Warm Up: Anatomy as a Master Image

As a performer Ruth Solomon has appeared on and off Broadway, on television, and in concerts throughout the United States, Canada, and Japan. She was for many years a permanent member and solo dancer with the Jean Erdman Dance Theater. Ms. Solomon has created more than sixty works in her unique version of the modern dance idiom, in addition to staging and choreographing such diverse musical/dramatic productions as Euripides' Hecuba, Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat, and Brecht's Three Penny Opera. Her most recent productions, based loosely on the lives and works of Egon Schiele and Dimitri Shostakovich, were done on dancers at SUNY-Potsdam (2002) and the University of Wisconsin, Madison (2004). From 1967 to 1970 she was assistant director of the dance program at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. She then directed the dance program that she established in Theater Arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz, until her retirement in 1995.