Lloyd Knight and Mariya Dashkina Maddux in Martha Graham’s ballet, “Phaedra.” (Photo by COSTAS.)
Princeton University is set to present a narrated lecture/demonstration by members of the Martha Graham Dance Company of Graham’s 1962 ballet, Phaedra, on March 27 at 4:30 p.m. in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center.
The ballet is a retelling of the story of Phaedra, Hippolytus and Theseus based on the ancient Greek myth and part of “Myth in Transformation: The Phaedra Project,” a year-long series of events at Princeton.
The narrated lecture/demonstration will provide an inside look at the creation of this ballet. Dancers will portray the five lead characters in the ballet—Phaedra, Theseus, Hippolytus, Aphrodite, Artemis—and will deconstruct the dance, stopping and starting the action to consider what Graham has layered into the choreography.
The program will also include a reading by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Princeton professor Paul Muldoon.
This event is free and open to the public.
McCarter Theatre Center is located at 91 University Place, Princeton.
More information is online at arts.princeton.edu.
