Graham's Frontier Performed in Berlin
As the Cold War drew to a close in 1987, Martha Graham and President Ronald Reagan each travelled to Berlin to celebrate the city’s 750th anniversary. The Graham Company performances in East Berlin included Frontier (1935), a work Graham had performed at the White House under President Roosevelt fifty years earlier. She described “the hold the frontier had always had on me as an American, as a symbol of a journey into the unknown.” During the year-long celebrations, President Ronald Reagan demanded “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” The Cold War officially ended in December 1991, when Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the U.S.S.R. and the Council of Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. acknowledged the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
As the Cold War drew to a close in 1987, Martha Graham and President Ronald Reagan each travelled to Berlin to celebrate the city’s 750th anniversary. The Graham Company performances in East Berlin included <em>Frontier</em> (1935), a work Graham had performed at the White House under President Roosevelt fifty years earlier. She described “the hold the frontier had always had on me as an American, as a symbol of a journey into the unknown.” During the year-long celebrations, President Ronald Reagan demanded “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” The Cold War officially ended in December 1991, when Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the U.S.S.R. and the Council of Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. acknowledged the dissolution of the Soviet Union.