The Dance Unit
Anna Sokolow’s company, the Dance Unit, performed repertory reflecting her social concerns. She created Homage to Lenin (1933), and in 1934, she was invited with her partner, composer Alex North (1910–1991), to visit the Soviet Union. Disillusioned, she wrote, “It was provoking to find that in a country with the most advanced political ideas in the world, the most modern experimental theatre, with unsurpassed cinema, they still cling so tenaciously to this [balletic] dance form.”
Anna Sokolow’s company, the Dance Unit, performed repertory reflecting her social concerns. She created <em>Homage to Lenin</em> (1933), and in 1934, she was invited with her partner, composer Alex North (1910–1991), to visit the Soviet Union. Disillusioned, she wrote, “It was provoking to find that in a country with the most advanced political ideas in the world, the most modern experimental theatre, with unsurpassed cinema, they still cling so tenaciously to this [balletic] dance form.”