Arlo Guthrie is the oldest son of folk-music legend Woody Guthrie and Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, a dancer in the Martha Graham Company.

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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!

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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.

NPR: Martha Graham Dancers Return to the Stage

Co-artistic director Therese Capucilli has been with the Martha Graham Dance Company more than 30 years.

NPR: Martha Graham Dancers Return to the Stage

Tuesday night at New York's Joyce Theater, the Martha Graham Dance Company begins its first official season in almost three years.

NPR: Martha Graham Dancers Return to the Stage

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.

NPR: Martha Graham Dancers Return to the Stage

Kathrine Crockett, one of the company's soloists, started studying at the Martha Graham School in the 1980s, when she was 18.

NPR: Martha Graham Dancers Return to the Stage