Spring 2011 marks the 85th anniversary season of the Martha Graham Dance Company—the oldest dance company  in the United States. The Company will be performing at the Rose Theater, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, NY, from March 15–20, 2011. In a style befitting the legendary artist herself, we are pleased to announce costumes for this season’s performances have been exclusively designed by Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, and Oscar de la Renta.

Donna Karan has designed costumes for Snow on the Mesa, choreographed by Robert Wilson, and Calvin Klein dresses the dancers for Maple Leaf Rag. Famed fashion photographer Albert Watson has shot the dancers in their designer duds. Above, the troupe wears Oscar de la Renta. After the jump view the company in all its glory.

For those interested in tickets for the Spring season of the Martha Graham Dance Company visit Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Boooooom! reports, ““Kolo”, created by French-artist Natacha Paganelli during her artist residency in Serbia. It is currently on display at Kunsthalle Mulhouse (France) until January.”

View the video after the jump.

News from the Walker – “Art forms merge and a gallery becomes a stage when renowned Japanese American movement artists Eiko & Koma create a new “living installation” as part of the Walker Art Center’s Event Horizon exhibition showcasing the collections. Naked will be performed six hours a day, six days a week, Tuesday through Sunday, November 2-30. Commissioned by the Walker, this movement/visual art installation features Eiko & Koma’s live bodies as they move in an immersive and charged organic environment of their own handcrafted design. It is the duo’s first prolonged return to a gallery-based living installation since Breath, a monthlong performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 1998. Visitors are invited to stay for a few minutes or the entire day, and return numerous times to experience the piece evolve.

Naked is the focal point of the Walker’s two-month celebration of Eiko & Koma’s acclaimed creative work that will be presented in Minneapolis October through November. The series of programs launches on October 2 with the Midwest debut performances of Raven, the artists’ newest staged work, and continues with screenings of their dance videos, a workshop with Eiko, and a Talking Dance program with the artists and McGuire Senior Performing Arts Curator Philip Bither. Together with Naked, these programs, as well as a comprehensive monograph to be published by the Walker in May 2011, serve as important components of the artists’ Retrospective Project, a three-year, multi-city survey of their nearly 40-year collaboration.”

Catch it from November 2, 2010 to November 30, 2010.

Still images from Naked (by Anna Lee Campbell) and a brief video follow.

On view through March 21, 2010, Dance with Camera brings together works on film, video and still photography to investigate the crossover between artists and dancers. The items exhibited begins in the 1960s, with work by Bruce Conner and Bruce Nauman. Dance with Camera then explores how video artists of the 1960s took to dance as a subject.

Through all, documenting dance is never the primary concern. The artists presented capture movement, shape, and the dynamism of dance. The synergy between artistic medium is strong, the balance of still and video helpful in setting a cohesive tone for the exhibition.

ICA Philadelphia is located at 118 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA.

Installation views follow.

Jim Cuno, Director of the Art Institute of Chicago, introduces the museum’s year long program 500 Ways of Looking at Modern. Celebrating the new Modern Wing, the programing series brings in art, lectures, literature, music, and more. A strong year for contemporary and modern arts in Chicago. (via Artbabble).