Marina Harss

Marina Harss is a dance critic and the author of The Boy from Kyiv: Alexei Ratmansky’s Life in Ballet, which was published last year. (May 2024)

The Passion of Martha Graham

In a new biography, Deborah Jowitt meticulously describes Graham’s pioneering dances, but brushes lightly over Graham’s fervid, turbulent personal relationships, and the importance she ascribed to passion and sexual pleasure.

Errand into the Maze: The Life and Works of Martha Graham

by Deborah Jowitt

May 9, 2024 issue

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