This past fall, in a sunlit studio in Manhattan’s West village, the Martha Graham Dance Company was rehearsing a production of Cave of the Heart, a fiery one-act ballet created in 1946. Four barefoot ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After a rapturous reception in and sold out performances in four French cities,the legendary Martha Graham Dance Company, ...

In 1926, Martha Graham founded her dance company and school, living and working out of a tiny Carnegie Hall studio in midtown Manhattan. In developing her technique, Martha Graham experimented ...

In 1929 an American critic, Henry McBride, observed that “the centre of the world has shifted” from Paris to New York. America did not just have cultural capital—it was becoming the West’s cultural ...

Dancer and choreographer Martha Graham held her first-ever performance on April 18, 1926 in New York City, and as her groundbreaking work reshaped the world of dance in the decades that followed, ...

Martha Graham Dance Company is turning 100! Soon. In two years, to be exact. But it’s never too early to start the party, and the Company will perform American Legacies at New York City Center as part ...

The feet. Martha Graham did not stick her dancers into dainty ballet slippers. No, her dancers and Graham herself in performance, went barefoot. And the foot was flexed – taut and expressive – not ...

Martha Graham revolutionized American modern dance. Her life and legacy are worthy of reflection. Graham’s early childhood dance experiences were, naturally, the chief influences on the choreography ...

Martha Graham (1894-1991), heralded in her lifetime as “the mother of modern dance,” is being especially celebrated this year in the city where her career began and evolved.

What 23 very American things tell us about our country. By Michael Barbaro, Alex Barron, Tina Antolini, Wendy Dorr, Sophia Lanman, Dan Powell, Marion Lozano, Pat McCusker and Chris Wood The ...

In 1936, American choreographer Martha Graham declined an opportunity to appear at the Olympic Games in Germany. It was a rare moment of political dissent; Graham, who had several Jewish dancers in ...