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NEW@Graham
Movement Sentence Choir
September 28 + 29, 2026 at 6pm
NEW@Graham: Movement Sentence Choir or How to Choreograph a Dance in a Matter of Minutes
This Studio Series offers an inside look at the Company’s recent world premiere On Freedom.
Designed to celebrate the Company’s 100th anniversary and the country’s 250th, On Freedom was created using a remarkable process created by the 92NY Dance Education Laboratory (DEL) – the Movement Sentence Choir. The process is an inclusive approach to dance-making that brings movers of all ages, genres, and abilities together to make a dance in a matter of minutes.
Led by choreographers Larry Keigwin and Taryn Vander Hoop, a DEL facilitator, and composer Joel Weinhardt, the cast of On Freedom, will showcase highlights of the creative process. The evening will conclude with a performance of the entire seven-minute work, which might evolve in the course of the evening!
Audience members are invited to arrive 30 minutes before the show to join Pre-Show Games. A DEL facilitator will lead everyone through a mini-Movement Sentence Choir process.
November 2 + 4, 2026 at 6:30pm
GrahamDeconstructed: Lamentation Variations with Lar Lubovitch
An evening in conversation with renowned choreographer Lar Lubovitch who will reveal his approach to creating a Lamentation Variation.
In 2007, the Company invited three young choreographers to create short dances for the Company inspired by a film of Martha Graham dancing her iconic solo, Lamentation. Intended for a one-night-only performance, the choreographers were given a specific set of rules to follow as they created their variation. The end results were so moving and significant that Lamentation Variations became an ongoing project. Within the next decade, 15 variations came into being from a widely diverse group of artists.
As the 20th anniversary of Lamentation Variations approaches, the Company has commissioned four new variations from choreographers Pam Tanowitz, Shawn Ahern, visual artist Rashid Johnson with Claudia Schreier, and Lar Lubovitch. Artistic Director Janet Eilber and Lubovitch will discuss his choreographic process and the challenges of taking inspiration from the past. The Company will perform his work in progress as well as one or two of the earliest variations created.
Audience members are invited to arrive at 6pm to join the Pre-Show Games, learn some of the original gestures from Lamentation and perhaps invent a few of their own.
December 2, 2026 at 6:30pm
From Denishawn to Marilyn Monroe: Jack Cole Revealed!
A Conversation and Book Signing with Author Debra Levine, with Dancing by the New Jack Cole Dancers
A celebration of the new biography Jazzed: Jack Cole and Twentieth-Century American Dance. The evening will feature a conversation with author Debra Levine, joined by Janet Eilber, Artistic Director of the Martha Graham Company, and Norton Owen, Jacob’s Pillow Historian and Founding Director of Preservation. The New Jack Cole Dancers led by Artistic Director, Cam Loeser, will demonstrate Cole’s distinctive dance vocabulary.
JAZZED is an illuminating and long-awaited biography of one of the essential, but somewhat forgotten, geniuses of American dance, choreographer Jack Cole. In mid-20th Century, Cole’s ground-breaking, sensual physicality fused Denishawn style with jazz and ballet and exploded on screen in films such as Gilda and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Cole was an unmistakable influence on such greats as Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins and Alvin Ailey, and this biography finally gives the game-changing artist his long-overdue due.
December 11 & 12, 2026
Graham 2 Holiday Show
A Special Celebration Honoring Virginie Mécène
Friday, December 11 | 6:30 PM
Saturday, December 12 | 2 PM & 6:30 PM
This year’s holiday performance is especially meaningful as we honor Virginie Mécène and her 19 years of extraordinary leadership of Graham 2. Join us for a festive celebration recognizing her remarkable contributions to the next generation of Graham artists and her enduring dedication to preserving and advancing Martha Graham’s vision. We are also delighted to welcome Buglisi Dance Theatre as special guests for this celebratory performance.
Appalachian Spring Suite
Special Guests:
Sospiri by Buglisi Dance Theatre
Join us as we celebrate the holidays, the artistry of Graham 2, and Virginie Mécène’s extraordinary legacy of mentorship, creativity, and leadership.
January 14th, 2027 at 6:30pm
NEW@Graham: Lamentation Variations with Rashid Johnson
Celebrated visual artist and filmmaker Rashid Johnson steps into the Graham studio. Known for work spanning painting, sculpture, installation, film, and performance, Johnson has joined forces with choreographer Claudia Schreier to create a new Lamentation Variation.
Join us for a first look at the collaboration and a conversation about what happens when a visual artist takes on Graham’s legacy.
February 18, 2027 at 6:30pm
Person Place Thing Podcast with Randy Cohen, Janet Eilber and Special Guest!
One person. One place. One thing. On Person Place Thing, host Randy Cohen invites his guests to talk not about themselves, but about three things they care about. The result is surprising, funny, revealing stories from great talkers.
The acclaimed interview show, distributed by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, comes to the Graham studio with Artistic Director Janet Eilber and a special guest. Expect an evening of conversation about the people, places, and things that shaped their lives in dance, followed by audience Q&A.
March 29 & 30, 2027 at 6:30pm
Graham Deconstructed: Acrobats of God (1960)
After 50 years away from the stage, Acrobats of God is back! Graham’s witty 1960 tribute to the dancer’s life, with its studio struggles, discipline, and moments of joy, features music by Carlos Surinach and designs by Isamu Noguchi. It shows Graham at her most playful.
The reconstruction also marks a bold artistic choice: Graham’s own leading role will be shared by Xin Ying and Lloyd Knight. Casting a male dancer in a part Graham made for herself opens fresh perspectives on gender, tradition, and the living repertory. Join our Company dancers and Artistic Director, Janet Eilber walk through key sections and show how a work is rebuilt from the archive into the studio, so you see it with new eyes.