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Alessio Crognale | Photo by @mrnycsubway

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Alessio Crognale and Antonio Cangiano, Martha Graham Dance Company

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Alessio Crognale - Martha Graham Dance Company

photo by Vikki Sloviter

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Martha Graham Dance Company | Graham Class technique by Marzia Memoli and Alessio Crognale March24st, 2020 Part 1/2

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MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY

The Martha graham Dance Company is 93 years old and still kicking – and contracting and pitch turning and back falling, as it has since Graham invented the moves. Now Artistic director Janet Eilber maintains the Graham tradition, while adding new works by contemporary dance makers. This season at the Joyce, April 2-14, is titled The Eve Project, featuring guest dances by women – Pam Tanowitz, Lucinda Childs, Annie B Parson, and Maxine Doyle and Bobbi Jene Smith along with Graham. The company’s eighteen dancers are technically at the top of their game and expressively convincing, both in Graham’s classics and the new repertory. The program on Saturday, April 6, included the premiere by Tanowitz and three pieces by Graham.

“Errand into the Maze” (1947) depicts Theseus conquering the Minotaur. Graham substituted herself for Theseus, the protagonist, who ventures into the “maze of the heart’s darkness.” In this cast, company veteran Ben Schultz dances the taxing role of the creature with riveting menace and authority, even bridled with a horned headdress on his brow and his arms wrapped around a stick behind his neck. Gracious, lyrical Xin Ying, despite her technical precision, lacks the fierceness and determination to make us believe she could overcome Schultz’s “Creature of Fear.”

Charlotte Landreau and Laurel Dalley Smith (foreground) with Lorenzo Pagano (lying) and Leslie Andrea Williams in Pam Tanowitz’s UNTITLED (SOUVENIR). photo by Brian Pollock.

In her “Untitled (Souvenir)” Tanowitz is up to her habit of borrowing vocabulary from master choreographers like Balanchine, Cunningham, and here, Graham, and twisting it to her own devices. Here, she borrows some Graham-esque moves, like her so-called “darts” – walks with the free leg stretched behind and one arm crooked at the forehead – one-footed hops; deep knee bends with legs spread wide apart; knee crawls; high leg extension, supported by a hand under the calf; and deep hinging back falls. The dance is set to music from two of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw’s string quartets “Punctum” and “Valencia.”

(l-r): Charlotte Landreau, Lorenzo Pagano, Lloyd Knight, and Anne O’Donnell in Pam Tanowitz’s UNTITLED (SOUVENIR). photo by Brian Pollock.

For a “set,” Tanowitz recycles the cylindrical platform from “Chronicle,” tipped on its side, and one of the “Secular Games” stools.  There is no obvious narrative line, but there are a few dramatic spasms like Leslie Andrea Williams mini freak-out, as she holds herself in a side plank on the floor or Natasha M. Diamond-Walker’s pacing solo, pinned centerstage in a pool of Yi-Chung Chen’s light. Costumes by Ryan Lobo and Ramon Martin of TOME are accordion-pleated, delicately flowing, chiffon culottes and shift dresses, in black and white.

Tanowitz also employs some of her own signature preferences effectively, like extended stillness, musical silences, and massing all the stage action on just one side of the stage, as in a trio for the three men (Lloyd Knight, Lloyd Manor, and Lorenzo Pagano), in a weaving trio downstage right, while the women (Williams, Diamond-Walker, Laurel Dalley Smith, Charlotte Landreau, Anne O’Donnell, and Marzia Memoli) pose in a sculptural frieze upstage right, leaving the entire left side of the stage momentarily idle. The final passage of the dance gives equal time to stage left, as all eight dancers, one by one, conclude their actions and come to rest in a compact tableau downstage left.

“Secular Games” (1962) is one of the Graham dances I performed while in her company during the 1965 Broadway season at the 54th Street Theater (which has long since been replaced by some commercial tower). In this performance, they did only the first movement, “Play with Thought – on a Socratic Island.” Today’s dancers are so much stronger muscularly than 60 years ago that the piece has become less less grounded and less sensual, and more buoyant, than it was in the bodies of dancers like Dudley Williams, William Louther, Richard Kuch, and especially Robert Powell – a quintessential Graham dancer of the 60s. I missed feeling the intensity of their comradery, as they one-upped each other in jumps and tumbles that symbolized the bantering of Socratic arguments. Their performances are captivating, nonetheless. Between bots of sporting, the muscularly etched men in rust tights with maroon belts and bare chests (Alessio Crognale, Lloyd Knight, Jacob Larsen, Lorenzo Pagano, and Schultz) lounge on low stools, with which the original light and set designer Jean Rosenthal arrayed the rear of the stage.

Leslie Andrea Williams in Martha Graham’s CHRONICLE. photo by Melissa Sherwood

The program closes with “Chronicle” (1936), Graham’s politically-driven protest for a cast of women, set to Wallingford Riegger’s rhythmic orchestral score. The dance has the galvanizing power of Ailey’s “Revelations,” bringing the audience to its feet in ovation. Williams, an African-American woman performs the opening solo with the kind of riveting dramatic power Graham must have generated in her prime. She wears the Graham-designed immense overskirt, black outside, lined in blood red, she manages the tricky manipulation of the fabric with deft precision that amplifies her every move and adds to its dramatic impact; when she wraps herself in the inverted overskirt, she embodies the bloodiness of war.

(l-r): Laurel Dalley Smith, So Young An, and Cara McManus in Martha Graham’s CHRONICLE. photo by Melissa Sherwood.

The second part has the women stepping backwards in interlocking patterns with one arm held protectively across their abdomens and their heads resting against the other forearm, bent in a gesture of anxiety and grief. Suddenly, they burst into fusillades of jumping like warriors with one leg bent, the other straight, like an army on the warpath. The pounding pulse of Riegger’s music drives the charge, and quickens our blood. In the final section, the soloist returns, now dressed in a white dress with a black yoke at the neckline. She and dynamic Memoli lead the women in their last, heroic onslaught.

(center) Leslie Andrea Williams and Martha Graham Dance Company in Martha Graham’s CHRONICLE. photo by Melissa Sherwood.

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Hahahaha NBD Alessio Crognale said he loves the choreography I’ve been working on before the start of class.

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Nutcracker 2017 Westport’s Academy of Dance. I just want to say congratulations to all my students. For performing with all their heart, talent, and enthusiasm in the Nutcracker. It’s was so much fun! Also, I want to thank all of the volunteer-parents. Their help making this possible, is always greatly appreciated ❤️. I would like to say thanks to our guest artists: Leyland Simmons, Dajuan Booker, Alessio Crognale, and to Ask La Cour, for sharing their talents with us. Special mention to all the Academy staff, and my colleagues, for making this Nutcracker such a wonderful experience for everyone. Good job 👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻. Very, very special thanks to Nancy Zindell, our director. For being so awesome, and keeping the tradition of the Nutcracker so special. Love ❤️ David Shot in IPhone 7 Plus + DJI Stabilizer Apps: FILMIC Pro, LumaFusion, LumaFX, and Title Master. #davidfernandezdancefilms #lovemycapeziostore #choreographer #ballet #balletlove #balletdancers #balletlife #dancer #becreative #ilovemywork #ilovechoreography #moderndance #keeptrying #notautomatic #momentsnotmoves #worldballetproject #gooutsidegetinspired #welcomecreativity #inspiredbythedancers @asklac @dbook85 @antwainnyc1 @crognaless @westportacademyofdance @visualmerc

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Alessio Crognale | Photos by @mrnycsubway

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Alessio Crognale | Photo by  esp_bymike

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Alessio Crognale - Martha Graham Dance Company - photo by Vikki Sloviter 

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Alessio Crognale - Martha Graham Dance Company - photo by Gustavo Mirabile | PhotoScapes - @gustavomirabilephoto

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Ricardo G. Barrett, Alessio Crognale, and Ben Schultz in “UNUM” – Buglisi Dance Theater  –  choreographed by Virginie Mécène – photos by Steven Pisano – @steven_pisano

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Ricardo G. Barrett, Alessio Crognale, and Ben Schultz in “UNUM” – Buglisi Dance Theater  –  choreographed by Virginie Mécène – photos by Steven Pisano – @steven_pisano

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Alessio Crognale - Martha Graham Dance Company - photo by  Steven Vandervelden -  @vandyphotography

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Alessio Crognale, Martha Graham Dance Company

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