Drawing inspiration from Martha Graham's Cortege of Eagles, Baye & Asa focus on Charon, the ferryman who shepherds souls to the underworld.
Choreography: Baye & Asa
Music: Jack Grabow
Costumes: Caleb Krieg
Lighting: Yi-Chung Chen
We the People (2024)
M Sherwood2025-07-10T10:32:54-04:00Our new production of Agnes de Mille‘s iconic work of Americana.
Choreography by Jamar Roberts
Music by Rhiannon Giddens, Arrangedby Gabe Witcher
Costume Design by Karen Young
Lighting Design by Yi-Chung Chen
Immediate Tragedy (1937)
M Sherwood2025-07-10T10:54:08-04:00A dance of determination and, finally, resilience.
Choreography: Martha Graham reimagined by Janet Eilber
Costume: Martha Graham
Music: Christopher Rountree
Lighting: Yi-Chung Chen
Satyric Festival Song (1932)
M Sherwood2025-07-10T10:52:10-04:00An early, witty solo in which Graham mocks her own serious reputation.
Music: Fernando Palacios
Costumes: Martha Graham
Night Journey (1947)
M Sherwood2025-07-10T10:33:31-04:00One of Graham’s greatest masterworks. A chilling reinvention of the tragedy of Oedipus told through the eyes of his mother and wife, Jocasta.
Music: William Schumann
Set: Isamu Noguchi
Costumes: Martha Graham
Lamentation (1930)
M Sherwood2025-07-10T10:51:52-04:00Graham’s signature solo — the essence of grief itself.
Music: Zoltán Kodály
Sets: Martha Graham
Costume: Martha Graham
Errand into the Maze (1947)
M Sherwood2025-07-10T10:33:50-04:00Loosely derived from the myth of Theseus, who journeys into the labyrinth to confront the Minotaur, this duet sends a woman on the mission. The maze may be her own mind and the confrontation may be with her own fears.
Music: Gian Carlo Menotti
Set: Isamu Noguchi
Costumes: Martha Graham
Diversion of Angels (1948)
M Sherwood2025-07-10T10:51:38-04:00An ensemble work for the company and a joyous, lyrical, abstract essay on the infinite aspects of love.
Music: Norman Dello Joio
Costumes: Martha Graham
Deep Song (1937)
M Sherwood2025-07-10T10:52:50-04:00A deeply resonant response to the Spanish Civil War, a cry of anguish, this solo is an embodiment of Graham’s fears for a world torn apart by man’s inhumanity to man.
Music: Henry Cowell
Set: Martha Graham
Costume: Martha Graham
Chronicle (1936)
M Sherwood2025-07-10T10:33:12-04:00Graham’s stirring response to the rise of fascism in 1936 and to the unmatched power of the collective will.
Music: Wallingford Riegger
Set: Isamu Noguchi
Costumes: Martha Graham
Appalachian Spring (1944)
M Sherwood2025-07-10T10:32:37-04:00Graham’s beloved masterwork and “a testimony to the simple fineness of the human spirit.”
Score: Aaron Copland
Set: Isamu Noguchi
Costumes: Martha Graham