Join us for archival films and performances, conversations, and interactive digital events!
The Martha Graham Dance Company’s 2020-21 Season online programming includes all-new Martha Matinees, Digital Studio Series performances, and a variety of new ways for audiences and the global dance community to engage with the Company while social distancing. All Martha Matinees and Studio Series performances feature live chat with Graham Artistic Director Janet Eilber and special guests.
Martha Matinees will premiere free on YouTube; subscribe to our Patreon for a virtual front row seat to all Digital Studio Series events!
Wednesday, September 23, and Saturday, September 26 at 2:30pm
Martha Matinees: The EVE Project
The finale of The Eve Project, the Company’s celebration of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, will feature a rarely-seen film by Julien Bryan of Martha Graham in her masterwork Frontier from 1935. We’ll also premiere a montage of submissions from our #19Poses Insta-Graham Challenge – and announce the challenge winners!
Wednesday, November 4 and Saturday, November 7 at 2:30pm
Martha Matinees: Night Journey
Graham’s 1947 reimagining of the tragedy of Oedipus as told through the eyes of his wife and mother Jocasta. Featuring rare clips of Graham as Jocasta onstage in the 1950s and in the complete film of the work directed by Nathan Kroll.
Wednesday, December 2 and Saturday, December 5 at 2:30pm
Martha Matinees: Punch and the Judy
Clips from Graham’s comedic Punch and the Judy (1941) starring Graham, Erick Hawkins, and Merce Cunningham alongside Annie-B Parson’s multidisciplinary work I used to love you. Parson’s work, inspired by and using elements of Graham’s Punch, premiered at the Joyce Theater in 2017.
Tuesday, December 8 at 7:00pm
Holiday Program: She Had a Sense of Humor
Humor throughout Graham’s career illustrated with photos and film clips of Sally Rand, Robin Williams, Danny Kaye, and Olivia the Pig. A rehearsal of Graham’s witty solo Satyric Festival Song will be streamed live from the Graham Studio. The program will close with a performance by the Company in Maple Leaf Rag, the last work that Graham choreographed.
Wednesday, January 6 and Saturday, January 9 at 2:30pm
Martha Matinees: Dark Meadow
Clips of Graham performing this exquisite work from 1946 alongside a performance of the current Company in Dark Meadow Suite, a recent arrangement featuring highlights of the work, particularly Graham’s unmatched choreography for the ensemble.
Tuesday, January 12 at 7:00pm
NEW@Graham: Canticle for Innocent Comedians
This event focuses on Graham’s ode to nature and the elements and the Company’s new reimagining of the work, and will include a sneak preview of newly created choreography for Wind by Sir Robert Cohan, alongside excerpts from a film of Yuriko and Bertram Ross in Moon and Helen McGehee and Robert Cohan in Stars. A recent performance of Lloyd Knight and Wendy Whelan in Moon will conclude the evening.
Wednesday, February 3 and Saturday, February 6 at 2:30pm
Martha Matinees: Echo
A film of today’s Graham Company in Echo, created for the Company in 2014 by Andonis Foniadakis, who took inspiration from both nature and Greek myth. The Graham dancers will join Artistic Director Janet Eilber in the live chat!