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Gluck Sandor

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Choreographer 1899–1978 On stage 1953–1964

Gluck Sandor (1899–1978), aka Senia Gluck-Sandor, was an American artist, dancer, director, producer, actor, mime and teacher. He made his stage debut in the Met Opera production of Le Coq d'Or in 1918, and continued to choreograph, dance, and act in several Broadway productions from the 1920s through the early 1970s. He married dancer and choreographer Felicia Sorel, and in 1931 they opened The Intimate Theatre in New York City where they taught dance, mime, choreography, and dance theory. In 1930 he went to Europe to study with the Wigman school of Modern Dance and returned to N.Y. in September 1931. Sandor and Sorel, established "The Dance Center" a dance school and a professional dance c…

On stage 2 productions, 11 years

1953 Camino Real National Theatre · Original · directed by Elia Kazan 60 perf.
1964 Fiddler on the Roof Imperial Theatre · Original · directed by Jerome Robbins 3,242 perf.

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Earl Carroll Vanities
Pins And Needles

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In the literature1 passages

  • Robbins’s first serious dance teacher, Gluck Sandor, had been hired by Schwartz as a choreographer and he brought Robbins (as well as his sister, Sonia) along with him. The show was I. J. Singer’s Di brider ashkenazi (The Brothers Ashkenazi ), an epic novel adapted for the stage the moment it came off the press. Sprawling and full of twis…ebooks/Solomon, Alisa/Wonder of Wonders_ A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof - Alisa Solomon.txt

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