Anna Sokolow Biography - Choreography & Dance Studies Book | Modern Dance History, Techniques & Legacy - Perfect for Dance Students, Teachers & Enthusiasts
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A pioneer choreographer in modern American dance, Anna Sokolow has led a bewildering, active international life. Her meticulous biographer Larry Warren once looked up Anna Sokolow in a few reference books and found that she was born in three different years and that her parents were from Poland except when they were in Russia, and found many other inaccuracies. Drawing on material from nearly 100 interviews, Larry Warren has created a fascinating account and assessment of the life and work of Anna Sokolow, whose nomadic career was divided between New York, Mexico, and Israel. Setting her work on more than 70 dance companies, Anna Sokolow not only pioneered the development of a personal approach to movement, which has become part of the language of contemporary dance, but also created such masterpieces as Rooms, dealing with loneliness and alienation, and Dreams, which concerns the inner torment of victims of the Nazi Holocaust.
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Anna Sokolow, (1910-2000) through her long creative life and through teaching of new andindependent livinggenerations of artists, was always busy in art and not in her credits. Anna is an outstanding example of anartist 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 alanguage that enables people from different classes, countries, and cultures to communicate and discover collectivehuman feelings. The book takes the view that Anna was the right person at the right place at theright time exposing us to an artistic giant and looking at the events of the twentieth century through her eyes. Many people from manyprofessions try to deal with past, present, and future, and I feel thatartists like Picasso (painting), and Sokolow (body movement) have a different kind of understanding oftheir specific period, with social involvement without pretense and with their pure, penetrating, andminimalist language. this is their way reacting to a Society that sometimes criticizes them for their independentways. This book is an an excellent basis for further study of Anna Sokolow's life and art.
