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Choreographer Tommie-Waheed Evans, in conversation with dramaturg Ain Gordon, will use archival material alongside new musical composition, writing and visual design to create his response to Martha Graham's 1938 work "American Document". Co-commissioned by Penn Live Arts, this first collaboration between the Martha Graham Dance Company and PHILADANCO! brings us back to Graham's essential question, "What is an American?". Dancers from both companies come together on stage in a piece that invites us to imagine what an American voice could be at this moment in history - and in this semiquincentennial year.