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Biographical Note - Anna Sokolow
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1910 February 9 | Anna Sokolow born to Samuel and Sarah Sokolow in Hartford, Connecticut |
| 1925-1930 | Studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse (New York, New York) with Blanche Talmud, Bird Larson, Martha Graham, and Louis Horst |
| 1930-1938 | Performed with Martha Graham’s dance company, appeared in Graham’s Primitive Mysteries Served as Horst's assistant in Neighborhood Playhouse choreography classes |
| 1933 | Formed dance company and premiered Anti-War Cycle, first collaboration with composer Alex North |
| 1935 | Strange American Funeral performed by Sokolow's company, Dance Unit |
| 1938-1939 | Studied ballet with Margaret Curtis at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School |
| 1939 | The Exile, a solo piece, debuted with Dance Unit's first program of the year Traveled to Mexico with a company of twelve dancers |
| 1940 | Choreographed Don Lindo de Almería and Renacuajo paseador for La Paloma Azul dance company in Mexico City |
| 1945 | Created and performed Kaddish and Mexican Retablo at the 92nd Street Y, New York City |
| 1951 | The Dybbuk premiered at the Studio Theatre, New York City |
| 1952 | A Short Lecture Demonstration on the Evolution of Tiger Rag Presented by Jelly Roll Morton first performed, retitled later replacing "Tiger Rag" with "Ragtime" |
| 1953 | Traveled to Israel and worked with dancer-choreographer Sara Levi-Tanai and the Inbal Yemenite Dance Group Assisted director Elia Kazan with original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams's Camino Real |
| 1954 | Lyric Suite and L'Histoire du Soldat premiered at the 92nd Street Y |
| 1955 | First performance of Rooms, inspired by work teaching movement at the Actor’s Studio |
| 1956 | Poem premiered at Brooklyn Academy of Music |
| 1958-1965 | Created several dance pieces with similar movement vocabulary as Opus series |
| 1961 | Dreams first performed at Herbert Berghof Studio, New York City |
| 1962-1964 | Founded and choreographed for the Lyric Theatre, a dance company in Israel |
| 1964-1966 | Created Question, Ballade, Odes, and Night for the Juilliard Dance Ensemble |
| 1966 | Received her first Senior Fulbright scholarship to Japan, additional Fulbright awarded in 1975 |
| 1967 | Used grant from National Council on the Arts to create Déserts And the Disciples Departed choreographed for television to commemorate Good Friday |
| 1968 | Choreographed Steps of Silence for the Repertory Dance Theatre, Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 1970 | Magritte, Magritte and Act Without Words No. 1 premiered |
| 1975 | Choreographed Moods for the Contemporary Dance System |
| 1976 | Ellis Island created for the Juilliard Dance Ensemble |
| 1979 | Así es la vida en México performed by Juilliard Dance Ensemble |
| 1980 | For Langston [Hughes] choreographed for the Rod Rodgers Dance Company |
| 1984 | Homage to David Alfaro Siqueiros premiered in Mexico City |
| 1988 | Given the Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest civilian honor awarded in Mexico to a foreigner |
| 1991 | Received the Samuel E. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement in Choreography |
| 1998 | Inducted into the National Museum of Dance Hall of Fame |
| 2000 March 29 | Died in New York City, New York |