Saturday, January 17, 2026 7:30 PM
Sunday, January 18, 2026 2:00 PM
Power Center
Martha Graham Dance Company
GRAHAM100
$15-20 student tickets available
The Martha Graham Dance Company celebrates its 100th anniversary season with three unique programs.
Martha Graham is recognized as a primal artistic force of the 20th century, alongside Pablo Picasso, Virginia Woolf, Igor Stravinsky, and Frank Lloyd Wright. She radically expanded the dance vocabulary, rooting it in social, psychological, and sexual ideas, and forever altering the art form. Her company, celebrating its 100th season since its 1926 beginnings in a small studio at Carnegie Hall, exemplifies its founder’s timeless and uniquely American style of dance.
In addition to her astonishing and groundbreaking choreography, Graham was known for her collaborations with visual artists whose set designs took her works to a completely different level. For these three different performances, the company will bring some of its original sets by the Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi, who partnered with Graham in over 20 works including Appalachian Spring and Cave of the Heart. Together, their choreography and set design captured the complexity of the uniquely American experience.
PROGRAM (Fri 1/16/2026: Power Center)
Night Journey (Choreography by Martha Graham, Music by William Schuman, Sets by Isamu Noguchi)
Immediate Tragedy (Choreography by Martha Graham, Music by Christopher Rountree)
Panorama (Choreography by Martha Graham, Music by Norman Lloyd)
En Masse (Choreography by Hope Boykin, Music by Leonard Bernstein and Christopher Rountree)
PROGRAM (Sat 1/17/2026: Power Center)
Chronicle (Choreography by Martha Graham, Music by Wallingford Riegger, Sets by Isamu Noguchi)
Cave of the Heart (Choreography by Martha Graham, Music by Samuel Barber, Sets by Isamu Noguchi)
CAVE (Choreography by Hofesh Shechter, Music by Âme and Hofesh Shechter)
PROGRAM (Sun 1/18/2026: Power Center)
Appalachian Spring (Choreography by Martha Graham, Music by Aaron Copland, Sets by Isamu Noguchi)
Lamentation (Choreography by Martha Graham, Music by Zoltán Kodály)
Panorama (Choreography by Martha Graham, Music by Norman Lloyd)
En Masse (Choreography by Hope Boykin, Music by Leonard Bernstein and Christopher Rountree)
Special Lobby Installation
Peter Sparling, a distinguished U-M professor emeritus and former principal dancer with Martha Graham,
celebrates the Graham Company’s visit to Ann Arbor with his third show of paintings in the Power Center lobby. Doom-Eager: Paintings for Martha will feature Sparling’s large-scale murals inspired by Graham’s masterwork, Night Journey, and evoke the darker dramatic aspects of many of her ill-fated heroines. The lobby is only open to the public one hour before and during each performance.
Thank You to Our Sponsors
TITLE SPONSOR
- The Ehrenberg Family Charitable Fund
PRINCIPAL SPONSOR
- Herbert S. and Carol L. Amster Endowment Fund
- Ken Fischer Legacy Endowment Fund
SUPPORTING SPONSOR
- Ilene H. Forsyth Theater Endowment Fund
- Claire L. Turcotte
FUNDED IN PART BY
- Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation
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MEDIA PARTNERS
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Martha Graham Dance Company
GRAHAM100
Power Center
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$15-20 student tickets available
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