Janet Eilber and Michael Novak on Balancing Preservation and Innovation
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This special episode in partnership with The Kennedy Center features the leaders of two iconic modern dance companies in conversation. Janet Eilber, artistic director of the Martha Graham Dance Company since 2005, and Michael Novak, artistic director of the Paul Taylor Dance Company since 2018, discuss how they're keeping an eye to the past while shepherding their storied companies into the future. Their approaches to leadership, like the lives of Graham and Taylor themselves, run on both parallel and crisscrossing tracks.
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