Deborah Zall Project presents Dances by Dudley, Maslow, Sokolow, Zall, 5/12-13
By: A.A. Cristi May. 09, 2017
TIME IS MONEY (1932) Jane Dudley/poem by Sol Funaroff, read by Margaret Klenck Staged by Martin Lofsnes, custodian for the Jane Dudley Estate.
performer: Erica Dankmeyer
performer: Nya Bowman "Dusty Old Dust" from DUSTBOWL BALLADS (1941) Sophie Maslow/Woody Guthrie Reconstructed by Lynn Frielinghaus Reconstruction courtesy of Abigail Blatt (daughter of Sophie Maslow) on behalf of the Estate of Sophie Maslow
performer: Jennifer Conley "Andante Amoroso" from LYRIC SUITE (1953) Anna Sokolow/Alban Berg Reconstructed by Samantha Geracht
performer: Jennifer Conley KADDISH (1945/1984) Anna Sokolow/Maurice Ravel Kaddish is a Jewish prayer for the dead that celebrates life.
Sokolow created Kaddish in 1945 as a testament to victims of the holocaust and a renewal of Sokolow's Jewish heritage.
In 1984, she restaged the solo for Deborah Zall, who is now passing it on.
performer: Erica Dankmeyer "A Point of Doctrine" from THE VILLAGE I KNEW (1954) Sophie Maslow, Samuel Matlovsky Reconstructed by Abigail Blatt, Lynn Frielinghaus, Deborah Zall
performers: Carrie Ellmore-Tallitsch and Kenneth Topping
GEORGE SAND (excerpt)
Deborah Zall/Chopin
Text adapted by Mary Humphrey Baldridge
The joy of love is but a moment, then despair of love. performer: Sandra Kaufmann
SHADOW OF HER SISTER
Deborah Zall/Robert H. Waldman
Inspired by F. Garcia Lorca's La Casa de Bernarda Alba performers: Lauren Newman, Caterina Rago
AMANDA
Deborah Zall/Stephen Weinstock
Inspired by Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie
The mirror has one truth. performer: Erica Dankmeyer SONNET
Deborah Zall/Eugene Lester
Inspired by the work of Edna St. Vincent Millay dancer: Carrie Ellmore-Tallitsch
poem spoken by Jennifer Conley
MARY TYRONE
Deborah Zall/Arnold Schoenberg
Inspired by Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night performer: Nya Bowman * * *
DEBORAH ZALL's career as an independent solo artist, specializing in dramatic portrayals of women, has taken her around the world, performing at the Edinburgh Festival, Cannes Festival and Biennial de la Danse in France, Contempo Tanz in Guatemala, the South Bank Center and The Place in London, and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, to name a few. In addition to her own choreography, her repertory includes works created especially for her by Jane Dudley, Stuart Hodes, Igal Perry and Eleo Pomare. Her unique talents prompted several renowned choreographers to reconstruct solo works for her, including Ruth St. Denis's Incense, Brahms-Liebestraum, Gold Madonna (reconstructed by Jane Sherman); Jane Dudley's The Lonely Ones; Sophie Maslow's The Village I Knew; Anna Sokolow's Kaddish; Ethel Winter's En Dolor, Yuriko's The Cry, and Proverbs by Jane Dudley, created especially for Ms. Zall and Bertram Ross. Zall has created works for the Los Angeles Ballet, made possible by a grant from the NEA; the Arkansas Ballet in Little Rock; and the Harkness Dance Players. She restaged Bertram Ross' work Nocturne for the Martha Graham Dance Ensemble and the Ailey/Fordham Dancers, and assisted Yuriko in restaging Steps in the Street. CBS-TV, PBS, and the BBC in London have filmed Ms. Zall's works for telecast, and her Kaddish for Ten Women has been staged and filmed at schools and universities in London. Zall, considered a master teacher of the Graham technique, teaches workshops in the US and internationally, most recently in London at Middlesex University, Laban Centre and The Place. Her mentor and great friend, Bertram Ross, has given her the legacy of his work, and she is making them available for restaging.
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