Manhattan, NY - Experts of austere drama, the Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble unites with Wisconsin-based Kanopy Dance to present Divine Mythologies. Featuring a cast of twenty one dancers, this production is a rare undertaking in today’s dance world of small, independent creators. The collaboration includes “Odes,” a 1965 dance by modern dance pioneer Anna Sokolow, and “Ekstasi,” by Kanopy’s Artistic Director and former Martha Graham dancer Lisa Thurrell. Two solos balance the group dances: “Transformations,” by Kanopy co-artistic director Robert Cleary, and an excerpt from Sokolow’s “Lyric Suite”. 

Though choreographed decades apart, the dances share a common theme of ritual. “Odes” is a luminous vision of humanity inspired by the turbulent world of Greek mythology, set to the music of Edgard Varèse, a progressive French/American composer and acclaimed pioneer of electronic music. Meanwhile “Ekstasi” reveals a celestial journey inspired by the art of St. Peter’s Basilica. Both “Transformations” and “Lyric Suite” explore the inner world of a single soul. Divine Mythologies comes to NYC on April 25 and 26 at 7PM, at MMAC Theater: 48 West 60th Street, New York, NY 10023.