SUELLEN HAAG
Managing Director
Suellen Haag, Managing Director of the Sokolow Dance Foundation, holds a BA in Art Education
from Kutztown University and an MFA in Modern Dance Performance from the Philadelphia
College of the Performing Arts. She has also studied at the Martha Graham
School of Contemporary Dance and the Limon Institute, both in NYC.
Most notably, Ms Haag is a member of SOKOLOW NOW!.
Performing credits also include numerous independent
performance projects in Philadelphia and New York
and dancing with Anna Sokolow's Players’ Project
in New York for five years.
“Anna Sokolow’s Player’s Project company members,
including Suellen Haag and Kent Gibson are as
authoritative as the company’s artistic directors.”
New York Times, NYC ~ Jennifer Dunning
Ms Haag was a founding member of Dancefusion, a contemporary modern dance company
based in Philadelphia, PA. In addition to performing, Ms. Haag has choreographed for
Dancefusion and the junior company, fusion 2.
“Suellen Haag is a pleasure to watch through the evening: she is a disciplined technician who manages to convey
a warm sense of humor beneath her finesse”.
City Paper, Phila.,PA ~ Brad Rosenstein
“Sokolow’s” Shadowed Sun”, beautifully danced by Suellen Haag and Joe Cicala, is a duet about the difficulty people
experience in making significant connections with others ….”
City Paper, Phila., PA ~ Robert Ackerman
“In “A Short Lecture and Demonstration on the Evolution of Ragtime”, Joe Cicala and Suellen Haag
put on a brilliant demonstration of old-time dancing”.
City Paper, Phila., PA ~ Robert Ackerman
Ms Haag has taught at the Pottstown Dance Theatre, Gwendolyn Bye Dance Center, Allentown College,
Villanova University, Kutztown University and Budzinsky Studios all in PA; and Peridance, NYC. She was a guest
instructor at Keimyung University, South Korea and American College Dance Festival, University of Delaware, DE.
Since 1998 Ms Haag has been assisting Lorry May, Founding Director of the Sokolow Dance Foundation,
with reconstructions, teaching Sokolow Legacy Workshops and in archiving the vast repertory of Anna Sokolow.
Ms Haag also presents Sokolow Etude Workshops and lectures on the life and work of Anna Sokolow.
In 2002 she helped Ms. May to establish the Sokolow Dance Foundation.
In 1997, Ms Haag received a Dance Advance Grant, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts for the creation
of Sokolow’s last work, Shadowed Sun, a duet for which she danced the female role. In 2003, she and
Ms May wrote and received a Dance Advance grant for the reclaiming of Time +, which had no visual archives.
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