From February 19-26, 2021 you can stream the Martha Graham Dance Company performing Appalachian Spring, Then and Now, Graham’s iconic and revered work with original music by Aaron Copland. In this presentation, filmed at Jacob’s Pillow in 2019, performance excerpts are interspersed with readings of letters between Martha Graham and Aaron Copland. Current Martha Graham Artistic Director Janet Eilber speaks about the historical and current relevance of this work along with archival video from 1947 with dancers Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins, May O’Donnell, Merce Cunningham, Nina Fonaroff, Pearl Lang, Marjorie Maza, Yuriko. Free performance, donations gratefully accepted. More info: https://meanycenter.org/tickets/2021-02/production/online-martha-graham-dance-company-appalachian-spring-then-and-now
In addition, the Company’s artistic director Janet Eilber and dancer Natasha Diamond-Walker will be in conversation with Meany Center Executive and Artistic Director Michelle Witt and David Rahbee (Senior Artist-In-Residence, Director of Orchestras and Chair of Orchestral Conducting at UW), to discuss the collaboration between Martha Graham and Aaron Copland — one of the greatest artistic relationships of all time — and what their partnership teaches us about the interdependence of creative collaboration. FREE. Streaming on demand. No pre-registration required. Donations gratefully accepted. More info: https://meanycenter.org/tickets/2021-02/production/online-martha-graham-dance-company-collaboration-springs-eternal
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