Jose Limon describes in his "An Unfinished Memoir"  (Edited by Lynn Garafola, 1999)  the days of Bennington School of the Dance, 1937:
Anna Sokolow also had an anti-Fascist piece  which she called Facade-Esposizione Italiana. At dress rehearsals I looked at it with admiration and envy. It was replete with stunning imagery and passages that moved me to say, "I wish I had done that!" Already , in 1937, Anna possessed that singular power of communicating with unerring directness, of using the abstract in gesture to create almost brutally impassioned drama. She was on her way to becoming what she is today, the most disturbingly human of choreographers
 
 

DANCE: LIMON OPENS WITH SOKOLOW WORK