RADFest Midday Creative Exchange: A Tribute to Martha Graham Dance
Schedule
Sat Mar 07 2026 at 12:15 pm to 01:15 pm
UTC-05:00Location
359 S Kalamazoo Mall, Kalamazoo, MI 49007-4842, United States | Kalamazoo, MI
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Midday Creative Exchange: A Tribute to Martha Graham Dance Company’s 100th Anniversary in Movement, Music, and WordsMarch 7, 12:15-1:15 p.m.
This event is FREE | Registration is required
REGISTRATION & INFO: https://wellspringdance.org/rad-events
Dancing Martha: A Tribute to the Martha Graham Dance Company’s 100th Anniversary in Movement, Music, and Words is an informative and engaging lecture-demonstration presented by Crooked Tree Arts Center School of Ballet under the guest direction of former Martha Graham Dance Company Principal Dancer Peter Sparling. The program features two of Graham’s most iconic works, Lamentation (1930) and Appalachian Spring (1944), offering audiences a rare opportunity to experience these masterworks through performance, context, and conversation.
A true radical of her time, Martha Graham transformed American modern dance by inventing a powerful new movement language to express profound, timeless, and universal truths of the human condition. Through biographical insight, behind-the-scenes perspectives on Graham’s creative process, and the embodied act of “dancing Martha,” Sparling and the dancers illuminate Graham’s enduring legacy and continued relevance.
Credits
Project Director / Narrator: Peter Sparling
Artistic Director, Crooked Tree School of Ballet: Heather Raue
Dancers: Crooked Tree Arts Center School of Ballet with alumni guests Marie Millard and Benjamin Cheney
Registration is required. Duration 1 hour
This event is FREE.
LOCATION: Judy K. Jolliffe Theatre at The Epic Center downtown Kalamazoo, 359 S Kalamazoo Mall, Kalamazoo, MI 49007
COMPLETE FESTIVAL DETAILS & SCHEDULE: https://wellspringdance.org/rad-events
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