"I'M NOT HERE TO BE POLITE, I'M HERE TO TELL THE TRUTH"

- Anna Sokolow

Join our 2019 spring season. This year will feature works about love and justice, including a work by guest choreographer Robert Cleary of Kanopy Dance, and a reconstruction of another long-lost Sokolow work.

Revival: Three Poems

Based on a tip from a former student of Anna’s at Juilliard, Artistic Director Samantha Geracht is reconstructing another long-dormant work of Anna Sokolow’s, not seen since the mid-1970s. Three Poems features a mysterious, mythic women’s quartet, an ultra-high-energy large group, and a smouldering duet. New costumes will be designed by New York City stylist and fashion designer Epperson.

Guest choreographer Robert Cleary

Robert Cleary is co-artistic director with Lisa Thurrell of Kanopy Dance in Madison, Wisconsin. We will perform his provocative work, This is Not America. It is a statement about the inequalities in life here in our country, as relevant now as it was when Cleary choreographed it in 2000.

Also on the program:

Steps of Silence — Ms. Sokolow’s shattering vision of people denied their humanity, trapped and invisible.

The Desperate Heart — Associate Artistic Director Eleanor Bunker will perform Valerie Bettis’ compelling 1943 solo, to the poetry of John Malcolm Brining.

Sleeping Bouquet — An intimate portrait of a stormy relationship, choreographed by Jim May and performed by Francesca Todesco and Daniel Fetecua Soto.

Performances:
Thur – Sat, March 21-23 at 8 pm
Sun, March 24 at 3 pm

The Mark O’Donnell Theater at The Actors Fund Arts Center
160 Schermerhorn Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201