Sustaining a dance troupe after its founder’s death requires enormous feats of imagination. The Martha Graham Dance Company, just over ninety years old and since 2005 in the custody of former ...

It can feel overwhelming to watch a dance. But if you follow the hands, they can unlock the mysteries of a moving body. By Gia Kourlas Her connection to the great modern dancer lasted a lifetime, from ...

AAPG copy 39088014398259 gift of author. AAPG copy 39088014398259 inscribed by author. Contents Introduction: the legacy begins -- Pittsburgh -- Santa Barbara -- Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn: the ...

Before Janet Eilber became the artistic director of the Martha Graham Dance Company in 2005, she was a dancer. Eilber danced in the company throughout the 1970s, under the tutelage of Graham herself.

Errand Into the Maze, by Deborah Jowitt (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). This astute biography, by a veteran Village Voice critic, traces the long career of Martha Graham, a choreographer who became one of ...

Martha Graham Dance Company is bringing back Deaths and Entrances (1943) to include in its 99th anniversary season as part of the eclectic Dances of the Mind program running April 1-13 at The Joyce ...