Martha Graham’s legacy remains something of a problem for the company she founded in 1926, which continues performing her work today.
In a short interview in the program for her company’s recent performances at the Joyce Theater, Pam Tanowitz speaks to...
We could be watching children flit across an imagined stage, constructing a mock performance for their elders or, perhaps, their...
In Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises, protagonist Jake Barnes describes the work of a veteran bull fighter....
In her 1978 book Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag examined how diseases become “awash in significance.” “Nothing is more punitive,”...
In Jane Austen’s 1803 novel Northanger Abbey, seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland spends the winter in Bath, a town tucked away in...