Sophie Maslow. Poem
Description
Poem is a modern dance based on Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem, Autobiography, choreographed by Sophie Maslow to music by Duke Ellington. This program presents a performance, featuring Morrie Pierce (reading poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti), Sophie Maslow (choreographer), Herbert Lovell (drummer), Julie Arenal, William Dugan, Stanley Berke, Haruki Fujimoto, Carol Fried (dancers). In conversation Maslow emphasizes how her choreography is particularly concerned with the modern American dance idiom. She discusses the roots of contemporary dance and introduces her dance, in four movements.
Runtime
27 min 59 sec
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