Jack Ferver Featured in the New York Times
Jack Ferver, assistant professor of theater and performance.
Jack Ferver, assistant professor of theater and performance at Bard College, was featured in the New York Times in an article about choreographer Martha Graham, whose work Ferver highlights in what the Times calls an “excellent exhibition” at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The exhibition, Martha Graham: The Mother of Psychological Dance, takes place in five acts and addresses Graham’s sense of theatrical timing and structure. Gia Kourlas writes that the work of Graham’s that Ferver “responds to most and considers most necessary now involves Graham’s deep interest in psychology—how dance originating in an inner life was not only different, but radical.”
The centennial exhibition curated by Ferver traces the arc of Graham’s groundbreaking career, centering her visionary approach to dance as psychological expression. Graham transformed the dancing body into a vessel for inner life, using movement to externalize emotion, memory, and the unconscious. “There was such an ask that Graham had for her audience,” Ferver told Kourlas. “I feel that what Freud gave to modern psychology is what Graham gave to dance.”
Bard’s Theater and Performance Program offers an interdisciplinary, liberal arts-based approach to the making and study of theater and performance, and embraces a wide range of performance practices, from live art and interactive installation to classical theater from around the globe.
Post Date: 06-17-2026
The centennial exhibition curated by Ferver traces the arc of Graham’s groundbreaking career, centering her visionary approach to dance as psychological expression. Graham transformed the dancing body into a vessel for inner life, using movement to externalize emotion, memory, and the unconscious. “There was such an ask that Graham had for her audience,” Ferver told Kourlas. “I feel that what Freud gave to modern psychology is what Graham gave to dance.”
Bard’s Theater and Performance Program offers an interdisciplinary, liberal arts-based approach to the making and study of theater and performance, and embraces a wide range of performance practices, from live art and interactive installation to classical theater from around the globe.
Post Date: 06-17-2026