Contact
Presented by the Crooked Tree Arts Center School of Ballet
This event is part of a global celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Martha Graham Dance Company, the country’s oldest dance company.
This program honors Graham’s pioneering legacy with stagings of two of her most renowned dance works, “Appalachian Spring” (1944) and “Lamentation” (1930). Project Director Peter Sparling, former Graham principal dancer, also reimagines Graham's 1938 dance/theater piece, “American Document” as a community collaboration that explores local and personal histories gleaned from testimonials of a cross-section of members of the local population. “Our Own American Document” boldly fuses dance, music and the spoken word as it asks what it means to be an American living in a democracy in the Little Traverse Bay area.
About Crooked Tree Arts Center School of Ballet
Founded in 2003 by Artistic Director Heather Raue, the CTAC School of Ballet trains young people for professional careers in dance. The School of Ballet has a long legacy of outstanding training in ballet as well as serious contemporary styles and the emerging field of dance film. Former students have danced professionally in major American companies, attended prestigious BFA and MFA programs and excelled in other dance-related careers. Learn more at crookedtree.org/ballet