Join Samantha Geracht, artistic director of the Sokolow Theatre Dance Ensemble, to learn about Anna Sokolow, a modern dance pioneer and a Jewish voice for justice. This Jewish Federation of the Berkshires program will be presented via Zoom. This presentation will trace Anna Sokolow’s (1910-2000) life and art from New York City’s Lower East Side surrounded by the Socialist artistic movement flourishing at the time, through her development as a world-renowned modernist choreographer, to her lifelong ties to Israel with its own modern dance roots. Sokolow was a Jewish cultural icon, daughter of immigrants and social activist whose powerful theatrical choreography shaped American modern dance over the course of a 70-year choreographic career. She believed that dance could be more than entertainment and explored the pressing issues of her day. She spoke truth to power as early as the 1930s when she saw Hitler’s political rise. Explore Sokolow’s life and her choreographic creation of dramatic contemporary imagery showing both the lyric and stark aspects of the human experience, threading her commentaries on humanity and social justice throughout her work.