UMS Concert Program, October 25, 1978: Martha Graham Dance Company -- Martha Graham

Season: Centennial
Concert: Eighteenth
Complete Series: Eighth Annual
Ann Arbor, Michigan

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THE UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Martha Graham Dance Company
MARTHA GRAHAM, Artistic Director
CHARLES BROWN --JACQULYN BUGLISI --CHRISTINE DAKIN --MARIO DELAMO
JANET EILBER --DIANE GRAY --KEVIN KEENAN --YURIKO KIMURA
DINDI LIDGE --PEGGY LYMAN --SUSAN McLAIN -LUCINDA MITCHELL
ELISA MONTE --JEANNE RUDDY --PHILIP SALVATORI-PETER SPARLING
BERT TERBORGH --SHARON TYERS --ALLEN VON HACKENDAHL
TIM WENGERD --GEORGE WHITE, JR.
Ron Protas, General Director and Associate Artistic Director
Linda Hodes, Associate Artistic Director
Cynthia Parker, General Manager
Wednesday Evening, October 25, 1978, at 8:00
Power Center for the Performing Arts
Ann Arbor, Michigan
From early in her career, Martha Graham has had recognition from perceptive audiences, critics, and leaders in the art world. She has often been compared to Picasso and Stravinsky because of her long dominance of her chosen art. Leading dancers and choreographers proclaim that hers has probably been the single most significant contribution to dance in this century, as she has broadened its function and scope to include all facets of the arts. Her collaboration with contemporary composers brought her the Laurel Leaf of the Composers' Alliance for her service to music, while her general influence on all the arts was recognized when she was the recipient of the Aspen Award in the Humanities. And ultimately, in the fall of October 1976, President Gerald Ford awarded Miss Graham the Medal of Freedom, making her the first dancerchoreographer to receive this high honor.
The Martha Graham Dance Company has appeared twice in Ann Arbor, prior to this week's performances: the first in 1970, and as the opening events of the 1975 "Choice" Series.
The three concerts this week comprise a residency under the Dance Touring Program, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Michigan Council for the Arts.
Centennial Season -Eighteenth Concert Eighth Annual Choice Series
CAVE OF THE HEART (1946)
Choreography and Costumes by Martha Graham Music by Samuel Barber
Set by Isamu Noguchi Original lighting by Jean Rosenthal
In Greek legend, Medea was a Princess of Colchis, renowned as a sorceress. She fled from her home with the hero Jason to Corinth where she lived with him as wife and bore him two children. But Jason was ambitious, and when King Creon offered him the hand of his daughter in marriage, he abandoned Medea. Maddened with jealousy, Medea sent the Princess a wedding gift--an enchanted crown. When the Princess placed the crown upon her head, it brought down upon her a terrifying death. Medea then murdered her own children and fled Corinth in a chariot drawn by dragons, returning to her father, the Sun.
Cave of the Heart is Martha Graham's dramatization of the legend of Medea. The action is focused directly on the legend's central theme: the terrible destructiveness of jealousy and the alliance with the dark powers of humanity as symbolized by magic. There are only four characters: Medea, Jason, the Princess, and the Chorus, who foreseeing the tragedy about to be enacted, vainly tries to prevent it, and suffers its deepest meaning.
The Sorceress, Medea..........Yuriko Kimura
Jason.............. Tim Wengerd
The Victim, Creon's Daughter......._ ji Lwcinda Mitchell
The Chorus.............Peggy Lyman
Vsed by arrangement with G. Schirmer, Inc.
INTERMISSION
THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT (1978)
Choreography by Martha Graham
Music by Carlos Surinach Set by Ming Cho Lee; Assistant designer, Karen Schulz
Lighting by Gilbert V. Hemsley, Jr. Costumes by Martha Graham and Halston
The eternal questions of relationships and a voyage . . .
Pussycat...............Yuriko Kimura
Owl...............Tim Wengerd
Turkey .............. Peter Sparling
Pig...............Bert Terborgh
Dolphins......Charles Brown, Kevin Keenan, Dindi Lidge,
Philip Salvatori, Allen Von Hackendahl,
George White, Jr.
Mermaids.......Christine Dakin, Lucinda Mitchell,
Sharon Tyers Storyteller..............Janet Eilber
Used by arrangement with Associated Music Publisher Inc., New York
INTERMISSION
ECUATORIAL
Choreography by Martha Graham
Music by Edgard Varese
Set by Marisol; Associate designer, Karen Schulz Costumes: Capes by Marisol, Executed by Halston;
Other costumes by Halston Lighting by Gilbert V. Hemsley, Jr.
As long as the tribe shall live. . . .
Celebrant oj the Moon...........Elisa Monte
Celebrant oj the Sun...........Mario Delamo
Martha Graham has dedicated Ecuatorial to a dear and cherished friend, Alice Tully. Used by arrangement with G. Schirmer, Inc., agents for E. C. Kerby Ltd.
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DIVERSION OF ANGELS (1948)
Choreography and Costumes by Martha Graham
Music by Norman Dello Joio Original lighting by Jean Rosenthal
Diversion of Angels is a lyric dance about the loveliness of youth, the pleasure and playfulness, quick joy and quick sadness of being in love for the first time.
Peggy Lyman George White, Jr.
Janet Eilber Peter Sparling
Christine Dakin Bert Terborgh
Jacqulyn Buglisi, Susan McLain, Jeanne Ruddy, Sharon Tyers, Dindi Lidge Used by arrangement with Carl Fischer, Inc.
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