Whom You Know: Martha Graham: About the Company and Upcoming Performances at The Joyce Theatre

Friday, May 21, 2010

Martha Graham: About the Company and Upcoming Performances at The Joyce Theatre

Founded in 1926 by dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, the Martha Graham Dance Company is the oldest and most celebrated contemporary dance company in America.

Since its inception, the Martha Graham Dance Company has received international acclaim from audiences in over 50 countries throughout North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. The Company has performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, the Paris Opera House, Covent Garden, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, as well as at the base of the Great Pyramids of Egypt and in the ancient Herod Atticus Theatre on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. In addition, the Company has also produced several award-winning films broadcast on PBS and around the world.

Martha Graham choreographed 181 works in her lifetime. Among these are such well known ballets as Heretic (1929), Lamentation (1930), Primitive Mysteries (1931), Frontier (1935), Deep Song (1937), El Penitente (1940), Letter to the World (1940), Deaths and Entrances (1943), Appalachian Spring (1944), Cave of the Heart (1946), Errand into the Maze (1947), Night Journey (1947), Diversion of Angels (1948), Seraphic Dialogue (1955), Clytemnestra (1958), Embattled Garden (1958), Phaedra (1962), Frescoes (1978), Acts of Light (1981), The Rite of Spring (1984), Temptations of the Moon (1986), and Maple Leaf Rag (1990).

Though Martha Graham herself is the best-known alumna of her company, having danced from the Company’s inception until the late 1960’s, the Company has provided a training ground for some of modern dance’s most illustrious performers and choreographers. Former members of the Company include Merce Cunningham, Erick Hawkins, Pearl Lang, Elisa Monte, Paul Taylor, Glen Tetley, Jacqulyn Buglisi, Donlin Foreman, and Pascal Rioult. Among celebrities who have joined the Company in performance are Mikhail Baryshnikov, Claire Bloom, Margot Fonteyn, Liza Minnelli, Rudolf Nureyev, Maya Plisetskaya, and Kathleen Turner. The Martha Graham Dance Company has commissioned works from Twyla Tharp, Robert Wilson, Susan Stroman, Lucinda Childs, and Maurice Béjart, which have been enthusiastically received by audiences and critics worldwide. The Martha Graham Dance Company even numbers among its alumnae Betty Bloomer, who, after dancing with the Company in 1938, became better known as First Lady Betty Ford.

Acknowledged as “one of the great companies of the world,” according to Anna Kisselgoff, former chief dance critic of The New York Times, the Martha Graham Dance Company has been lauded by critics throughout the world. Alan M. Kriegsman of The Washington Post referred to the Company as “one of the seven wonders of the artistic universe,” while Los Angeles Times critic Martin Bernheimer noted, “They seem able to do anything, and to make it look easy as well as poetic.” Ismene Brown of The Daily Telegraph, London, touted the Martha Graham Dance Company’s performance as “Unmissable,” and for Donald Richie of Japan Times these dancers were “Graham’s perfect instrument.”

Joyce Theater Program

Tuesday, June 8, 7:30 pm, Program A:

American Document (2010): Martha Graham Dance Company: Tadej Brdnik, Katherine Crockett, Lloyd Knight, Blakeley White-McGuire, Maurizio Nardi, Miki Orihara, Samuel Pott, Ben Schultz, Carrie Elmore-Tallitsch.

SITI Company: Akiko Aizawa, J. Ed Araiza, Leon Ingulsrud, Kelly Maurer, Barney O’Hanlon, Stephen Webber.

Sketches from Chronicle: Jennifer DePalo, Miki Orihara, Katherine Crockett, Blakeley White-McGuire, Carrie Elmore-Tallitsch, Jacqueline Bulnes, Jacquelyn Elder, Mariya Dashkina Maddux, Sevin Ceviker, Heather McGinley, Andrea Murillo, Xiaochuan Xie.

Wednesday, June 9, 7:30 pm, Program B:

Dance is a Weapon

The Revolutionary: Tadej Brdnik

Tenant of the Street: Carrie Elmore-Tallitsch

I Ain’t Got No Home (from Dust Bowl Ballads): Lloyd Knight

Time is Money: Maurizio Nardi

Panorama: Students from NYC public schools

Steps in the Street: Miki Orihara, Katherine Crockett, Carrie Elmore-Tallitsch, Blakeley White-McGuire, Jacqueline Bulnes, Jacquelyn Elder, Mariya Dashkina Maddux, Sevin Ceviker, Heather McGinley, Andrea Murillo, Xie Xiaochuan.

Prelude to Action: Jennifer DePalo, Miki Orihara, Katherine Crockett, Jacqueline Bulnes, Jacquelyn Elder, Mariya Dashkina Maddux, Sevin Ceviker, Heather McGinley, Andrea Murillo, Xie Xiaochuan.

Appalachian Spring: Blakeley White-McGuire, Samuel Pott, Maurizio Nardi, Katherine Crockett, Jacqueline Bulnes, Jacquelyn Elder, Mariya Dashkina Maddux, Heather McGinley.

Thursday, June 10, 8:00 pm, Program C:

Panorama: Students from NYC public schools

Appalachian Spring: Blakeley White-McGuire, Samuel Pott, Maurizio Nardi, Katherine Crockett, Jacqueline Bulnes, Jacquelyn Elder, Mariya Dashkina Maddux, Heather McGinley.

Lamentation Variations: Mariya Dashkina Maddux, Tadej Brdnik, Lloyd Knight, Maurizio Nardi, Katherine Crockett and entire company.

Sketches from Chronicle: Jennifer DePalo, Miki Orihara, Katherine Crockett, Blakeley White-McGuire, Carrie Elmore-Tallitsch, Jacqueline Bulnes, Jacquelyn Elder, Mariya Dashkina Maddux, Sevin Ceviker, Heather McGinley, Andrea Murillo, Xie Xiaochuan.

Friday, June 11, 8:00pm, Program A:

SITI Company: Akiko Aizawa, J. Ed Araiza, Leon Ingulsrud, Kelly Maurer, Barney O’Hanlon, Stephen Webber.

Saturday, June 12, Matinee 2:00pm, Program D:

Panorama: Students from NYC public schools

American Document Highlights and New Episodes: dancers from Graham II

Appalachian Spring: Blakeley White-McGuire, Samuel Pott, Maurizio Nardi, Katherine Crockett, Jacqueline Bulnes, Jacquelyn Elder, Mariya Dashkina Maddux, Heather McGinley.

Evening 8:00pm, Program A:

SITI Company: Akiko Aizawa, J. Ed Araiza, Leon Ingulsrud, Kelly Maurer, Barney O’Hanlon, Stephen Webber.

Sunday, June 13, Matinee 2:00pm, Program B:

Dance is a Weapon

The Revolutionary: Tadej Brdnik

Tenant of the Street: Carrie Elmore-Tallitsch

I Ain’t Got No Home (from Dust Bowl Ballads): Lloyd Knight

Time is Money: Maurizio Nardi

Panorama: Students from NYC public schools

Prelude to Action: Jennifer DePalo, Miki Orihara, Katherine Crockett, Jacqueline Bulnes, Jacquelyn Elder, Mariya Dashkina Maddux, Sevin Ceviker, Heather McGinley, Andrea Murillo, Xie Xiaochuan.

Appalachian Spring: Blakeley White-McGuire, Samuel Pott, Maurizio Nardi, Katherine Crockett, Jacqueline Bulnes, Jacquelyn Elder, Mariya Dashkina Maddux, Heather McGinley.

Evening 7:30pm, Program A:

SITI Company: Akiko Aizawa, J. Ed Araiza, Leon Ingulsrud, Kelly Maurer, Barney O’Hanlon, Stephen Webber.

Lamentation Variations: Mariya Dashkina Maddux, Tadej Brdnik, Lloyd Knight, Maurizio Nardi, Katherine Crockett and entire company.

Program A will be performed: Tuesday, June 8, 7:30 pm / Friday, June 11, 8:00pm / Saturday, June 12, 8:00pm / Sunday, June 13^,7:30pm

Program B will be performed: Wednesday, June 9, 7:30pm / Sunday, June 13, 2:00pm

Program C will be performed: Thursday, June 10, 8:00pm

Program D will be performed: Saturday, June 12, 2:00pm

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