[Dancenews] Fw: Martha Graham Dance Company

[Alia Thabit]

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Catamount Arts Proudly Presents....

Martha Graham Dance Company
Tuesday, September 29th, 7:00pm
Alexander Twilight Theater, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, Vermont
Tickets: CALL 802-748-2600, $35 General Public/$29 Catamount Arts members
Website Link: http://marthagraham.org/company/
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OR CALL THE BOX OFFICE AT 802-748-2600

In their only Vermont appearance this season, the full Martha Graham
Dance Company will present an evening of contemporary dance at 7:00pm
Tuesday, September 29, in the Alexander Twilight Theatre at Lyndon
State College. This special program is a presentation of the Handy
Foundation, St. Johnsbury Academy and Catamount Arts.
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 one Betty
Bloomer, who, after dancing with the Company in 1938, became better
known as First Lady Betty Ford. Elizabeth Auclair, Tadej Brdnik, Miki
Orihara, and Christophe Jeannot in Embattled Garden; photo by Nan
Melville. "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."


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