An evening of Anna Sokolow
Thursday November 4th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Friday November 5th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
University of Maryland
We will be performing a full evening of Anna Sokolow’s dances, including the company premiere of Sokolow’s Frida. We are very grateful to the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center for presenting Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company as part of their season. Daniel graduated from UMD’s Dance Department in 2004, and was the first Graduate Student to be presented at the Center in 2004. His thesis concert “Songs of My Life” was sold out for every single performance at the center both in its first run at the dance department and in the return engagement when the Clarice Smith Center presented us. It is a wonderful homecoming for the company to be back this year at the center.
Daniel has nurtured a multi-year, multi-project partnership with the Sokolow Dance Foundation and has been working closely with Lorry May, former principal and assistant to Anna Sokolow on this show. Daniel was inspired when he was introduced to Sokolow’s Kaddish (performed by Risa Steinberg) at Dance Place over 14 years ago. He was fascinated with Sokolow’s stark and powerful movement style and resolved then to acquire rights to reconstruct and perform her works. The dream came true almost 10 years later, and the company has been working closely with Lorry May for the past four years to bring you this evening of rarely seen dances by Sokolow such as Frida, September Sonnet, Dreams and Rooms. For tickets and other information, please visit the Center’s website.