Martha Graham Dance Company presents a special Studio Series event with NYC-based filmmaker Josefina Rotman Lyons
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Martha Graham Dance Company
Martha Graham Dance Company presents a special GrahamGathering with
Josefina Rotman Lyons, Defining Beauty in the World of Dance, February 7, 2023
New York, NY (January 10, 2023) – On February 7, the Martha Graham Dance Company will present a special studio event featuring a screening of the documentary Revival (2020) by New York City-based filmmaker Josefina Rotman Lyons. The film involves dance, aging, and community and features venerable Graham Company alumni Ellen Graff, Marnie Thomas Wood, and Stuart Hodes, along with renowned artist George Faison. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Lyons and several of the cast members.
The event will take place on Tuesday, February 7, at 7pm, at the Martha Graham Studio Theater. Tickets are $30 (general) / $20 (students). For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.marthagraham.org/studioseries/. Proceeds from this event will benefit the Graham School.
The Martha Graham Studio Theater is located at 55 Bethune Street, 11th floor, in Manhattan.
Program run time: 90 minutes
About Revival:
Director and Producer: Josefina Rotman Lyons. Director of Photography and Editor: Will Kitchings.
Synopsis: In the spring of 2017, four older choreographers, once seminal participants in the modern dance world and Broadway, started the monumental task of creating dances with a diverse group of New York City seniors, most of whom had never danced on stage before. Over a few intense months, these choreographers, including the first black artist to have won a Tony award for choreography and a 92-year old former dance partner of pioneer Martha Graham, brought to life their ideas and sparked immense joy in the senior dancers. The film documents this unlikely event and, in the process, reveals the heroic dedication and determination of the choreographers and dancers, for whom age does not impede but molds.
Josefina Rotman Lyons is a New York City-based filmmaker. Revival is her first film and has screened at numerous film festivals, where it won jury and audience awards. Previously, Lyons assisted Kathy Leichter with her documentary Here One Day and later Peter Rosen with his PBS American Masters documentary about architect Eero Saarinen. Lyons is a lawyer who transitioned into filmmaking in 2010. For years, she helped the arts community as a member of non-profit organizations. She studied filmmaking in Boston and New York. Lyons was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and moved to the United States for college.
About Martha Graham Dance Company
The Martha Graham Dance Company has been a leader in the development of contemporary dance since its founding in 1926. 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, 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 Herod Atticus Theatre 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.
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