Through her cultural influence on dance, as well as her impact on the reinvention of dance itself, Anna Sokolow has gone down in history as one of the great modern dancers. Her Jewish roots were an important basis for the dances she performed and the messages she tried to convey, which is important to me and my own similar religious views. It was important for dancers and choreographers to speak out for their beliefs and spread their message to the arts world, and Sokolow was one of those who did so with great success. Through her unique movement style, her eye-opening piece Rooms, and her personal connection to Judaism, Anna Sokolow's inspirations and works come together to address a powerful issue in Jewish society and culture of her time. Anna Sokolow was born on February 9. , 1910, in Hartford, Connecticut. His mother, Sarah, and father, Samuel, were hard-working immigrants from Belarus. Around the age of ten, she began taking dance classes at the Emanuel Fraternity of Personal Service. Anna devoted all her time to dance training and fell in love with dance. She had such an innate talent for dancing that she eventually decided to leave the Fraternity and begin training at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Here, dancers received top-notch hands-on training from some of the greatest choreographers and names in dance such as Blanche Talmud, Bird Larson, Martha Graham and Lois Horst. Sokolow really began to develop his ideas about movement and how it could be showcased and used to represent different things in different ways (Warren). In 1929, Sokolow began her dance career by joining Martha Graham's dance company. She spent a lot of time learning and studying from Graham o...... middle of paper......and the importance of Jewish culture. She, along with many other protest choreographers of the time, used dance as a way to spread their message to the world, while others simply saw dance as a form of beauty and entertainment. Modern dance was an excellent means of political protest and denouncing injustice; and she played a key role in raising awareness of Judaism in the dance world and revealing to the world some of its horrors in her time. Sokolow was able to do this through his ability to truly connect with his Jewish influences and inspirations in order to choreograph unique and precise movements into pieces that allowed the viewer to make some sort of connection with these powerful issues of culture and of Jewish society; whether these connections are personal or simply brought about by Sokolow's creative ingenuity in his choreography.