The NYTimes discusses the recent ruling in the case of Martha Graham’s heir, Ronald Protas. The Martha Graham Center for Contemporary Dance believes that when she sold her school to the Center that it became its employee — and has the right to her body of work.
“This is definitely a success problem,” Charles Reinhart, the director of the American Dance Festival, said in an interview. “These problems would never have existed 50 years ago, because the concept of a penny being made by a choreographer or from a dance was unheard of. So now that the commercial aspect of making money has prevailed in this nonprofit world of dance, and the valuable asset is the dance itself — hey, that’s a success story. Now we’ve got to straighten it out and make sure we keep that value with the creator, the choreographer.”
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