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March 28 2008 |
Lecture/Video about Anna Sokolow. Using rare footage, personal stories, and historic archives, artistic director Jim May will chronicle the life of Anna Sokolow, world famous dancer, choreographer, and teacher. Beginning in 1910 with her birth and youth on the lower East Side of New York City, Mr. May will follow Ms. Sokolow's life through the turmoils of the 20th century and her seminal contributions to Modern Dance in the United States and around the world. New School, 65 West 11th Street, New York City. | |
April 17-20 2008 |
Merce Cunningham Studio, 55 Bethune Street, New York. Thurs. and Fri.
April 17 and 18 at 9:00 pm, Sat. and Sun. April 19 and 20 at 8:00
pm. Program will include Anna Sokolow's haunting Scenes to the Music
of Charles Ives (1971) and the devastating Steps
of Silence (1969), a study of the human costs of unjust imprisonment. Also on the program will be
Footsteps to Heaven, choreographed and performed by Jim May, a new duet choreographed by Mr. May, and Souffle d'Air by Samantha Géracht,
with an original sonic landscape created in collaboration by Argentinean composer Cibo Fernandez
(www.cibofernandez.com).
Tickets $20. www.merce.org,
for reservations: 212-741-0900. This performance made possible by
a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. Please join us for a special pre-performance gala reception on April 17 from 7 to 8 pm. Food will be cordially provided by the restaurant "Le Zie" www.lezie.com. RSVP required, call 212-791-0900 or email mail@sokolowtheatredance.org by Monday April 13. Leave your name, phone number and the number of people coming. You will be contacted with directions (only 1 block away from the Cunningham studio). Tickets are $50; includes performance and special gift. |
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May 2008 |
Anna Sokolow went to Mexico in 1939 and began an intimate, lifelong
artistic relationship with that country that continues today through
the Sokolow Theatre Dance Ensemble. Artistic director Jim May and
company members Lauren Naslund and Samantha Géracht will reconstruct
Frida, Anna Sokolow’s
last work at the Northwest Vista College in San Antonio, Texas, which
has been awarded an NEW American Masterpieces grant for the project.
This multimedia work about Mexican artist Frida Kahlo will be set
on students from the college who are mostly first and second generation
Mexican-Americans, as well as dancers from the Central National for
the Arts dance department in Mexico City, who have been invited to
Texas to join the 3 week workshop. This cross-border effort will acquaint the Texas students with their heritage, bring the US and Mexican dance communities together, and, most important, teach each group this great work by Anna Sokolow. The dancers from Mexico will perform Frida for their fellow countrymen as a gift from Anna. The dancers from Texas will perform the work in the United States. For more information: www.accd.edu/nvc/news/ |
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August 18-22 2008 |
Sokolow technique and repertory taught by Jim May. Monday-Friday August 18-22 at Peridance, 890 Broadway, 6th Floor, NY, 212-505-0886. Technique: 10-11:30 am, Repertory: 11:30-1 pm. Cost: full workshop: $90, single class: $20. www.peridance.com. Visit our Teaching page to see photos and student comments from past workshops. | |
Ongoing classes |
For schedule, contact Peridance, 890 Broadway, 6th Floor, NY, NY
10003 212-505-0886, www.peridance.com |