Congratulations to the Martha Graham Dance Company on their 100th Year! We loved the performances at NY City Center last week and can't wait to see everyone at the gala tomorrow! Looking forward to meeting up with them on their worldwide tour. This photo is from “Night Journey" with dancers Laurel Dalley Smith, Leslie Andrea Williams, So Young An, Anne O'Donnell Passero, Anne Souder and Charlotte Landreau.
We loved getting to see the stunning Martha Graham Dance Company perform last night at New York City Center. If you are in NYC get tickets to see them - they are celebrating their 100th Anniversary! This photo is @jacoblarsn and @laureldalleysmith dancing “Diversion of Angels”, choreographed by Martha Graham.
We are so excited to see the Martha Graham Dance Company at New York City Center this week. They are celebrating their 100th anniversary and we are going to several performances. We hope to see you there! This photo is one of the Principal dancers - Xin Yin in a costume by Karen Young.
Please join us on Saturday, March 14th from 5-6:30 for a book signing and talk at The Church Sag Harbor. We'll be doing a talk with Bonnie Rychlak the former Curator of the Noguchi Museum. Bonnie wrote about the collaboration between Noguchi and Graham for our book celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Martha Graham Company. Get tickets through the link in our bio. @bookhampton will be there selling books.
Olga Smirnova, Leaps and Bounds
Until March 2022, Olga Smirnova was one of the top dancers at the Bolshoi, performing roles in a large swathe of the repertory, everything from Odette in “Swan Lake” to Marguerite Gauthier in John Neumeier’s “Lady of the Camellias” and Bianca in Jean-Christophe Maillot’s “Taming of the Shrew.” She was an infrequent visitor to New York, though she appeared in Natalia Makarova’s “La Bayadère” at American Ballet Theatre in 2014 and took part in the now legendary performances of George Balanchine’s “Jewels” at the Lincoln Center Festival in 2017, in which each section—”Emeralds,” “Rubies,” “Diamonds”—was taken on by dancers from the Paris Opéra, New York City Ballet, and the Bolshoi, respectively. I wrote at the time that Smirnova “seemed to swim in the music, like a magic creature.”
By Marina Harss
photo @nycdanceproject@kenbrowar@deborahory
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It was a great honor to have Valentino write the foreword for our book "The Style of Movement: Fashion and Dance". We are deeply saddened to hear of his passing.
We love his quote he wrote for our book - "I have always designed thinking about the movement of the the woman wearing the dress - where would she wear it, how would she move in it, and what it means to her. A dress should never be designed just to be viewed from just one angle, movement must be considered in an entire 360-degree point of view. Dancers have a remarkable elegance with the way they hold their bodies: they truly carry a dress with gentlest touch; a way that allows the dress to have freedom to move and be and carry the emotion of the movement. I have loved collaborating with dancers throughout my career because the movement of a dancer brings life to my designs." Dancer: Tiler Peck
