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...
Three dance luminaries grace the opening for the monumental BORDER CROSSINGS exhibition at The NYPL for the Performing Arts
What a delight to run into Limon Dance Company versatile veteran Daniel Fetecua, Martha Graham Company premiere danseuse alumna, the ever-luminous Blakeley White-McGuire and brilliantly ascendant Limon Company member Nicholas Ruscica last night among the hundreds in...
A must-see – MARTHA at the Met – ART FOR THE MILLIONS opens Thursday, September 7th
"That girl, who was myself, is seeing a great landscape -- untrammeled," Martha Graham said of Frontier: American Perspective of the Plains (1935), her first collaboration with Isamu Noguchi, now gloriously and ecstatically on view at the welcoming entrance to Art for...
In the rehearsal studio with choreographer extraordinaire Kristilee Maiella and the KM Dance Collective
August 30, 2023 @ 2:00 p.m. - Such a prideful afternoon at the Dance Academy of North Jersey in Lake Hopatcong, bearing witness to my brilliant former danceaturgy student, Kristilee Maiella (Montclair State University BFA Dance, 2020), winner of the NJPAC New Jersey...
A glorious Saturday afternoon “Pillow Talk” in Blake’s Barn
What an honor and a pleasure to spend a wonderful hour on August 19th talking with Jacob's Pillow scholar-in-residence Maura Keefe about Martha Graham - When Dance Became Modern before a blessedly attentive capacity audience -- and then to sign (many) copies of my...
LAMENTATION selected by Wendy Perron for “iconic short solos”
Go here to see all of Wendy's intriguing choices.