Dance Company
March 5, 2022 7:30PM
Location
Lensic Performing Arts Center
Name
Performance
Santa Fe and
The Santa Fe Symphony
Martha Graham Dance Company
Description
Performance Santa Fe and The Santa Fe Symphony proudly present
75th Anniversary of Appalachian Spring
The Martha Graham Dance Company has been recognized as a primal artistic force since 1926. Thirty years after Graham’s ashes were ceremoniously scattered at El Santuario de Chimayó, the company she built into the world’s finest example of modern dance makes its long-awaited return to Santa Fe. To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Aaron Copland’s most famous ballet Appalachian Spring, the dancers will be accompanied live by members of The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra playing the original 13-piece chamber orchestration. The program also includes Diversion of Angels (Dello Joio) – Immediate Tragedy (Rountree) -live piano -Scavengers (Andrea Miller) Soundscape piano and Appalachian Spring
Presented through the generosity of Linda Cohen, in loving memory of James Cohen