Anne Souder (front) with Martha Graham Dance Company in Appalachian Spring; photo by Melissa Sherwood.
Spring Festival of Dance
Produced by Patricia Seto-Weiss
May 1, 8PM | Program A
featuring the
MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY
Lindemann Performing Arts Center
144 Angell Street
Providence RI 02906
We are excited to host the Martha Graham Dance Company, currently celebrating their centenary, in Program A (May 1 at 8pm). The company will present Martha Graham’s iconic Appalachian Spring, a work of optimism and determination conceived during the darkest days of World War II. The score, by Aaron Copland, will be performed by musicians from the Brown University Orchestra under the direction of Mark Seto. The evening will conclude with Jamar Roberts’s We the People to music by Rhiannon Giddens.
All performances will include Lamentation Variations, an evocative work inspired by Martha Graham’s iconic 1930 solo, Lamentation. This ongoing variations project, originally created in remembrance of 9/11, continues to explore grief, resilience, and expression through movement. Brown University students will present three new variations, created under the project’s signature creative conditions, choreographed by Laila Franklin, Heidi Henderson, and Patricia Seto-Weiss.
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