| Lyrical Dances |
| Anna Sokolow's Players' Project, NYC Photo: David Fullard |
Ballade 1965 (15 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 ____________________________________ |
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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 more) women, girlish yet age-old." Jennifer Dunning, New York Times ______________________________________ |
Anna Sokolow's Players' Project NYC Photo: Sally Cohn |
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Repertory Dance Theater, UT |
Lyric Suite 1953 (30 minutes) large group work Music: Alban Berg * Music rights required _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "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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Preludes 1980 (5:30 minutes) female solo or 2 female solos Music: Sergei Rachmaninoff Section 1 (3:30) Section 2 (2:00) ___________________________________ 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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SOKOLOW NOW! MA Photo: Jim Bush |
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Dancefusion, PA |
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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) _____________________________________ "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 __________________________________________ |
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 __________________________________________ "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 |
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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 |
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