Excerpts from CANTICLE FOR INNOCENT COMEDIANS
Inspired by the work from 1952 by Martha Graham
New production conceived by Janet Eilber
Lead Choreographer: Sonya Tayeh
Choreography for vignettes by Martha Graham and Micaela Taylor
Music by Jason Moran
Costumes by Karen Young
Associate Choreographer: Jenn Freeman

Premiere: March 19, 2022, The Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts at California State University, Northridge

This is a dance of joy, in praise of the world as it turns.
–Martha Graham

Alessio Crognale   Laurel Dalley Smith   Natasha M. Diamond-Walker
Lloyd Knight   Jacob Larsen   Anne O’Donnell   Lorenzo Pagano
Anne Souder   Richard Villaverde   Leslie Andrea Williams   Xin Ying

Opening, Closing Dance and all Interludes for the Ensemble Choreography by Sonya Tayeh

Moon
Choreography by Martha Graham

Anne O’Donnell, Lloyd Knight

Stars
Choreography by Micaela Taylor

Laurel Dalley Smith, Lorenzo Pagano

Major support for Canticle for Innocent Comedians was provided by Tee Scatuorchio & Michael Becker.

This work was made possible with a significant commissioning grant from The O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation and was commissioned by The Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts with support from Jazz Road | South Arts Grant, California State University Northridge and Northrop Auditorium at The University of Minnesota.

Additional support was provided by Kenneth Bloom & Abby Meiselman, and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

A creative residency was sponsored by The Church, Sag Harbor.