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Lyrical Dances

Anna Sokolow's Players' Project NYC Photo: David Fullard	Ballade *1965* (10 minutes) 2 men, 2 women Music: Alexander Scriabin _____________________________________________________ "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

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

	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 "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

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* _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "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 * Music rights required

	*Allegretto Gioviale* (2:50) male solo	*Andante Amoroso* (5:50) female solo	*Allegro Misterioso* (3:00) female solo

	*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) _______________________________________________ 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.		SOKOLOW NOW! MA Photo: Jim Bush

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.

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 ___________________________________________________________ "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.		Anna Sokolow's Players' Project NYC Photo: David Fullard

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.

Anna Sokolow's Players' Project
NYC

Photo: David Fullard

Anna Sokolow's Players' Project NYC Photo: Ron Williams		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
___________________________ "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

Anna Sokolow's Players' Project
NYC

Photo: Ron Williams

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

___________________________

"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

	Song 1975 (8 minutes) female solo Music: Gustav Mahler _______________________________________ 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

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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