Martha Graham’s (1894-1991) remarkable career as a dancer and choreographer spanned more than 70 years. During her lifetime, she saw contemporary dance evolve from a new art form to a…
Read More…performances herself for the Martha Graham Dance Company and the Neighborhood Playhouse, Graham was equally at home collaborating with artists, fashion designers, and composers. A true visionary, Martha Graham is…
Read MoreOn June 18, 2015, Village Preservation unveiled a plaque in collaboration with The New School, honoring the legacy of Modern dance pioneer Martha Graham. The plaque was placed at 66…
Read Morephoto source: www.loc.gov Modern dance pioneer Martha Graham was born on this day, May 11, in 1894. In the 1930’s, Martha Graham’s dance studio was located at 66 5th Avenue….
Read MorePortrait of American dancer and choreographer Martha Graham (1894 – 1991) as she sits beside a drum, circa 1960s. (Photo by George Leavens/Photo Researchers History/Getty Images) Focus on your breath….
Read More19 MONUMENTAL POSES: Workshop with Martha Graham Company Friday, October 14th, 2022 Village Preservation and the Martha Graham Dance Company present 19 Monumental Poses, a collaboration as a part of…
Read More…Village Preservation. https://soundcloud.com/villagepreservation/bob-dylan-village-voices-audio?si=94fc88460fd44bc183c1263fcc81c33a&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Martha Graham Martha Graham’s remarkable career as a dancer and choreographer spanned more than 70 years, from 1894 to 1991. She was a pioneer and a visionary,…
Read More…in The Villager. Martha Graham in Dark Meadow – Library of Congress, Music Division The Martha Graham Dance Company, founded in 1926, is known for being the oldest American dance…
Read MoreHonoring a Major Artist and Villager: Martha Graham Plaque Installation The revolutionary artistic vision of dancer and choreographer Martha Graham (1894-1991) largely created the modern dance we know today. Graham,…
Read MoreWe have some exciting new additions to our October program calendar to share with you: 19 Monumental Poses A Collaboration with Martha Graham Dance part of Village Voices 2022 Friday,…
Read MoreAn Rong Xu for The New York Times Martha Graham May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991 Modern Dancer, and Choreographer A revolutionary artist who transformed modern dance, Graham created…
Read More…of dancer and choreographer Martha Graham (1894-1991) largely created the modern dance we know today. Graham, an essential part of the early- to mid-century Village arts scene, will be honored…
Read More…of Martha Graham in 1983 under the name of Martha Graham Ensemble. Graham 2 is a pre-professional dance company drawn from the most advanced students of the Martha Graham School….
Read More…been like a hundred and fifty years ago with the river dotted with sailboats.” Martha Graham Martha Graham (left), Merce Cunningham (right) Cunningham began his professional career as a soloist…
Read More…Plaque at 112 Waverly Place Martha Graham Martha Graham Called “the Picasso of dance” and “a prime revolutionary in the arts of this century and the American dancer and choreographer…
Read More…audience involved in the great aspects of American dance. Of notable involvement and leadership in the Dance Congress were Martha Graham, the founder of the Martha Graham studio at 64-66…
Read More…of the IWO’s highly regarded dance troupes was the Russian Radischev Dancers. 64-66 Fifth Avenue 64-66 Fifth Avenue, 2020. Martha Graham has been called “the Picasso of dance” and “a…
Read More…fellow New School professors, choreographer and dancer Martha Graham, and visual artist Isamu Noguchi. Appalachian Spring was composed in 1944 for the Martha Graham Dance Company, whose first dance studio…
Read More…of the three most influential American dance makers of the 20th century, alongside George Balanchine and Martha Graham—choreographers whose work he both amplified and rejected. Merce Cunningham dancing with Martha…
Read More…with a plaque on May 10, 2022. (Check out photos and video of the plaque unveiling ceremony here.) Martha Graham The attraction that our neighborhoods has exerted on generations of…
Read More…radical innovator of dance, Martha Graham, performing as “The Chosen One.” That production soon thereafter moved to New York, where it reportedly received a much more positive reception than the…
Read More…choreographer whose name became synonymous with modern dance” by the New York Times, the great American modern dance innovator Martha Graham had her first dance studio at 66 Fifth Avenue…
Read More…Graham. Martha Graham was also a client of Weiner. Martha Graham performing in Letters to the World in 1941, by Barbara Morgan. The Dancer (Pin) by Ed Weiner, 1947 After a summer…
Read More…(l. to r., top to bottom) Graham, Hagen, Hansberry, Harry, Holliday, Holladay, Howe. To vote for your top ten picks, click here. Martha Graham — The “Picasso of Dance,” she…
Read More…top to bottom) Graham, Hagen, Hansberry, Harry, Holliday, Holladay, Howe. To vote for your top ten picks, click here. Martha Graham — The “Picasso of Dance,” she revolutionized and profoundly…
Read More…top to bottom) Graham, Hagen, Hansberry, Harry, Holliday, Holladay, Howe. To vote for your top 10 picks, click here. Martha Graham — The “Picasso of Dance,” she revolutionized and profoundly…
Read More…of Erik Hawkins and Martha Graham, who both had studios in the neighborhood south of Union Square. Lewis founded her company in 1968. Protect the Neighborhood South of Union Square…
Read MoreThe inspirational and unforgettable Anna Sokolow (February 9, 1910 – March 29, 2000) danced with the Martha Graham Dance Company at 64-66 Fifth Avenue between 1930 and 1939 before going…
Read More…Cunningham John W. Draper Bob Dylan Martha Graham Lorraine Hansberry Billie Holiday Edward Hopper Jane Jacobs Larry Kramer Helen Levitt Edna St. Vincent Millay Joan Mitchell Joe Papp Charlie Parker…
Read More…of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for decades, working closely with Ailey to develop the company’s voice and legacy. Dudley Williams Williams began his career with the Martha Graham…
Read More…after it shuttered, they joined the Impromptu Theater. Taylor also studied for a time under dancer and choreographer Martha Graham (another prominent Villager!). Sydney Taylor performed “Heretic” as a dancer…
Read More…after it shuttered, they joined the Impromptu Theater. Taylor also studied for a time under dancer and choreographer Martha Graham (another prominent Villager!). Sydney Taylor performed “Heretic” as a dancer…
Read More…1928 Presidential election by Herbert Hoover. 66 Fifth Avenue The modern dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, whose “Graham Technique” reshaped dance and is still taught worldwide, maintained her dance studio…
Read More…company for more than four decades, performing into his 60s. Mr. Williams was dancing with the Martha Graham Dance Company when he was recruited by the choreographer Alvin Ailey as…
Read More…the most prominent artists based in our neighborhoods. These included choreographers Erick Hawkins and Merce Cunningham, musician John Cage, and especially Martha Graham, with whom he forged a strong, decades-long…
Read More…Hawkins and Merce Cunningham, musician John Cage, and especially Martha Graham, with whom he forged a strong, decades-long working relationship that resulted in over twenty productions. He was quoted as…
Read More…with Two Boots, celebrated Greenwich Village notables James Baldwin and Martha Graham. Baldwin was born in Harlem but lived in the Village in the late 1950’s and early 1960s, and…
Read More…great influence exerted in his artistic development by choreographer (and one-time Graham dancer and Martha Graham husband) Erick Hawkins, who insisted on Brancusi-like simplification in his masks. Photo: Stanley Wlodyka…
Read More…want to live. “A Monument to Choice” stood in Gansevoort Plaza. On October 14, 2022, we collaborated with the Martha Graham Dance Company to present a demonstration and workshop on…
Read More…dance studio of Martha Graham. In June, after a year-and-a-half campaign, GVSHP succeeded in getting the Stonewall Inn landmarked, the first site to ever be landmarked in New York City based upon…
Read More…was a marijuana dealer, an East Village eccentric, and a cannibal. In 1989, Rakowitz killed his roommate and girlfriend, Monika Beerle, a Swiss student at the Martha Graham Center of…
Read More…popularly as a “loft conversion.” Merce Cunningham with Carolyn Brown at Westbeth, 1972. Photo by Wendy Perron. Notable residents of Westbeth included journalist Bettye Lane, photographer Diane Arbus, the Martha Graham…
Read More…dancer and then a trainer with the Martha Graham company and who trained the likes of Merce Cunningham and Erick Hawkins. Nora Guthrie speaking to GVSHP, with a photo of…
Read More…their life’s work worth millions of dollars when the basement storage units were flooded. The Martha Graham Dance Company alone lost $4 million worth of costumes, sets, and other supplies….
Read More…variety revue that featured songs like “I’m the Hostess of a Bum Cabaret!” and “Why Be an Industrial Slave When You Can Be Crazy?” Martha Graham was a dancer and…
Read More…arts that have defined Greenwich Village, and more specifically the Westbeth Center for the Arts, which was also home to dancer/choreographer Martha Graham. Merce Cunningham with Carolyn Brown at Westbeth,…
Read More…cultural significance. With the support of Rev. Guthrie, Martha Graham and Ruth St. Denis danced in the Sanctuary. Under the next two rectors, Rev. Richard E. McEvoy and Rev. Michael…
Read More…the Martha Graham School. New nightclubs opened in the area in the 1970s, many for the LGBTQ folks who frequented the Christopher Street and Chelsea Piers. And in the 1980s, sex clubs…
Read More…housing and workspace for hundreds of artists, as well as space for arts and cultural organizations, including the Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham Dance Studios, a theater for the New…
Read More…proud to honor and highlight this remarkable history. Past plaques have marked the former homes of James Baldwin, Elizabeth Blackwell, Lorraine Hansberry, Frank O’Hara, Martha Graham, The Fillmore East, the San…
Read More…organizations, including the Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham Dance Studios, a theater for the New School, an art gallery, and even space for Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, the world’s largest…
Read More…Holiday, Benny Goodman, Martha Graham – three great artists whose careers were launched in this area. While most construction in New York is on pause right now, this area has…
Read More…such units are alike, while the hallways feature Meier’s unique wave-like ceilings. The repurposed complex opened in 1970. Since then it has housed both Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham’s studios,…
Read More…very first revolutionary wrtitings. Where the first woman doctor in America lived, practiced, and helped establish the American Red Cross. Where Martha Graham changed the face of dance. Where the Loyal National League fought to…
Read More…Martha Graham, Frank Lloyd Wright, Aaron Copland, and W. H. Auden. But one of the school’s most important legacies is its introduction to the world of the very first African-American…
Read More…and educator Selma Hortense Burke, the leading Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning, and the “Picasso of Dance” Martha Graham. Click through, also, to learn about the many other ways Grove Press, and the neighborhood’s “Tenth…
Read More…19 Monumental Poses, with the Martha Graham Dance Company at A Monument to Choice. Scan the QR code or click above to get the full VILLAGE VOICES experience from your…
Read More…Elizabeth Blackwell, Margaret Wise Brown, E. E. Cummings, John W. Draper, Bob Dylan, Martha Graham, Lorraine Hansberry, Larry Kramer, Joan Mitchell, Charlie “Bird” Parker, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Oliver Sacks,…
Read More…Itallie with LaMama’s Ellen Stewart After graduating from Harvard in 1958, he moved to New York City and studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse (where, incidentally, Martha Graham was an…
Read More…to learn more about all our historic plaques, marking sites that housed great figures including James Baldwin, Jane Jacobs, Lorraine Hansberry, Martha Graham, LeRoi and Hettie Jones, and many more….
Read More…Striker”, 1934. Art Institute of Chicago. Paul R. Meltsner, “Martha Graham”, 1938. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Paul R. Meltsner, 1931-1933: Meltsner (December 29, 1905 – 1966) was a Social…
Read More…in the arena for equality and advancement. Some were very prominent figures like W.E.B. DuBois, Jackson Pollock, Billie Holliday, and Martha Graham. Others, however, made a mark in fields traditionally…
Read More…the last century, and one that is significant to many in the dance field in New York City. It began by the reverend inviting dance artists like Martha Graham and…
Read More…Jane Jacobs; Lorraine Hansberry to LeRoi Jones; Anais Nin to Alex Haley; Frank Stella to Frank O’Hara; painter Jean-Michel Basquiat to “Picasso of Dance” Martha Graham; and many more. CLICK…
Read More…our plaques have honored figures from James Baldwin to Jane Jacobs; Lorraine Hansberry to LeRoi Jones; Anaïs Nin to Alex Haley; painter Jean-Michel Basquiat to “Picasso of Dance” Martha Graham…
Read MorePlease join Village Preservation and The New School at 6 pm next Tuesday, May 10, for the unveiling of our 20th plaque at 70 Fifth Avenue, the former headquarters of…
Read More…honored figures from James Baldwin to Jane Jacobs; Lorraine Hansberry to LeRoi Jones; Anaïs Nin to Alex Haley; painter Jean-Michel Basquiat to “Picasso of Dance” Martha Graham (next door to…
Read More…Draper, Martha Graham, Lorraine Hansberry, Edward Hopper, Helen Levitt, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Joan Mitchell, Joe Papp, Charlie “Bird” Parker, Jackson Pollock, Leontyne Price, Robert Rauschenberg, Maurice Sendak, Patti Smith,…
Read More…former homes of Jane Jacobs, James Baldwin, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lorraine Hansberry, Frank Stella, Martha Graham, Frank O’Hara, and Elizabeth Blackwell; the headquarters of the NAACP and The Crisis Magazine; Julius’…
Read More…Fifth Avenue Playhouse starting in the 1920s, and Martha Graham’s first dance studio in the 1930s (which we honored with a historic plaque in 2015). Read more about that history…
Read More…figures from Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Alex Haley; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry. Register today to secure…
Read More…renowned modern dance masters such as Martha Graham, Charles Weidman, Ismay Andrews, and Asadata Dafora. She was quickly noticed by dance critics for her remarkable energy and superb physicality, which…
Read More…Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Alex Haley; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry, and many more. Explore all our historic plaques — CLICK HERE…
Read More…to James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Alex Haley; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry, and many more. Explore all our historic plaques HERE…
Read More…Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry. Register today to secure your spot!…
Read More…Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry. Register today to secure your spot! Click here to register…
Read More…the homes of local figures from Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry….
Read More…and marked the homes of local figures from Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to…
Read More…to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry, as well as historically significant sites such as the former NAACP headquarters, the Fillmore East, and…
Read More…dancer Martha Graham, as well as a vast array of publishers, civil rights organizations, and social justice groups, and the country’s first art film house. For more information on the…
Read More…Martha Graham. (r.) 68 Fifth Avenue is a Greek Revival rowhouse constructed c. 1838-40 by John H. Cornell, believed to be a high-ranking officer at the Mechanics Banking Association on…
Read More…Martha Graham. (r.) 68 Fifth Avenue is a Greek Revival row house constructed c. 1838-40 by John H. Cornell, believed to be a high-ranking officer at the Mechanics Banking Association…
Read More…the first studio of “Picasso of Dance” Martha Graham. 808 Broadway This striking six-story loft building, which runs the entire block from Broadway to Fourth Avenue north of Grace Church,…
Read More…Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry, as well as historically significant sites such as the former…
Read More…and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry; as well as historically significant sites such as the former NAACP…
Read More…figures from Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry, as well as historically…
Read More…and marked the homes of local figures from Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to…
Read More…to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry, as well as historically significant sites such as the former NAACP headquarters, the Fillmore East, and…
Read More…and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry, as well as historically significant sites such as the former NAACP headquarters, the Fillmore East, and Julius’ Bar. CLICK HERE for more info +…
Read More…Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry; as well as historically significant sites such as the former NAACP headquarters, the Fillmore East, and Julius’ Bar. For…
Read More…James Baldwin; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry, as well as historically significant sites such as the former NAACP headquarters,…
Read More…program has honored and marked the homes of local figures from Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to…
Read More…the its opening in 1970. Westbeth has served as a home for a myriad of artistic and cultural institutions, including Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham’s dance companies, the New School…
Read More…and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry, as well as historically significant sites such as the former NAACP headquarters, the Fillmore East, and Julius’ Bar. You can learn more about our…
Read More…them and all our other programs here. Historic Plaques: Many of our historic markers commemorate transformative local women, including Jane Jacobs, Lorraine Hansberry, Frances Perkins, Elizabeth Blackwell, Martha Graham, Anaïs…
Read More…Holiday, Audre Lorde, Patti Smith, Martha Graham, and many other pioneering creative women. The neighborhood’s diverse array of buildings also contained dozens, if not hundreds, of artists’ studios from the…
Read More…to Charles Mingus; Frances Perkins to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry, as well as historically significant sites such as the former NAACP headquarters, the Fillmore East, and…
Read More…Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frances Perkins to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry, as well as historically significant sites such as the…
Read More…woman doctor in America, and sites connected to Anaïs Nin, Audre Lorde, Patti Smith, Martha Graham, and early birth-control efforts, among many others. Village Preservation’s South of Union Square Map…
Read More…church also has a long history of supporting innovation in the arts. In the 1930s, modern dance icons Ruth St. Denis and Martha Graham performed in the space. In addition…
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