“Essential Graham: Classics from the Martha Graham Dance Company” will be performed at the Centre for Performing and Visual Arts in Newnan, Ga. next Tuesday evening.

The performance is presented by BB&T and the Centre and will take place on Feb. 26 at 7 p.m.

The Martha Graham Dance Company, founded by Martha Graham in 1926, is perhaps the oldest, most celebrated modern dance company in the world. It presents the classic Graham repertory and new choreography in its home city of New York and on tour, featuring an international roster of today’s most talented dance artists.

Celebrating its 80th anniversary season and acknowledged as “one of the greatest companies of the world” by Anna Kisselgoff, former chief of dance critic of the New York Times, the Martha Graham Dance Company has been lauded by critics everywhere. Alan M. Kriegman of the Washington Post called the company “one of the seven wonders of the artistic universe,” while Los Angeles Times critic Martin Berheimer noted, “They seem able to do anything, and to make it look as easy as well as poetic.”

Martha Graham (1894-1991) is recognized as a primal artistic force of the 20th century. In 1998, both Time magazine and People magazine named Martha Graham as the “Dancer of the Century” and People magazine named her among the female “Icons of the Century.” As a choreographer, she was as prolific as she was complex. She created 181 ballets and a dance technique that has been compared to ballet in its scope and magnitude. Her approach to dance and theater revolutionized the art form and her innovative physical vocabulary has irrevocably influenced dance worldwide.

The performance begins at 7 p.m., held at the Centre for Performing and Visual Arts, located at 1523 Lower Fayetteville Rd. Tickets are $25 and are available at the Centre, Scott’s Bookstore on the downtown Newnan square and Morgan’s Jewelers in Ashley Park, Newnan.

For more information, call 770-254-2787 or visit www.thecentreonline.net.

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