The Sokolow Dance Foundation
. . . Continuing the Legacy in 2011!

Sokolow Dance Foundation staff to teach Rooms in conjunction with Celebration in Pictures: Anna Sokolow Centennial at the Dance Library of Israel. This acclaimed pictorial accounting of the life and work of Anna Sokolow, will tour to Reed College in Portland Oregon and Stanford University in San Francisco, California. Both institutions will host a performance of Sokolow's masterpiece Rooms while the show is on display. Additional details to follow. Sokolow Now! to participated in the Second Annual Massachusetts Dance Festival. The performances will be held at the Boston University Dance Theater, August 13 at 8pm and at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Bowker Auditorium, August 27 at 7pm. Sokolow Now! will perform the unforgettable duet from Sokolow's groundbreaking Lyric Suite. Numerous other Massachusetts based companies will participate in the state wide festival. For tickets sales and additional festival information go to http://massdancefestival.org. Sokolow Now! participated in the Third Annual Dance for World Community festival June 11, 2011, Cambridge, MA. Originated by José Mateo Ballet Theatre, Dance for World Community is a project that expands the role of dance in communities by creating local and global networks that catalyze inclusive and diverse dance-based activities. Sokolow Now! joined over fifty local dance companies in this day of dance.

The Sokolow Dance Foundation was the recipient of a grant from Attleboro Cultural Council. The grant funded a lecture by the foundation which recounted Anna Sokolow's life through archival video footage and her extraordinary work through live performance. The free event was held on March 4th, 2011 at the Attleboro Free Library.

Modern Jewish Experience through the Lens of Dance held at Ohio State University on February 13th & 14th 2011. Lorry May joined dancers and scholars from the U.S. and Israel at the OSU conference which examined Jewishness in dance in the 20th and 21st centuries. The two-day conference opened with a public performance of dances by modern Jewish choreographers which highlighted Sokolow's Steps of Silence. Scholarly panels and roundtable discussions took place on Sunday evening and Monday morning. The conference was free and open to the public.

The Sokolow Dance Foundation joined Brown University in celebrating the opening of the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. Juie Stranberg, Director of Dance at Brown University, engaged Suellen Haag of the Sokolow Dance Foundatin to reconstruct the Rooms Etude on the Brown Dance Ensemble. The etude was performed at the opening of the state of the art facility on February 10, 2011.

Bridgewater State University received second NEA Masterworks Grant. After the success of the 2009 reconstruction of Sokolow's Everything Must Go, Dance Director Nancy Moses once again engaged Lorry May to stage Ellis Island on the Bridgewater students. Ellis Island was performed in the school's annual spring concert on March 31, April 2 & 2, 2011.

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