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The Martha Graham Dance Company at Zellerbach, CAL Berkeley January 31

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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...