Opening night of the Martha Graham Spring 2024 season at New York City Center
Wednesday evening, April 17th - Martha Graham - When Dance Became Modern front and center at the Company's merchandise stand in City Center lobby.
The Rite of Spring transforms the Martha Graham Studio
Thursday evening, March 13, 8:00 p.m., at 55 Bethune Street, 11th floor - The Martha Graham dancers introduce themselves after an incandescent, primal, thunderous, airborne, simultaneously rough-hewn and liquid rehearsal performance. Graham's 1984 re-vision of...
The one and only Lloyd Knight – NYPL Martha Graham @ 100 Symposium
Friday, January 26th, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. in the Bruno Walter Auditorium - Privileged to bear witness to MGDC principal dancer Lloyd Knight's presentation, Martha's Influence - "The Effect of the Necessity" - Hers & Mine, fitting culmination of the ecstatic daylong...
Ironic MARTHA sighting at Museum of Modern Art Store
SHEPHERD – a wonderful new site for booklovers.
https://shepherd.com/bboy/2023/f/neil-baldwin
MARTHA GRAHAM – WHEN DANCE BECAME MODERN – now on Spotify!
[Screenshot by Richard Fahrer.]
Thanks to Sen. Bill Bradley and producer Devorah Klahr for re-posting my childhood memory on their AMERICAN VOICES podcast
The Dance Historian Is In – MICHIO ITO’s modern provenance
At The NYPL for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium, Wednesday, October 25, 2023 - Wendy Perron and Muna Tseng share their exploratory scholarship and embodied experience in a revelatory discussion of Michio Ito's...
MARTHA in Madrid
Thanks as always to eagle-eyed Leslie Andrea Williams, on tour in Spain with the Martha Graham Dance Company, for spotting my book at the Biblioteca y Centro de Documentacion - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.
ART FOR THE MILLIONS – from the curator’s perspective
What a privilege to spend an instructive hour at The Metropolitan Museum of Art with Allison Rudnick, Associate Curator, Drawings and Prints, guiding me through her thoughtfully-mounted exhibition resonating with the social conscience, iconoclasm and raw energy of...
On Indigenous Peoples’ Day – remembering a long-ago visit to the Yucatan
February 2, 1988 - We emerged from our subterranean adventure in the Caves of Loltun in the Puuc region south of Oxkutzcab, met the artist Vicente Chable Canul, and talked with him about the fieldwork for my book in progress, Legends of the Plumed Serpent. He offered...
MARTHA dances at The MET – beauty in the eyes of the beholders
2:05 p.m., Saturday, October 7, 2023 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The American Wing - Charles Engelhard Court. Art for the Millions - Radical Dance for the People - takes flight as Xin Ying, Principal Dancer of the Martha Graham Company, performs Graham's...