Anna on the Web

Anna Sokolow 1910-2000.(Obituary) -Dancemagazine - July, 2000 - Don Mcdonagh

Obituary:- Anna Sokolow  - Independent - London

Marcia B Siegel- The Guardian  (Marcia b. Siegel is the author of the book - The shapes of change)    Marcia B. Siegel

Marcia B Siegel - The Guardian

 Marcia B Siegel - The Guardian - Obituary -  April 12, 2000

 Timeline

Obituary by LEWIS SEGAL - The Los Angeles Times

NYT  March 30 2000 (Obituary) -Jack Anderson

Obituary - Mexico (Spanish)

 Obituary (spanish)

Obituary - (Italian)

 Obituary (french)

Obituary - Players Project

February 9, 1910 - March 29, 2000

National Museum Of Dance

Larry Warren the author of  Anna Sokolow: The Rebellious Spiri, Passed away - December 9, 2009

Larry Warren the author of  Anna Sokolow: The Rebellious Spiri, Passed away - December 9, 2009

A multimedia biography of Anna Sokolow

  Dancemagazine June, 2002: Clips of rare footage of the modern dance pioneer

 Dance Heritage - America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures: the First 100

 America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures

Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award, 1981-

 CHOICES OF THE CENTURY

Sokolow Takes a Bow for 50 Years

Kurt Weill Exhibitions: Making Music Theater

 Making music Theater - The Kurt Weill Foundation and the New York Public Library

Video and Audio Preserve Performances and Master Classes - Ballade-1965,
celebrating 100 Years of The Juilliard School in Multimedia Exhibition at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, September 16, 2005 - January 14, 2006


Duncan (Jeff) Papers

Ze'eva Cohen: A Life in Dance by  Sharon Kaufman   - Ballade, Rooms, a repertoire company in one body

Jacob's pillow dance - 1956 - Anna Sokolow's Theatre Dance Company

 The New York Public Library - Dance Collection - Oral History Project Participants - 1974

 Contemporary Dance System

1962-68 : 5 television appearances for Public Broadcasting series Four Pioneers featuring the work of Donald
McKayle Co., John Butler Co., Anna Sokolow Co., and Jose Limon Co., filmed in NYCa

Thirteen - Wnet New York

PBS - Great perfomances : Free to Dance

 Thirteen/WNET

Anna Sokolow at The Place c1971 -It concludes with a studio performance of extracts from Sokolow's "Scenes from the music of Charles Ives" performed by Robert Powell, Siobhan Davies and the rest of London Contemporary Dance Theatre.

Premio Anna Sokolow, Concurso Estatal de Artes Plásticas

Manuel Álvarez Bravo: "La idea de vendar a la muchacha me vino de ver cómo las bailarinas del ballet de Ana Sokolov se vendaban los piesî.

The Bandages - Bravo 

IN MEMORY  by Pauline Tish
Films available on Anna Sokolow (Bullfight (1975, 9 min) , Rooms (1967, 30min) The New Dance
Group Gala Concert (1994, 160 min.)

New Dance Group members  - Rebels with a Social Agenda

Rebels with a Social Agenda - ...demonstrated the economy of physical means with which intense emotion can be displayed

The New Dance Group

An 85th-Birthday Look At Sokolow's Influence - By ANNA KISSELGOFF

Robbins(Jerome) and Taylor(Paul)  at  Anna's 85th birthday celebration

"I was so lucky because I was able to work with not just Martha and Merce Cunningham , but Anna Sokolow, Jerry Robbins, Balanchine, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman"

Her protégés include Alvin Ailey, Paul Taylor, and Pina Bausch; her peers, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Jose Limon

HUMPRHEY-WEIDMAN/ANNA SOKOLOW WORKSHOP ‘09

 Others' Work

 Anna at eighty five - Dance Magazine; 8/1/1995; Jowitt, Deborah

Anna at eighty five - Dance Magazine; 8/1/1995; Jowitt, Deborah

2010 is the 100th aniniversary of Anna Sokolow


Event : 100 Years Of Sokolow: A Centennial Celebration - May 7

Celebrating Anna Sokolow - New York Public Library


Celebrating Anna Sokolow

 The Eugene Lang College Dance Department - Friday April 30, 2010 - Lyric Suite

An evening of Anna Sokolow November 4th, 2010 - Frida, September Sonnet, Dreams and Rooms

Anna Sokolow Ensemble formed to honor choreographer

A review by Deborah Jowitt  April, 27 2010

Agnes de Mille talks about Anna Sokolow and Martha Graham

Introductory remarks by Agnes de Mille

LE GRAND SPECTACLE - ABT

The Agnes de Mille Dance Theatre

 Choreographers

Lincoln Center Institute  - Repertory Listing

Taking Careful Steps to Foster an Art Form - The Kennedy Center - Washington Post

 Village Voice - In memoriam

 Village Voice - Performing Struggle

That antagonistic footlights stare typical of Anna Sokolow

Los Angeles Times -March 31 2000

American Repertory Dance Company

Dance In America -PDF

City of London Community Arts Investments Program - PDF

 Dance

Ballet and Modern Dance

Reconstructing and passing on classic modern dance to the next generations

 Modern Dance Choreographers

Modern Dance

Modern Dance

 Modern Dance

 Modern Dance

 Modern Dance

Modern Dance

Development of Modern Dance

Classical Modern Dance
 
Videos by Choreographers

 Modern Dance Notes

 The Modern Dance - Seven Statements of Belief - The Rebel And The Bourgeois

 Choreographers - L' Histoire du Soldat

 Cultural Aspects of 2nd Generation Modern Dance

 2nd Generation Modern Dancers

 2nd Generation Modern Dance

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

 The Sokolow technique

If you see familiar elements, chances are Sokolow invented them

Her legacy has been felt — directly or indirectly — by nearly every choreographer since the mid-20th century

Sokolow Legacy Workshops

Dance Teacher Magazine: Anna Sokolow History Quize

 New York-based modern-dance troupe

 The physical technique of dance can parallel the physical process of acting

Research Topic Choices- 20th Century Modern Dance Artists

 American Dance Legacy Institute

 Hunter College - 2004 "Sharing the Legacy" Conference

 NYU: They are their own gifts Anna Sokolow, choreographer

Louis Horst's Pre-Classic Dance forms

Choreography

Choreography

Modern Europe.Dance Magazine, August, 2001, by Clive Barnes

Heritage? ... What heritage? (Attitudes).(preserving modern dance pieces)

"Choreography - Is the avant garde ignoring the now?"

 Choreography depended on who was dancing it

 The Intimate Act of Choreography:

Those people were operating on a more poetic level, one might say. The way Anna Sokolow taught or Antony Tudor taught, we were certainly not involved in learning where to place your foot, how to straighten your back or find your center

 How to say something standing onstage with my back to the audience

An ensemble of intense pacing towards a spotlight recalls certain aspects of Anna Sokolow’s style

Anna Broke down formalism in dance and created work of startling realism

An emotional expressionism evident

Concentrated on mood rather than plot in dances

The authentic motivation

 Third stylized vocabulary

Continue the expressive style of dance theater forged by Jose Limon and Anna Sokolow

The dancers needed a reason for their movements -- a mandate that both Sokolow and Limón understood

Feelings captured through expression, either musically or choreographically

 Movement that is imbued with explicit expressive meaning

Sokolow and Wigman, tried to find movements particular to each piece and subject

Sokolow's inspiration, derived from her roots in Jewish culture and animated through decisive arm movements and provocative stillness, spoke to Singh, whose choreography likewise engages in cultural translation -  Barbara Allen -  Washingtonpost - May 12, 2008

Awareness

A young man dreams of impossible triumphs, and a pathetic young woman dreams of love. - Anna Sokolow Choreographs Lessons in Sorrow
Published: January 19, 1989  -NYT
By JENNIFER DUNNING

Anna Sokolow's courage to present difficult realities of life through Dance

challenged his audience to sit through Anna Sokolow's grim, uncompromising "Rooms."

Dances of protest.Dance Magazine, June, 2003
Anti-War Trilogy, Anna Sokolow (1933). Inquisition (1936), Excerpts From a
                                 War Poem (1937), and Slaughter of the Innocents (1934)

 Dance as a force for social change:  Strange American Funeral (1935),      War Is Beautiful (1936)

Ballet, Jazz, and Modern Dance in the Post-War Age

Jazz as one of the most  profoundly expressive forms

The wealth of early American Jazz music

 Dance for the Camera Festival

DANCE for the CAMERA - FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL & WORKSHOP

 FilmDance Festival

BBC -LMA4145- A television programme - 14 January 1972 - Anna Sokolow rehearsing new Ballet

Bennington School of the Dance
 

First meeting between Leonard Bernstein  and Aaron Copland at Anna Sokolow's recital

 First meeting between Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland at Anna Sokolow's recital

Joffrey Celebrates Copland

Opera About Huck Finn

America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures:

The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition.  2001

 Britannica  Britannica

 Encarta

Wikipedia

 Encyclopedia

 Bibliography for Anna Sokolow Exhibit

 Modern Dance

 Expanding The Boundaries of Dance

NEW DANCE GROUP

The installation of Anna Sokolow in the Hall of Fame of Saratoga Springs (N.Y.) Museum of Dance.

The Atheneum Museum of Art

DANCE AT THE WADSWORTH ATHENEUM

Anna Sokolow Day is declared in the Borough of Manhattan, February 15, 1995

 Anna Sokolow Way, Borough of Manhattan

The name lives on

 Anna Sokolow Way - Front row, from left, Pearl Lang, Mary Anthony...

Anna Sokolow Way

Anna Sokolow Way

Modern dancer, teacher and choreographer Anna Sokolow in her Greenwich Village apartment - A photo

Sokolow Now! - Guest Company

 Not in Broad Daylight (Anna Sokolow, Edwin Denby, Martha Graham, Houston)

Articles in July, 2000 issue of Dance Magazine

 Arts wire- Moment in love

 A compelling assessment of a highly varied career and a passionate style of movement that continues to engage and affect audiences and dancers around the world

Barry Ulanov

American Dance Festival: Photograph Collection

Bessie Schönberg Dance Photograph Collection

 CATALOGED CORRESPONDENCE - Leonard Altman Papers

 Isolation, Destruction, and Empowerment: Jewish Identity and the Choreography of Anna Sokolow

Jewish Identity and the Choreography of Anna Sokolow

Ballet- Dance Magazine - Feb 2005 - Is there a unique Jewish voice in American dance?

92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association - Dance: Sundays @ Three presents "70 Years of Sokolow" - Dec 10.2006 - SOKOLOW THEATRE DANCE ENSEMBLE

92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center - a presentation by the company of longtime Center friend

 92nd Gala

 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center

 Y's history

 92nd street

 92nd -Choreographers who brought Jewish content into their work,

A Book:  Converging Movements: Modern Dance and Jewish Culture at the 92nd Street Y

 New York City's 92nd Street Y - Anna Sokolow's eightieth birthday

 92nd street y - Sundays at Three: Anna Sokolow's Players' Project

            A school in which Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Hanya Holm,
 and Anna Sokolow played impressive early roles

70 Years of Sokolow at the 92nd Street Y-Ballad in a Popular Style

SUNDAYS AT THREE - Dance Listings - NYTDecember 8, 2006

NYT - January 4,2001

 Classes in choreography taught by Anna Sokolow

 Jewish Women As Dance Pioneers: Helen Becker (Tamiris), Anna Sokolow, Sophie Maslow." Judaism 45 (Summer 1996)...Sokolow created dances around social concerns

 Dance and Social Consciousness in the 30's and 40's

The Dance is a weapon - The New Dance Group and Anna Sokolow's Dance Unit

Sokolow began to show her own
choreography with the Dance Unit, which appeared before labor organizations

From Tenement to Theater: Jewish Women as Dance Pioneers

 SOPHIE MASLOW

M. Graham with Sophie Maslow, Anna Sokolow and the concert group in a 1935 performance of Primitive Mysteries (1931)-Barbara Morgan

Danced conference - Conférence dansée -Thursday 3 Saturday April 5, 2008

American Dance Guild - Performance Festival 2008 - tributes to two modern masters, Murray Louis and Anna Sokolow

  Neighborhood Playhouse

In 1934, Sokolow traveled to the Soviet Union

 Federal sponsorship under Roosevelt and dance in the 1930 - several dancers invited to communist Russia to perform and teach - 1934

 Shanghai Daily news - Alvin Ailey

su ?agiljev, Ana Sokolov, Marta Graham, Hose Lemon

A Yiddish Festival

Anna Sokolow: Her World of Dance

La Paloma Azul.......Las Sokolowas

 Ballet Nacional del Peru

THE DEFINITION OF "DANCE"

 THE DEFINITION OF "DANCE"

 Dance is giving up its past for an uncertain future

 Anna Sokolow and Merce Cunningham typify opposite poles of approach - Doris Hering (1946)

 Thoughts on the Art of Film

Improvisation

The Combining of Forms

Lawyers for the Arts

ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA

Mexico (Spanish)

 Taiwan

Choreographer, Anna Sokolow, Greenwich Village, 1969  - photography by Richard Henry

1935-41. Photographs

Anna Sokolow, Case History, 1940 (A photo by Barbara Morgan)

Barbara Morgan - photography

 Photographs - ADF

 A picture of Anna Sokolow Dancing taken by Barbara Morgan

 University of Texas - Series I. Photography Files, 1933-1973  (including ballet with mice, also billiards)

University of Utah Marriott Library - Photograph Collection

A scene from  the Anna Sokolow-Teo Macero ballet "Time Plus" -  Pennsylvania Ballet - 1968 -pdf

 Homage to Anna Sokolow

 Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Theatre Museum: Victoria & Albert Museum
Contemporary Dance Trust Archive, 1957 - 1999 Photographs of Anna Sokolow 1 folder

Humphrey (Doris) Collection

Horst (Louis) Collection

A printed program - Anna Sokolow Dance Company at The
Hunter College Concert Bureau's presentation of its Third Dance Series.

Dance Timeline - 1943

ADF Timeline

 Western Libraries

An evening with Anna Sokolow," choreographer, on her collaboration with the Mexican Muralists in the 1930's
 

The Independent Vision - Thoughts on the Art of Film

Mary Sano Studio of Duncan Dancing

Ted Shawn orchestrated premieres by both the established and emerging talents of his day

 Scriabin Dance Program

"In Anna Sokolow's Dance, Her Beliefs," December 2, 1975

 Dance and Social Consciousness in the 30s and 40s." Featuring Anna Sokolow and Sophie Maslow.

 Sokolow has used dance and drama together to make strong social statements

Sozialer Modern Dance - Zum Tod von Anna Sokolow

 Tanzes. Zur Tod von Anna Sokolow

 Das Ballett

 Autumn 1978 Commencement - Doctor of Humanities - Ohio

 Anna Sokolow at Ohio State

Dance in the Age of Anxiety: Martha Graham, Anna Sokolow and George Balanchine (MEDIA/PANEL)

Dance in The Age of Anxiety: Martha Graham, Anna Sokolow and George Balanchine

The Rosenberg Lecture-Performance

The Rosenberg Lecture-Performance Artist, 1969 (instrument: Dance)

  Theater Arts @ Brandeis University - The Anna Sokolow Dance Company 1967-1968

 International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions

New World School of the Arts- CONTINUES TRADITION OF WELCOMING DISTINGUISHED VISITING ARTISTS

 Several works by the late Anna Sokolow

 DISTINGUISHED ARTIST AWARD

Anna Sokolow's Steps of Silence, a work created in1968, about the oppression of a people and based on the
 writings of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Franz Kafka

Old masters - FROM THE DIARIES OF FRANZ KAFKA Boston Conservatory paid tribute to Anna Sokolow with this late work by Marcia B, Siegel March 2, 2010   

Susan Hess Modern Dance (SHMD)

Five Evenings with American Dance Pioneers (1983-1984), featuring Anna Sokolow, Martha Hill, Pearl Primus, May O'Donnell and Daniel Nagrin

Such distinguished dancers and teachers as Doris Humphrey, Anna Sokolow and Erick Hawkins

lesser-known choreography -  Ballade, Anna Sokolow departs from her characteristically bleak view of humanity to create a lyrical, almost romantic quartet to Scriabin performed live in concert

New York International Ballet Competition

ADLI's Repertory Etude Project

 Reconstruction of Time Plus

 Rescue Mission

 First biography of Anna Sokolow

 Readers' Forum.Dance Magazine, Sept, 2000

 Vassar History Index

 Family Tree
 

 IMDB


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