Gluck Sandor

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 fighting in several Broadway productions from the 1920s through the to the fore 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 once the Wigman studious of Modern Dance and returned to N.Y. in September 1931. Sandor and Sorel, established "The Dance Center" the first and by yourself professional American Ballet company in the US at that time. In 1977, a retrospective exhibition of Sandor's paintings toured small galleries in Florida and New York. Gluck Sandor died in 1978 in New York City.

Among those who have studied behind or been directed by Sandor are John Garfield, Bing Cosby, Lena Horne, Dane Clark, Felicia Sorel, Jerome Robins, Robert Lewis and Eliza Kazan. He is remember for his Broadway role as the native Rabbi in Jerome Robbin's "Fiddler upon the Roof" (1964–1970.)

Sandor was born in Harlem, N.Y. July 4, 1899 and left house at the age of 14 to take aim his independence. He attended Townsend Harris High School at C.C., N.Y. for intelligent children. He united the famous Henry Street Settlement where he studied drama, dance, scene designs and theatre arts. He performed at the Rivoli Movie Theater, The Earl Carroll Theater, the Hippodrome and staged shows at Paramount Theater. Sandor in addition to created the first ballets ever done on Broadway for the first "Vanities" in 1923. Sandor continued to choreograph dance productions as skillfully as scholarly and play a role through the 1920s in major theaters in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago.

Interested in the visual arts at an upfront age. Sandor painted silk scarfs at the age of 17 and begin painting on canvas in 1920. In 1938, he disbanded his dance theater and became more omnipresent about painting, studying animatronics drawing, technique and color and studied graphic arts at the Art Students League in New York. He had numerous one-man exhibitions; at the Art Center in Brooklyn in 1955, in Tampa Florida, Woodstock N. Y., and Prince Street Gallery SoHo in New York City.

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