Photos: Jeff Somers
TLab Shares hosts the Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble’s In the Eye of a Dream from Thursday, November 9 to Sunday, November 19, 2023 at Theaterlab, 357 W. 36th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY, choreographed by Anna Sokolow and directed by Samantha Geracht. General Admission tickets are $35, Students/Senior tickets are $25. Tickets are available for purchase here.
With In the Eye of a Dream, the Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble has reconceived Frida and Magritte Magritte as a new immersive installation in the intimate white box theater of Theaterlab, with projections by Kathleen Kelley of Proteo Media.
In Frida, a portrait based on Sokolow’s personal relationship with Frida Kahlo, Sokolow created a multimedia homage to her friend’s internal life and public persona. Guest artist Christine Dakin, former artistic director of the Martha Graham Company, will dance the title role.
Sokolow’s masterwork Magritte, Magritte sets the disturbing, paradoxical paintings of Surrealist Rene Magritte into action, with text by John White. Guest artist Clarence Brooks will join us in the role of the Threatened Assassin.
Artistic Director: Samantha Géracht
Guest Artists: Christine Dakin, Clarence Brooks
Projections: Kathleen Kelley
“Miss Sokolow has played ‘living paintings’ with several canvases by the Belgian Surrealist Rene Magritte. Her own work has shared a similar sense of menace in everyday life, and Magritte’s concern with everyday objects finds a common ground in her interest in the homeliness of existence…The images were never short of startling.” — Anna Kisselgoff, New York Times
“Frida incorporates paintings by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo as slide projections. Yet Sokolow’s images are equally stunning, from the phalanx of colorfully dressed dancers, hands outstretched, who come to impale and then support the title character, to the riveting duet for … Frida and … her lover Diego Rivera. The steeliness of his grip, as he quietly enfolds her with one arm, can be judged from the force of her reaction when she spins away. Any choreographer with that kind of insight deserves to be widely celebrated.” — Robert Johnson, The Star-Ledger
About Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble
SOKOLOW THEATRE/DANCE ENSEMBLE is the living legacy company dedicated to presenting Ms. Sokolow’s vast body of emotionally riveting work. Over a 70-year career, Anna Sokolow continuously broke the boundaries of modern dance, focusing on the human experience and accessing any genre to fulfill her artistic purpose. Her masterpieces remain relevant to our times and touch the hearts of all people as we struggle with the universal issues of living, regardless of differences in place and culture. The company’s projects include reconstruction, reimagination, deconstruction, historical performance, teaching, lectures, archiving, and partnering with contemporary choreographers—all modes through which we step inside Sokolow’s masterworks and draw from this perspective to better frame our future. ST/DE was founded by Sokolow protege Jim May and is currently under the artistic direction of Samantha Geracht. For more information, visit sokolowtheatredance.org.
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