna could communicated with people
without
words, She had the ability to read body language, usually people who
had
been there have difficulties to tell because this is something beyond
the
human ability to understand and to cope with. Anna tells that after the
first performance the audience remained silence there was
not
applause they simply got up and left.
The human being can be humiliated but nobody can control his spirit
that may remain pure, Anna explore it also through movement
from another universal point of view in
Weill / Brecht: Seven Deadly Sins .
Netherlands Dance Theatre (1966)
Was
set by Sokolow on MADT in 1975
MADT -
Photographs by Max Waldman
For PBS, New York (1976)
Iris
Dorbian: Unafraid to test the boundaries of modern dance with
risk-taking
choreography
Rooms - Anna Sokolow's courage to present difficult realities of life through Dance
Dance by Princeton Choreographer opens Holocaust conference
In 1961, when the trial of Adolf Eichmann was under way in Israel, Sokolow choreographed "Dreams,"
Dreams
become nightmares of Nazi concentration camps
DNB
- Solos Available for Staging
Dreams
[videorecording]
: a dance work / by Anna Sokolow ; produced and directed by Roger
Englander
in cooperation
with The New York State
Education Department.
1 videocassette (28
min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
Archived
of filmed and Videotaped arts documentaries.. - Creative Arts Television
A
grant from the NEA to do a reconstruction next year of 'Dreams'