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...poverty, her parents were determined to give her as much culture as possible. Fortunately the neighborhood dance teacher was Gertrud Kraus, once a well known dancer-choreographer in Europe. At the age of 16 she began to study and perform with Rena Gluck of the Graham School. When Anna Sokolow came to Esrael around 1958, Ze'eva performed in her Lyrical TTheater. Sokolow was so impressed by the young performer that she offered Ze'eva a ticket to the United States so she could study on scholarship at the Juillard School of Music in New York...
...suited only for ambiguous character, and the Mays, Jim especially, are able to register the succession of differing emotions or the contradiction of several at once that this requires. In "A Short Lecture and Demonstration on the Evolution of Ragtime as Presented by Jelly Roll Morton," choreographed by Anna Sokolow, Jim--ardent, frightened, cool--partners Lorry-never anything but wacky--in a series of queerly-constructed waltzes, foxtrots, and tangos. As narrator Ed Di Lello reads Morton's account of how a dance tune became transformed in his "Tiger Rag," pianist Patricia deVore pounds out its variations...
...Lorry crawl, never standing upright, at times like insects with spindly legs extending skyward, at times like bears rubbing noses. "Peer," choreographed by Patrice Regnier, deals with emotions that one friend called "primitive," another "childlike." Again, the animal tinges the human character. And finally, "Duet," from Anna Sokolow's "Lyric Suite," omitting the shading of animal character, presents the passions of young lovers...
Dance Collective (October 8-9, December 3-4) and Dance Circle's Dorothy Hershkowitz (January 6-8) offer more traditional style modern dance. Concert Dance Co. sticks to well-done classics, and this season will add Anna Sokolow's Session for Six to their repertoire of Doris Humphrey, Bill Evans and Phobe Neville. Good for taking a friend who's never seen modern dance...
...Edward Munch had painted his Cry before us-that is how the RDT ends the evening. Anna Sokolow's work, Steps of Silence -a poignant conflict of men-is as powerful as Munch's gnarled Bruke Cry. A powerful piece, a powerful performance: where the Repertory Dance Theatre has begun with the strong curves of the Baroque, they have ended with the social comment of the modernist...