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Avec quelques semaines d'avance, la Martha Graham Dance Company fête son centenaire en faisant dialoguer la danse d’avant-garde de sa fondatrice et le génie créatif effervescent de notre époque.

Après près de trente ans, la compagnie fondée en 1926 par la chorégraphe Martha Graham remonte sur les planches de l’Opéra Garnier. Pionnière de la danse moderne, la chorégraphe a laissé derrière elle un répertoire de plus de cent cinquante œuvres qui ont profondément marqué l’histoire de la danse. 

Martha Graham Dance Company impresses in its third program at The Joyce Theater, especially in Errand into the Maze.

Janet Eilber has done an amazing job of steering the Martha Graham Dance Company into the modern age with multiple mixed programs.

More centenary celebrations by the Martha Graham Dance Company: the first of several mixed bills this season displays the Graham dancers at their most powerful.  

Martha Graham Dance Company never disappoints. Especially good is her version of The Rite of Spring with Stravinsky's score played live.

Martha Graham's choreography, often inspired by Greek mythology, still has the power to shock.

The feeling at the end of the evening was one of triumph, with the future of the Martha Graham Dance Company looking as optimistic as the frontier couple in Appalachian Spring.

Martha Graham's dancers look terrific in the jumble of ancient and recent works that make up Program B at the Joyce. 

This program illustrates the difficulties of a dance company attempting to forge a path forward without the towering vision and talent of its founder.

La Martha Graham Dance Company mantiene viva la figura de su revolucionaria creadora y resulta una suerta casi inmerecida el poder poder apreciar a esta compañía, que por estos días llena de aplausos y bravos el Teatro Real de Madrid.

The dancers of the Martha Graham Dance Company may have been doing the repertoire of Ms Graham since the company’s inception in 1926, but Wednesday night’s program – featuring the work of four other choreographers – was proof that these are remarkably versatile dancers, capable of interpreting myriad forms of modern dance assuredly.

“I wanted to chart a graph of the heart – to reveal the inner landscape.”– Martha Graham.The iconic dancer and choreographer’s words are a theme throughout Inner Landscape. All the works presented have strong characterization, no matter how abstract, and focus on the internal feelings of each protagonist.