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.
The richnesses of dance – Lincoln Center Plaza at the advent of summer ’23
Wendy Perron (right) and I had just emerged into the mid-day sun after an utterly invigorating two hours' tour of the new Border Crossings exhibition in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, when who should we run into but show-biz and dance luminaries...
MARTHA GRAHAM’s “cultural moment” – an extraordinary, wide-ranging essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education
In the June 12, 2023 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Alexander C. Kafka takes a comprehensive, Zeitgeist-attuned dive into the current efflorescence of Martha Graham - her aesthetic, technique, and scholarly resurgence: A Martha Graham Moment - On page and...
MARTHA sighting @ Inscribe Books, a brave new “indie” in Clarkston, Michigan
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...