Dreams

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 .


Dramatic Classics

Dreams

Batsheva Dance Company

Netherlands Dance Theatre (1966)

Was set by Sokolow on MADT in 1975

MADT - Photographs by Max Waldman

A reconstruction of Dreams

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

 DANIEL LEWIS

Roger Englander

Dreams

Archived of filmed and Videotaped arts documentaries.. - Creative Arts Television

Anna Sokolow: Dreams - DVD

November 4 - 12, 2006

Jan 20, 2007

A grant from the NEA to do a reconstruction next year of 'Dreams'

Almost 50 years after its debut, Anna Sokolow's "Dreams" looks as fresh as ever - Sarah Halzack - Washington Post  - May 11, 2009



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