Anna Sokolow Research Paper
Anna Sokolow (1910-2000) was born in Hartford, Connecticut. Likewise, she was beginning her training at the Neighborhood Playhouse with Martha Graham and Louis Horst. she was a member of the Graham Dance Company and helped Mr. Horst in his move piece classes in the 1930s. In the meantime, she takes up with the WPA move unit and she began her own organization and started choreographing and performing solo shows and gathering works. She is very interested in humanity drove her to make works of dramatic contemporary imagery indicating both the lyric and stark parts of the human experience. On 1965, She wrote on Dance Magazine article that there were no “final solutions to today’s problems,” but that she “could simply provoke an audience into awareness”