Why Don't Women Make Dances Like That Any More? Or, What Made Martha So Mad?

Like a bat out of hell, each woman bounded across the space with leap/runs, hands in fists, face set in determination. The all-female ensemble of Sketches from ‘Chronicle’ (1936), led powerfully by Jennifer DePalo, worked up to a fever pitch, infusing the spare geometry of Graham’s choreography with energy and resolve. I couldn’t really see […]