Lyrical  Dances

 

 



Anna Sokolow's Players' Project
NYC

Photo: David Fullard


Ballade
1965
(10 minutes)
2 men, 2 women
Music: Alexander Scriabin

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"Ballade
plays the age old game of youth and its
discoveries, with a touching grace and
understanding
straight out of their own youngness."

Ann Barzel, Dance News

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4-songs
Four Songs

1995
(10:20 minutes)
large group of women
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Nocturn (4:20)
Music: Paul Ben-Haim
Polka (1:15)
Music: Marc Lavry
Love Song (2:45)
Music: Ladino Traditional
The Land of Laltadam (2:00)
Music: Naome Shem

"Essentially a muted ritual for four
(or morewomen, girlish yet age-old."


Jennifer Dunning, New York Times


 





Anna Sokolow's Players' Project
NYC

Photo: Sally Cohn

 

 

 







 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Repertory Dance Theater, UT

Photo: Scott Peterson



Lyric Suite

1953
(27:33 minutes)
large group work
Music: Alban Berg*
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"It is one of the finest examples of lyric theater dance seen in many a season...it speaks in
abstract and stark simplicity, translating the qualitative moods of the music into
penetrating and evocative movement designs. Superbly choreographed and
thoroughly integrated, its beauty has a direct appeal to kinesthetic response."

Louis Horst, Dance Observe

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Allegretto Gioviale
(2:50) male solo
 Andante Amoroso
(5:50) female solo
   Allegro Misterioso
  (3:00) female solo
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Largo Desolato
(6:10) male/female duet
Presto Delirando Tenebroso
(4:23) male solo
Adagio Appassionato
(6:00) female quartet
 


Preludes

1980
(4:34 minutes)
female solo
or 2 female solos
Music: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Section 1 (2:32)
Section 2 (2:02)
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These joyous solos express the emotional range of
two selected Rachmanoff preludes. The first solo
introduces a theme of Sokolow's distinctive dramatic
intensity. It is followed by a contrasting dance filled
with light, lively variations.

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SOKOLOW NOW!
MA


Photo: Jim Bush

 

 

 



 

 




Dancefusion, PA

Photo: Suellen Haag




quartertone

* Music rights required.


Quartertones

1974
(10:35 mintues)
female solo or 3 female solos

Music: Charles Ives*

Section 1 (3:45)
Section 2 (2:50)
Section 3 (4:00)
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"This solo seemed at first to recall
Martha Graham's solo works, but with its
quick-snap tempo changes and sultry
hip-slides to the tangy, disorienting
soundscape of a Charles Ives work for
quartertone-tunedpiano, this piece
developed it own distinctive personality."


Miriam Seidel, The Inquirer

 


Scenes From The Music Of Charles Ives

1971
(20 minutes)
large group piece

Music: Charles Ives*

Halloween (2:15) large group
Central Park in the Dark (6:50) large group
The Pond and the Cage (5:55) male solo
The Unanswered Question (5:30) large group
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"Take the Charles Ives piece, full of gestural images used as steps, loaded with dance metaphors carrying the kinetic weight dance movement. Sokolow's concentration on individual expression is shown perfectly here in a pin-pointed male solo of anguish."

Clive Barnes, New York Post

* Music rights required.

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Anna Sokolow's Players' Project
NYC


Photo: David Fullard  

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

Anna Sokolow's Players' Project
NYC

Photo: Ron Williams


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September Sonnet

1995
(16:16 minutes)
male/female duet

Section 1 (5:44) duet
Music: Avro Part
Section 2 (3:52) male solo
Music: Sergei Rachmaninoff
Section 3 (4:11) female solo
Music: Francis Poulenc
Coda (3:09) duet
Music: Robert Schumann

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"It was a love duet - though not an ordinary one. Ms. Sokolow avoided choreographically rhyming moon with June or idealizing dewy-eyed youth."

Jack Anderson, New York Times

"...pedestrian gestures of reaching and touching evoke powerful feelings of emotional bonding."

Lisa Jo Sagolla, Backstage

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Song

1975
(8 minutes)
female solo
Music: Gustav Mahler
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Set to the adagio section of Mahler's
5th Symphony,this tour-de force
is a delicate, romantic
journey that mirrors the cycles of the earth.


 


SOKOLOW NOW!
MA


Photo: Tom Bowling


 
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