A charming work for nine dancers inspired by the innocence and playfulness.

Choreography: Pontus Lidberg
Music: Irvine Fine

A group work created by Pam Tanowitz using her signature style to manipulate phrases from some of Graham’s lesser-known works.

Music: Caroline Shaw

Choreographers Maxine Doyle and Bobbi Jene Smith collaborate on a work for all women based on the myth of Persephone.

Music: Lesley Flanigan

A stark, explosive response to the devastation and isolation that war leave in its wake. Performed separately or as the center section of Graham’s Chronicle.

Music: Wallingford Reigger
Costumes: Martha Graham

A solo created by Graham’s teacher, Ted Shawn, and a prime example of American dance in the early 20th Century – the sort of dance against which Graham rebelled.

Choreography: Ted Shawn, reconstructed by Martha Graham
Lighting: Thomas Skelton
Music: Mario Tarenghi
Costume: Martha Graham (after Pearl Wheeler)

A comedic look at the universal antics of humans trying to impress each other.

Music: Robert Starer
Set: Marion Kinsella
Costumes: Martha Graham

An early, witty solo in which Graham mocks her own serious reputation.

Music: Fernando Palacios
Costumes: Martha Graham

A rallying cry for social activism created for 33 students and often performed with the Company as part of Prelude and Revolt or Dance is a Weaponby students at the University where the Company is touring.

Music: Norman Lloyd
Costumes: Martha Graham

Short works for the company inspired by Graham’s iconic solo and created by some of today’s most note-worthy choreographers. A film of Graham is followed by three variations from among those by Aszure Barton, Larry Keigwin, Richard Move, Bulareyaung Pagarlava, and Doug Varone.

Music and Costumes: Various

Graham’s signature solo — the essence of grief itself.

Music: Zoltán Kodály
Sets: Martha Graham
Costume: Martha Graham

A woman struggles with choices of independence and empowerment while another tries to contain her.

Music: Paul Hindemith
Set: Isamu Noguchi
Costumes: Edythe Gilfond

Graham’s masterwork solo from 1935. A young woman facing the future.

Music: Louis Horst
Set: Isamu Noguchi
Costume: Martha Graham

A wry look at a woman’s illusions of grandeur as she imagines her life and loves through the lens of stardom.

Music: Paul Nordoff
Set: Philip Stapp
Costumes: Edythe Gilfond

Loosely 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

With a modernist style evoking primitive or naïve art come to life, this dramatization is based on the rituals of the American Southwest. We see a troupe of strolling players enact vignettes from the Bible.

Music: Louis Horst
Set: Isamu Noguchi

A reimagining of a sculptural Graham solo from 1933 brought back to the stage by Virginie Mécène.

Music: Ramon Humet
Costume: Martha Graham

An ensemble work for the company and a joyous, lyrical, abstract essay on the infinite aspects of love.

Music: Norman Dello Joio
Costumes: Martha Graham

A 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

A noted arrangement of highlights from the original featuring the renowned choreography for the ensemble of men and women.

An atmospheric look at the Sorceress and her band of bewitched animals as they try to seduce Odysseus.

Music: Alan Hovaness
Set: Isamu Noguchi
Costumes: Martha Graham

Graham’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

A shattering study of the destructive power of love inspired by the story of Medea.

Score: Samuel Barber
Set: Isamu Noguchi
Costumes: Martha Graham

Excerpts of Appalachian Spring with spoken introductions from the letters of Graham and Copland.

Graham’s beloved masterwork and “a testimony to the simple fineness of the human spirit.”

Score: Aaron Copland
Set: Isamu Noguchi
Costumes: Martha Graham