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Limon rediscovers Rooms: restaging Sokolow's modern landmark.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-OCT-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Limon rediscovers Rooms: restaging Sokolow's modern landmark.(Limon Dance Company's revival of Anna Sokolow's Rooms )

Article Excerpt
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Today, more than 50 years after its premiere, Anna Sokolow's Rooms remains relevant, profound, and disturbing. At its premiere in 1955, Louis Horst wrote in the Dance Observer that Rooms revealed "the psychological behavior arising from each individual's gnawing problem of aloneness in the contemporary world." In the 30-some years that I have shown the 1966 film of this work to dance history students, they have never failed to respond to its affecting depiction of alienation and despondency.

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