The Martha Graham Company 100th Anniversary 1926-2026
By Rachel Sherman The New York Times, June 7, 2023 A documentary, a coffee-table book, an international tour and an opera partnership will be some of the many homages to the Martha Graham Dance Company as it celebrates its 100th anniversary, starting this fall. In...
A beautifully-produced podcast hosted by Bill Bradley on Sirius XM and featuring NB
American Voices with Senator Bill Bradley Produced by Devorah Klahr. Sunday morning at 11 am ET, with replays at 8 pm. SiriusXM Radio, POTUS, Channel 124. Also available on the SXM app! Pianist and Arts Advocate Min Kwon and her America/Beautiful project. 70...
Anna Sokolow’s Poetics @ Hunter College Dance Studio Theater – NYC – May 31 and June 1, 2023
Samantha Geracht, artistic director of Sokolow Theater/Dance Ensemble, in post-show danceaturgy conversation with NB about (Re)Making Slaughter of the Innocents, Ballad in a Popular Style, Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter, and Kaddish. (Photo: Andrew Baldwin).
Legendary Artists – Martha Graham, Sonny Rollins and Stephen Sondheim at the Montclair Literary Festival
Moderator Amanda Vaill (Everybody Was So Young) talks with NB (Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern), Aidan Levy (Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins) and D.T.Max (Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim) in the Library Tent at the...
Martha in Rochester’s Eastman School 1925-1926
The Spring 2023 issue of The Rochester Review features a cover story on Martha Graham's brief tenure teaching at the Eastman School from Fall 1925-Spring 1926 along with an excerpt from Martha Graham - When Dance Became Modern and an interview with Neil Baldwin...
An illuminating Curtain Chat at the Joyce Theater in NYC
A provocative, graceful trio of vintage and contemporary -- Embattled Garden, Cortege 2023, and Canticle for Innocent Comedians -- brought the Joyce Theater audience to its feet at the second night of the Martha Graham Dance Company spring 2023 season. Then it was a...
When Dance Became Modern at the Toronto Public Library
On the evening of April 17, it was my great honor and pleasure to be hosted by the Toronto Public Library for a discussion about MARTHA GRAHAM. Elspeth Harding, (left), Senior Producer, Cultural and Special Events, welcomed me to the Appel Salon with impeccable charm;...
The joys of reading at Hazel Elementary School Kindergarten, West Orange, NJ – March 31, 2023.
Remembering Stuart Hodes – Nov 27, 1924 – March 15, 2023
I read of Stuart Hodes' passing in The New York Times this morning -- and, despite my sadness, have been walking around NYC smiling, inwardly and outwardly, all day long, remembering his angular energy and quick wit and eloquent passion for dance and life. I was...
BIO International asks, “Would you Rather…?”
Eloquent exponent of modernism – Nicholas Fox Weber on MARTHA GRAHAM.
Women’s History Month 2023 – Christa Wolf – Lest we forget
"We forget too easily: woman as an intellectual has existed in appreciable numbers only for the last sixty or seventy years. We know stories of her and about her, but her history -- a history of incredible exertion and courage, but also of incredible self-denial and...