- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 streaming video file (53 min.) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Anna Sokolow discusses the first film to be shown entitled, Lament for the death of a bullfighter; her experience as an artist in Mexico in 1939; description of a bullfight and how it inspired this work; dance in the 1950's; growing up in New York City on the Lower East Side; description of the choreographic work, Rooms (1954) and how each chair represents a separate room; during the Question & Answer session, Sokolow talks about her company which included dancers, Jack Ward, Jeff Duncan, and Ze'eva Cohen; explains what movement means to her; her early life in New York as part of a Russian Jewish family; the Workers Dance League created because of the Trade Union performances; Sokolow's story of how she got to perform in Mexico; talks about her work, From the Diaries of Franz Kafka; her experience in Israel in 1953 with Jerome Robbins; her own creative process and working with musicians, Luciano Berio and Edgard Varese; working with Martha Graham and how she left the company; how Louis Horst commented on her work, Lyric Suite; discusses old and new modern dance with mention of past greats including Balanchine, Ashton, Robbins, and Tudor; her artist friends including Jane Dudley, May O'Donnell, and Sophie Maslow; final comments with Susan Hess.
- Series Statement
- Susan Hess Modern Dance Lecture Series Video Archive
- Uniform Title
- Susan Hess Modern Dance Lecture Series Video Archive.
- Alternative Title
- Recollections and Rare Films
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Dance.
- Video.
- Filmed dance.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Note
- Title from original video cassette label.
- Films are not shown on this video.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming video files online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Alan Powell.
- Source (note)
- Contents
- Anna Sokolow talk (20 min.) -- Question & Answer (33 min.)
- Call Number
- *MGZIDF 1465
- OCLC
- 885378540
- Title
Five Evenings with American Dance Pioneers : Anna Sokolow, First Evening.
- Production
1983.
- Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
video
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Series
Susan Hess Modern Dance Lecture Series Video Archive
Susan Hess Modern Dance Lecture Series Video Archive.
- Original Version
Original format: 1 videocassette (U-matic) ; 3/4 in.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming video files online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.
- Credits
Videographer, Alan Powell.
- Performer
Speaker, Anna Sokolow.
- Event
Videotaped during talk at Hess studio in Philadelphia, Pa. 1983 March 25.
- Source
Gift; Susan Hess; 2010.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Sokolow, Anna, speaker.
Hess, Susan, speaker.
Powell, Alan, videographer.
Hess, Susan, donor.
- Research Call Number
*MGZIDF 1465