GrahamDeconstructed: "The Rite of Spring"
Company:
Martha Graham Dance Company
Martha Graham Dance Company presents
GrahamDeconstructed: The Rite of Spring
March 13-14, 2024
New York, NY, March 5, 2024 – The Martha Graham Dance Company’s Studio Series continues with a rehearsal run-through of Graham’s ritualist and visceral The Rite of Spring from 1984. The evening will include commentary about the work’s creation from Graham experts and original cast members. GrahamDeconstructed will take place March 13-14 (Wednesday and Thursday), at 7pm, at the Martha Graham Studio Theater, 55 Bethune Street, 11th Floor, in Manhattan.
Tickets for GrahamDeconstructed are $30 (general) / $20 (students) and are available at marthagraham.org/studioseries/.
About the Martha Graham Dance Company
The Martha Graham Dance Company has been a leader in the evolving art form of modern dance since its founding in 1926. It is both the oldest dance company in the United States and the oldest integrated dance company.
Today, the Company is embracing a new programming vision that showcases masterpieces by Graham alongside newly commissioned works by contemporary artists. With programs that unite the work of choreographers across time within a rich historical and thematic narrative, the Company is actively working to create new platforms for contemporary dance and multiple points of access for audiences.
Since its inception, the Martha Graham Dance Company has received international acclaim from audiences in more than 50 countries throughout North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. The Company has performed at the Metropolitan Opera House, 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 in Egypt and in the ancient Odeon of Herodes Atticus theater on the Acropolis in Athens. In addition, the Company has also produced several award-winning films broadcast on PBS and around the world. For more information about the Company, visit www.marthagraham.org.
Xin Ying and Lorenzo Pagano in Martha Graham’s "The Rite of Spring." Photo (c) Hubbard Nash Photography
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