The Martha Graham Dance Company at Zellerbach, CAL Berkeley January 31
I decided to see Martha Graham's dance company as I had not seen them perform in years. Martha Graham felt dance could enable dancers to find sense of fulfillment through dancing itself. Her favorite quote was from St. John Perse: “ You have so little time to be born to the instant”. I would agree with her; movement training has helped me immeasurably. I remember taking ballet in graduate school "to keep my sanity", and the Hungarian dance master remembered me some years later at an Alumni Board luncheon, and when I asked him, how he recalled me among so many dancers(most professional ballet bound, such as Graham's company, the Toronto ballet and others)-- he replied, "I never forget a body." I felt very complimented. I used to be loyal to Graham , as she and her company came to the University of Wisconsin for a summer residency, and I used to go watch them rehearse in the dancing school. UW Madison offered the only Phd in d...