2 BROOKLYN ACAOEMY OF MUSIC OCTOBER 1970 BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC I OCTOBER 1970 I 3 Brooklyn Festival of Dance 1970-71 The Brooklyn Academy of Music in cooperation with The Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc. presents the Martha Graham Dance Company By arrangement with H aro ld Shaw Bertram R oss Helen McGehee Mary Hinkson Matt Turney Richard Gain R obert Powell Richard Kuch Patricia Birch Takako A sakawa Phyllis Gutelfus Moss Cohen Diane Gray Judith Hogan Judith Leifer Yuriko Kimura Dawn Suzuki David Hatch Walker Lar Roberson and GUEST ARTLSTS Jane Dudley Jean Erdman Pearl Lang C onducto r : Eugene Lester Associate C onductor: Stanl ey Sussman Settings: l amu Noguchi , Arch Lauterer, Philip Stapp Lighting: Jean Ro entha l and William H. Batchelder Rehearsal Directo r : Patricia Birch C ompany Co-Director: Bertram Ross Production Ma nager : Willia m H. Batchelder Costume Supervision : Ursul a Reed Produced by LeRoy Leatherman The per for m a m:e~ o f the M artha Graham Dance Company at the Brooklyn Academy or Mu~ic are made p os~io l e by g r a nt ~ fro m the ation at Endowment l or the A rt , the Lila Acheson Wallace f-und, The Ford F oundation, the ew York State Council on the A rts and individual donor~ . Baldwin is the official piano o f the B rooklyn Academy o f 1\ t usic. The un a uth o ri .~:e d use of cam er a or recording equipment is ~trict l y prohibited duri ng perform.mce~ . 4 I BROOKLYN A CAG E MY OF M USIC I OCTOBER 1970 Brookly n Ac ad e m v of M u sic The ~ The Uroo/,ftn , fcac/e/11\' of .\lrl\ic i1 a deturtllll'llf of the !Jrookl.rn ln.ltifllfe of ArtJ and Sciences . Jhookh n \nulem} of Mu:-.it· . \ d minil'tr·ativc Staff :vlana~ ;· mt• nt Com pan), l nt·. Harvey LichtenMein, Director LC\\ is L. Lloyd, General Manager Board of Dn ector~: Charles H a mmock, Asst. General Manager ~cth <,. I <II"On. 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She pr ~­ c., he c.,;u d 1n 1~no mlercd f~ t ·erv S o ul I s a Circ us in 191 Y, thereby inspiring Walter T erry to write in ·r hough a choreographe1, her a rti '> tic The N e ll' Y o r/.. //(• raid Trihune: " Martha VI'> IOn I'> not l11nit ed to human movement (iraham turned out to be the Beatrice Lillie o n '> lage, '> he c.,ee'> dance a'> a total theater of the dance and <, he\ been hiding it from event. She '>ee b to integrate '>O und, li ght , co'>t ume, deco1 and sets, oft en d e'> igning the lighting, costume'> and '>el'> hel '>e lf. In th1 ., <.,he ha., collabou1ted with thi., <.:e nllu y\ great al ll'> t'> -Nogucht and (ald er for '>e t'>, Jean Ro.,enthal for light ing, blythe CJilford f01 CO'>lll 111 t.:'>, Aaron Copl a nd and Louis IIOI'> t for m U'>lC ll '> ing the i1 ind ividual blll­ liance to le<diJ: t.: her Idea'>. A fter <.,et.: mg 1~1 Penitente in 1940, ~ t ar !... Young comment ed 1n the Nell' R epuhlic: "M i'>'> ( Jr aham 111 my op1nio n i., the mo'> t import ant lt.:S'>O n for o u1 theat1 e that we now have .. In the th1 ee p<.: I'>O ns o f tht.: Penll ente pl ay the1e I'> such a '>O und 1n g out of v1olent ec.,ta'>y, cr udc a nd orgla'>tic, mu ... i­ cal a nd dark, a'> i'> not to be fo und ebc­ wh<.:re 111 ou1 theatr<.:" l:) Penrtc• nte i'> a mo ng t h<.: f 1ve full -length da nce-drama\-each recognized a'> a monu­ mental achi evement-created by M i'>'> (J ra ham between 1919 and 1941. It wa.., :1 !> J Jt(,r r roo l.eller to th<• W o rld A ppalochian Sprin~: UA kUA HA MOH C,AN U'> all the\e year<;.