Sunday, April 10, 2022

Graham!

First time back in a theater in a very long time (well, not that long, but this was City Center), but when I heard that our school's orchestra was accompanying the Martha Graham Dance Company in "Appalachian Spring," which I've never had the chance to see live, I jumped at it. 

The piece, the company director told us in welcome, was composed in wartime, in 1944, to highlight American values and spirit, and it was hard not to think we may find ourselves in a similar moment of civilizational struggle now - though a story of a frontier housewarming wouldn't unite as, perhaps, it did then. The frontier's closed and, we realize belatedly and fitfully, traversed stolen land. What would?