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After Scandals and Wrangles, The Return of Martha Graham The sense of occasion was so intense at the City Center, where the Martha Graham Dance Company held a one-night stand on May 9, that the actual...
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On the morning of Saturday, Feb. 1, Tom Wolfe got a phone call from NBC's Today show. "I had just gotten up," he said. "They said, 'Can you come on and talk about the shuttle?'" He was confused. "At...
View ArticleGraham’s Company Endures Takes a Big Step Forward
Considering the traumas-psychological, financial and legal-that the Martha Graham Dance Company has recently undergone, it's a miracle that it has pulled off the coherent two-week season that just...
View ArticleMartha Graham Resurrected-The Mythic Along With the Fluff
There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong. Because her choreographic career was so long-extending over 70 years-and because she changed direction so deliberately...
View ArticleTake the High Road with Limón—Modest, Serious, Uncompromised
To go to the Limón Dance Company is to find yourself in a prelapsarian world—the world of Modern Dance as it was imagined and embodied by the Founders: Martha Graham and, in particular, Doris Humphrey...
View ArticleCrowd-Pleasing Alvin Ailey, High-Minded Merce Cunningham
Santa's on his way, and that means the Alvin Ailey crew have checked in at the City Center for their annual five-week rave-up. And that means 20-odd performances of the company's bread-and-butter...
View ArticleContinuity at Graham’s Company Preserves the Founder’s Spirit
Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than I am, her genius as a performer will have to be taken on...
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Can Martha Graham Be Kept Alive?
For those of us who care about Martha Graham, it’s been a bumpy ride. I got on board in 1958, the year of Graham’s full-evening dance-drama Clytemnestra, the first work of hers I ever saw. To some...
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March Dance: In Like a Lion, Out Like a Graham!
After a dance week of occasional ups and all too many downs, Mark Morris came to the rescue with a program of three works previously unseen in New York, one a world premiere. The venue was his own...
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Mythologies: Despite Admirable Effort, the Martha Graham Company Just Can’t...
Abdiel Jacobsen and Diana Vishneva in 'Errand into the Maze.' This has been Martha Graham week in New York. Every year or two the Graham company bravely flings itself at us, living out its dream that...
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