The Martha Graham Dance Company celebrates its 100th anniversary season with three unique programs.

Martha Graham is recognized as a primal artistic force of the 20th century, alongside Pablo Picasso, Virginia Woolf, Igor Stravinsky, and Frank Lloyd Wright. She radically expanded the dance vocabulary, rooting it in social, psychological, and sexual ideas, and forever altering the art form. Her company, celebrating its 100th season since its 1926 beginnings in a small studio at Carnegie Hall, exemplifies its founder’s timeless and uniquely American style of dance.

In addition to her astonishing and groundbreaking choreography, Graham was known for her collaborations with visual artists whose set designs took her works to a completely different level. For these three different performances, the company will bring some of its original sets by the Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi, who partnered with Graham in over 20 works including Appalachian Spring and Cave of the Heart. Together, their choreography and set design captured the complexity of the uniquely American experience.

Looking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)!