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Martha Graham Dance Company: We Are Our Time
Baye & Asa in Rehearsal for CORTEGE 2025
Brooklyn-based choreographers Sam and Amadi reveal the challenges and elegance of working with the Graham dance troupe on their new dance piece “Cortege 2025.” Drawing inspiration from Martha Graham’s Cortege of Eagles, whose story focuses on Charon, the ferryman who shepherds souls to the underworld, while the Trojan Empire is crumbling.
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Dancers reflect on both the exhilaration and the physical and emotional toll of life on the road.
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Follow the Graham dancers from rehearsal to premiere as they carry Martha's legacy forward.