The American choreographer Carolyn Dorfman and her company, Carolyn Dorfman Dance, have been a fixture in the American modern dance scene for over 40 years, creating a significant body of work with poignant and thought-provoking subject matter. Her works are informed by her experience as a child of Holocaust survivors and a first-generation Eastern European Jew. She spoke to ICONS about these dances, how they came to be, and how they exist in the context of her career. The dances were made as tributes to history, but Dorfman fears they are all too relevant today.

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• Sharon M. - I like the work of Urban Bush Women. It is about not just the art form, but also social outreach.
• Noncy F. - The epic works of musical, literary and philosophical geniuses and of course- dreams! Dreams- the perfect poetic collision of fiction and nonfiction, personal and universal!
• Kathleen K. - Merce Cunningham, a genius dance maker ahead of his time that used chance procedure and other methods to create magic for the global dance community.

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