Spring Festival of Dance
Produced by Patricia Seto-Weiss

The Lindemann Performing Arts Center
144 Angell St
Providence RI 02906

Program A with the Martha Graham Dance Company:
We are excited to host the Martha Graham Dance Company, currently celebrating their centenary. The company will present Martha Graham’s iconic Appalachian Spring, a work of optimism and determination conceived during the darkest days of World War II. The score, by Aaron Copland, will be performed by musicians from the Brown University Orchestra under the direction of Mark Seto. The evening will conclude with Jamar Roberts’s We the People to music by Rhiannon Giddens.

All performances will include Lamentation Variations, inspired by Martha Graham’s 1930 solo Lamentation. This ongoing project, originally created in remembrance of 9/11, continues to explore grief, resilience, and expression through movement. Brown University students will present three new variations, choreographed by Laila Franklin, Heidi Henderson, and Patricia Seto-Weiss.

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