Acocella: The Troubled Graham Legacy

The troubled Martha Graham Company season was down to one performance – a gala – this year. And there’s plenty that’s not working right, writes Joan Acocella. “So certain things didn’t work. And for a portion of the Graham audience, I suspect, [artistic director Janet] Eilber’s whole effort to renovate this repertory is not going to work. No artist ever had a greater reputation for high-mindedness than Graham. That was part of her mystique, and so, for some of her old fans, a program like this is going to look like a cheap sales job.”