Juilliard Dance Division
Masterworks of the 20th Century
Peter Jay Sharp Theater, NYC / March 26-29, 2008
Anila Mazhari-Landry and Spencer Theberge as The Bride and Husbandman in Martha Graham’s Appalachian Spring. Photo by Rosalie O’Connor.
This spring, the Juilliard Dance Division celebrated its distinguished history with a program of three enduring works by choreographers associated with the academy: Antony Tudor and José Limón, both born exactly a century ago, and Martha Graham (born in 1894), who has always seemed eternal. Each piece concerns itself with what the New Yorker’s art critic, Peter Schjeldahl, recently termed “plausible human interests and desires.” Call this virtue passé at your peril.
The full article appeared in Voice of Dance (http://www.voiceofdance.org) on April 1, 2008. To read it, click here.
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