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EARLY SPRING.(Martha Graham Dance Company's 2003 New York season)

The New Yorker

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The Martha Graham Dance Company, which recently completed a two-week season at the Joyce Theatre, looks as though it's just been let out of jail. As has been widely reported, Graham, when she died in 1991, willed all her property--presumably including her repertory--to Ron Protas, a younger man (forty-odd years her junior) who had been her closest companion in her later years. With this legacy, and without any formal training in dance or in administration, Protas became the artistic director of her troupe. There followed a decade of mounting misery, which culminated, in 2001, in a lawsuit. Finally, last summer, a federal district court ruled that most of Graham's extant ...

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