Dance Legends: Little Traverse Bay Celebrates Graham100
Schedule
Fri, 29 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Great Lakes Center for the Arts | Petoskey, MI
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This event is part of a global celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Martha Graham Dance Company, the country’s oldest dance company. This specific performance features dancers Taylor Naturkas, Principal dancer with Miami City Ballet and Sam Epstein, dancer with Grand Rapids Ballet.
The program honors Graham’s pioneering legacy with stagings of two of her most renowned dance works, “Appalachian Spring” (1944), and “Lamentation” (1930). Project Director Peter Sparling, former Graham principal dancer, also reimagines Graham's 1938 dance/theater piece, “American Document” as a community collaboration that explores local and personal histories gleaned from testimonials of a cross-section of members of the local population. “Our Own American Document” boldly fuses dance, music and the spoken word as it asks what it means to be an American living in a democracy in the Little Traverse Bay area.
Photo courtesy of Fran Dwight
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Where is it happening?
Great Lakes Center for the Arts, 800 Bay Harbor Drive,Petoskey, Michigan, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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