Martha Graham Dance Company: Dances of the Mind

The Martha Graham company keeps the modern dance master's legacy alive at the Joyce with a set of programs that juxtapose classic Graham pieces with works by modern choreographers. The run is divided into three major programs plus two one-offs. The Gala Opening on April 1 includes Graham's Clytemnestra Act II (1958) and the world premiere of Baye & Asa’s Cortege. Those two pieces are also in Program A (Apr 2, 4, 10, 12) along with Hofesh Shechter’s Cave (2022) and the world premiere of Xin Ying's Letter to Nobody, which she created in collaboration with Mimi Yin. Program B (Apr 3, 6, 9, 13) features two Graham masterworks of Americana, Frontier (1935) and Rodeo (1942) as well as Jamar Roberts's We the People (2024) and Virginie Mécène's reconstructions of a pair of early Graham solos, Revolt (1927) and Immigrant (1928). Cave and Cortege recur in Program C (Apr 5, 6, 8, 11, 13) in tandem with Graham's Brontë-sisters ballet Deaths and Entrances (1943) and her Greek-myth duet Errand into the Maze (1947). The family matinee on April 12 comprises Rodeo, We the People and a performance of Graham's Panorama (1935) by teenage dancers from this year's All-City Panorama Project.