Xin Ying in Martha Graham’s Clytemnestra (c) Hibbard Nash Photography.
Martha Graham Dance Company in Jamar Roberts’ We the People Photo by Isabella Pagano.
Martha Graham Dance Company in Baye & Asa’s Cortege Photo by Steven Pisano
Martha Graham Dance Company in Agnes de Mille’s Rodeo Photo by Carla Lopez.
Martha Graham and Erick Hawkins in Deaths and Entrances Photo by Barbara Morgan
Lloyd Knight in Baye & Asa’s Cortege Photo by Melissa Sherwood.
Alessio Crognale-Roberts, Marzia Memoli, and Lloyd Knight in Jamar Roberts’ We the People Photo by Isabella Pagano
Martha Graham Dance Company in Deaths and EntrancesPhoto by Barbara Morgan
Leslie Andrea Williams in Jamar Roberts’ We the People Photo by Isabella Pagano
Xin Ying in Martha Graham’s Immigrant Photo by Christopher Jones.
Martha Graham Dance Company in Baye & Asa’s Cortege Photo by Steven Pisano.
Martha Graham Dance Company in Deaths and Entrances Photo by Barbara Morgan
Robert Cohan in Deaths and EntrancesPhoto by Barbara Morgan
Robert Cohan and Stuart Hodes in Deaths and EntrancesPhoto by Barbara Morgan
Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins, and Merce Cunningham in Deaths and EntrancesPhoto by Barbara Morgan
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...Two programs will feature Martha Graham’s remarkable psychological classics alongside works from some of today’s must-see choreographers, including Baye & Asa and Hofesh Shechter. Graham’s rare Americana solos will be paired with Agnes de Mille’s joyous Rodeo and Jamar Roberts’s powerful We the People. Graham’s Greek-themed Clytemnestra Act II and Errand Into the Maze, both with modernist sets by Isamu Noguchi, will be presented alongside Deaths and Entrances, inspired by the Brontë sisters. The season also includes exciting new works from choreographer and leading Graham dancer Xin Ying and choreographer and Graham 2 director Virginie Mécène. Two masterworks delve into the complex minds of Graham’s female protagonists: Errand Into the Maze (1947), a dance that draws on the myth of Theseus in which a heroine, in Graham’s work, enters the labyrinth and battles the Minotaur, with a score by Gian Carlo Menotti; and the second act of Graham’s full-evening work Clytemnestra (1958). This dance drama is a retelling of Aeschylus’s Oresteia, seen from the perspective of Clytemnestra. The original score is by Halim El-Dabh.
Graham’s 1943 work Deaths and Entrances will be presented for the first time since 2012. Inspired by the lives of the Brontë sisters, the work looks at the struggle of women to follow their deepest impulses in the face of convention and tradition..."
