Event Details - Fall Classics Lecture

If you are fans of classical myth and modern dance, or if you want to learn more about how these disciplines can intertwine, please mark your calendars for the week of October 5. 

During this week, Classics and Dance will present two interdisciplinary events about and inspired by dancer and choreographer Martha Graham (1894–1991), whose repertory based on Greco-Roman myth continues to delight and fascinate.

Our second event is a lecture by Ronnie Ancona (Professor of Classics emerita, CUNY Hunter) based on her new book Martha Graham’s Greek Myth-Based Dances and Her Collaboration with Isamu Noguchi (Oxford 2026). Ancona will discuss Noguchi’s and Graham’s visual-performative collaboration, with an eye toward how her bold and woman-centered receptions of Greek myth emerged over time.