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Performances of "Reflections + Dreams" by Kanopy Dance are Feb. 18-20, 2022.

Madison’s Kanopy Dance Company will perform a program titled “Reflections + Dreams,” starring the choreography of social justice-driven dancer Anna Sokolow and featuring five guest artists from Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble of New York City. The show includes legendary works on the captivating and frustrating aspects of human love and longing, including Sokolow's Scenes from The Music of Charles Ives (1971) and Ballade (1965). “Reflections + Dreams” will also showcase the passionate “Mourner’s Bench” (1947, a segment of Southern Landscape) by the late, great, Black American choreographer Talley Beatty, tackling highly emotional themes of virtue and oppression. Performances at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 18; 2 and 5 p.m., Feb. 19; and 1 and 4 pm, Feb. 20. Read more at Katie Reiser’s preview.

media release: Kanopy’s Reflections + Dreams Opening February 18-20,2022 

Kanopy’s "Reflections + Dreams", a moving and hopeful multicultural dance experience with the work of modern dance visionaries and social activists, Russian-Jewish Anna Sokolow and Black American Talley Beatty, at center stage. Five  guest dancers from the NYC’s Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble, featured star soloist Clarence Brooks, and the Kanopy Dance Company will perform unforgettable and exquisite dance  in four Midwest premieres.  

Significant works  featured in "Reflections + Dreams" by the dynamic and uncompromising Anna Sokolow include two excerpts from Sokolow’s Scenes from The Music of Charles Ives, 1971, (“The Pond and the Cage” and  “The Unanswered Question”)--studies in poetic human yearning, and an excerpt from Magritte, Magritte, 1970, inspired by the  Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte , (“The Lovers”, a duet)... Additionally on the program is Sokolow’s Ballade (1965), exploring the restlessness and inconclusiveness of young love.  

And in a  truly rare opportunity for audience, guest artist, Clarence Brooks, will perform Talley Beatty’s poignant masterpiece “Mourner’s Bench”.

In this emotionally charged solo,  Talley, inspired by Howard Fast’s award-winning novel Freedom Road (1942), references the tragic destruction of a mixed-race community in the rural South after the Civil War by the Ku Klux Klan.

 Kanopy Dance will strictly follow all Covid Safety Protocols mandated by the Overture Center for the Arts for audience members attending Reflections + Dreams performances.