Sokolow, Anna

Sokolow, Anna

(born Feb. 9, 1910, Hartford, Conn., U.S.—died March 29, 2000, New York, N.Y.) U.S. modern dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She studied with Martha Graham and danced with Graham's company (1930–38). In the early 1930s she also formed her own dance group, the Dance Unit. From 1939 to 1949 she spent part of each year as a teacher and choreographer in Mexico City, where she formed Mexico's first modern-dance group. Throughout her career and into the 1990s, she continued to form various companies and for them she often choreographed works on subjects of social concern.

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Sokolow, Anna (1910–  ) modern dancer, choreographer, teacher; born in Hartford, Conn. A student and member of Martha Graham's company from 1930–39, she formed her own dance group in 1934. Invited to perform in Mexico in 1939, she stayed on to develop that country's first modern dance company, returning yearly to train dancers during the 1940s; she also helped form an Israeli modern dance company in the 1950s and taught in the United States as well, training some who became leading choreographers. A choreographer for over 50 years, she worked with ballet and modern dance companies, Broadway theater, and the New York City Opera. Many of her pieces have political themes, such as Rooms (1955), about the Holocaust, and "Kurt Weill" (1988), about war atrocities.