Co-artistic director Therese Capucilli has been with the Martha Graham Dance Company more than 30 years.
This season, Crockett will perform in Appalachian Spring, Martha Graham's legendary collaboration with composer Aaron Copland.
When Martha Graham died in 1991 at the age of 96, she left a body of work that defined modern dance.
Tuesday night at New York's Joyce Theater, the Martha Graham Dance Company begins its first official season in almost three years.
Kathrine Crockett, one of the company's soloists, started studying at the Martha Graham School in the 1980s, when she was 18.
Arlo Guthrie is the oldest son of folk-music legend Woody Guthrie and Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, a dancer in the Martha Graham Company.
Ronald Protas, Graham's legal heir and the plaintiff in the case, battled the Martha Graham Dance Company and its dancers in court, arguing that he owned the copyrights to Graham's choreography.
After a long legal battle over the rights to the late Martha Graham's dances, the company she founded won the rights to the majority of her choreography and will showcase a spectrum of her work, spanning eight decades of modern dance.
Today it is home to several major companies, including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, the Paul Taylor Dance Company, the Eifman Ballet of Saint Petersburg, the Martha Graham Dance Company, and the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, as well as the Encores!
Long before there was a downtown dance scene, Buttenwieser Hall was a home to choreographers like Martha Graham, who began teaching there in 1935, while Kaufman was a proving ground for major companies like Alvin Ailey, which unveiled its ground-breaking work "Revelations" there in 1960.
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By the age of 14, he was studying Chinese opera movement and paying for his first ballet lessons with money earned by writing. (He later published two novels.) The turning point came when Lin studied with modern dance pioneers Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham - influences that could be detected flitting through his early work with Cloud Gate.
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