Drawing on material from nearly 100 interviews, Warren has created an assessment of the life and work of Anna Sokolow, the choreographer of American dance. Sokolow set her work on more than 70 dance companies, particularly in New York, Mexico and Israel, and took part in the development of movement approach. Sokolow is also well known for her creation of pieces such as "Rooms", dealing with loneliness and alienation, and "Dreams", which concerns the inner torment of victims of the Nazi Holocaust.
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An artist's view on the 20th century,
This review is from: Anna Sokolow: The Rebellious Spirit (Choreography and Dance Studies Series) (Paperback)
Anna Sokolow, (1910-2000) through her long creative life and through teaching of new and independent living generations of artists, was always busy in art and not in her credits. Anna is an outstanding example of an artist who uses art as a way to communicate and to inspire. This book illustrates what it means to be total artist and completely committed to Art. It illustrates how art is a language that enables people from different classes, countries, and cultures to communicate and discover collective human feelings. The book takes the view that Anna was the right person at the right place at the right time exposing us to an artistic giant and looking at the events of the twentieth century through her eyes. Many people from many professions try to deal with past, present, and future, and I feel that artists like Picasso (painting), and Sokolow (body movement) have a different kind of understanding of their specific period, with social involvement without pretense and with their pure, penetrating, and minimalist language. this is their way reacting to a Society that sometimes criticizes them for their independent ways. This book is an an excellent basis for further study of Anna Sokolow's life and art.
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When Anna Sokolow's niece, Judy Kaplan, was asked why her grandparents had left Russia in the early 1900s, she answered, "Why does any Jew leave Russia?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Anna Sokolow, Mexico City, Miss Sokolow, Martha Graham, Lyric Theatre, United States, Bellas Artes, Louis Horst, Theatre Union, Actors Studio, John Martin, Neighborhood Playhouse, Sophie Maslow, Dance Magazine, Jack Moore, Jeff Duncan, Lincoln Center, Martha Hill, Tel Aviv, Dance Unit, Jim May, Jerome Robbins, Lyric Suite, Doris Humphrey New!
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When Anna Sokolow's niece, Judy Kaplan, was asked why her grandparents had left Russia in the early 1900s, she answered, "Why does any Jew leave Russia?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Anna Sokolow, Mexico City, Miss Sokolow, Martha Graham, Lyric Theatre, United States, Bellas Artes, Louis Horst, Theatre Union, Actors Studio, John Martin, Neighborhood Playhouse, Sophie Maslow, Dance Magazine, Jack Moore, Jeff Duncan, Lincoln Center, Martha Hill, Tel Aviv, Dance Unit, Jim May, Jerome Robbins, Lyric Suite, Doris Humphrey New!
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- After the Fall: A Play in Two Acts (Penguin Plays) by Arthur Miller on page 164, and Index
- The Borzoi Book of Modern Dance by Margaret Lloyd in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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