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es. It has created a series of intimate in-studio events, forged unusual
creative partnerships with the likes of SITI Company, Performa, the New
Museum, Barney’s, and Siracusa’s Greek Theater Festival (to name a few);
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Tube, and Cennarium; and created a model for reaching new audiences
through social media. The astonishing list of artists who have created
works for the Graham dancers in the last decade reads like a catalog of
must-see choreographers:
Kyle Abraham, Aszure Barton, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Lucinda Childs, Marie
Chouinard, Michelle Dorrance, Nacho Duato, Mats Ek, Andonis Foniadakis,
Liz Gerring, Larry Keigwin, Michael Kliën, Pontus Lidberg, Lil Buck, Lar
Lubovitch, Josie Moseley, Richard Move, Bulareyaung Pagarlava, Annie-B
Parson, Yvonne Rainer, Sonya Tayeh, Doug Varone, Luca Vegetti, Gwen
Welliver and Robert Wilson.
The current company dancers hail from around the world and, while
grounded in their Graham core training, can also slip into the style of
contemporary choreographers like a second skin, bringing technical brilliance
and artistic nuance to all they do -- from brand new works to Graham
classics and those from early pioneers such as Isadora Duncan, Jane
Dudley, Anna Sokolow, and Mary Wigman. “Some of the most skilled and
powerful dancers you can ever hope to see,” according to the Washington
Post last year. “One of the great companies of the world,” says The
New York Times, while Los Angeles Times notes, “They seem able to do
anything, and to make it look easy as well as poetic.”
BIOGRAPHIES
JANET EILBER (Artistic Director) has been the Company’s artistic director
since 2005. Her direction has focused on creating new forms of audience
access to Martha Graham’s masterworks. These initiatives include contextual
programming, educational and community partnerships, use of
new media, commissions from today’s top choreographers and creative
events such as the Lamentation Variations. Earlier in her career, as a principal
dancer with the Company, Ms. Eilber worked closely with Martha
Graham. She danced many of Graham’s greatest roles, had roles created
for her by Graham, and was directed by Graham in most of the major
roles of the repertory. She soloed at the White House, was partnered by
Rudolf Nureyev, starred in three segments of Dance in America, and has
since taught, lectured, and directed Graham ballets internationally. Apart
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sion, and on Broadway directed by such greats as Agnes deMille and Bob
Fosse and has received four Lester Horton Awards for her reconstruction
and performance of seminal American modern dance. She has served as
Director of Arts Education for the Dana Foundation, guiding the Foundation’s
support for Teaching Artist training and contributing regularly to its
arts education publications. Ms. Eilber is a Trustee Emeritus of the Interlochen
Center for the Arts. She is married to screenwriter/director John
Warren, with whom she has two daughters, Madeline and Eva.
DENISE VALE (Senior Artistic Associate) joined the Martha Graham Dance
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