Lyrical  Dances
Anna Sokolow's Players' Project,
NYC


Photo: David Fullard

Ballade
1965
(15 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-somngs

Four Songs

1995
(10:20 minutes)
large group of women


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

Jennifer Dunning, New York Times

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Anna Sokolow's Players' Project
NYC


Photo: Sally Cohn
 


Repertory Dance Theater, UT

Photo: Scott Peterson



Lyric Suite
1953
(30 minutes)
large group work

Music: Alban Berg
 * Music rights required  


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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 Observer

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Allegretto Gioviale
(2:50) male solo
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Andante Amoroso
(5:50) female solo
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Allegro Misterioso
  (3:00) female solo
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Largo Desolato
(6:10) male/female duet

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Presto Delirando Tenebroso
(4:23) male solo
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Adagio Appassionato
(6:00) female quartet
 

Preludes

1980
(5:30 minutes)
female solo or 2 female solos

Music: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Section 1 (3:30)
Section 2 (2:00)


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These joyous solos express the emotional range of two selected Rachmaninoff 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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Photo: Suellen Haag


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Quartertones

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


Music: Charles Ives
* Music rights required.

Section 1 (3:45)
Section 2 (2:50)
Section 3
(4:00)

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"This solo seemed at first to recallMartha Graham's
solo works, but with its quick-snap tempo
changes and sultryhip-slides to the tangy,
disorienting soundscape of a Charles Ives work for
quartertone-tuned piano, this piece developed
its own distinctive personality."


Miriam Seidel, The Inquirer
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Scenes From The Music Of Charles Ives

1971
(20 minutes)
large group piece

Music: Charles Ives
* Music rights required.

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 concentratio on individual expression is shown perfectly herein a pin-pointed male solo of anguish."


Clive Barnes, New York Post


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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
(17 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

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.


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MA


Photo: Tom Bowling
 
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