Caption: *"The Dance": A portrait of Martha Graham in her 85th year, with current and former dancers and associates; 3:30 p.m. CBE-FM (89.9).*"Soundstage": "The Car's the Thing." Overprotected young man builds a model sports car that begins to talk with a sexy, feminine Italian voice, 4:05 p.m. CBE-AM (1550).Martha Graham at Music HallGraham: 'As long as there's an audience..'By MICHAEL MARGOLINFree Press Special WriterIt was a major even. People magazine photographed it. Critics gushed about it. Betty Ford attended it - on the arm of the tennis-shoed Woody Allen.It was the recent season opening of Martha Graham's dance troupe in New York. Nureyev was dancing in Miss Graham's company, but the world was focusing its attention on her, the grand dame of modern dance.MISS GRAHAM, 84, who is in Detroit with her company, which is performing through Sunday at Music Hall, hasn't always had it so good.Early in her career she performed several times in the Detroit area. Although she says she conveniently forgets all dates, she admits being in Detroit "the day the banks closed." (It was March 6, 1933.)A longtime associate and Detroit resident, Ruth Murray, recalls how the show nearly suffered the same fate."We set modern dance back a few years," she said with a chuckle. "One newspaper critic said he was less fearful of the communists shouting at the corners than these barefoot dancers."Miss Graham recalls that after she left Denishawn, the company she first danced for, someone told her her work was dreadful and asked how long she would keep it up."As long as there's an audience, I need the money," Graham said, she replied."It was very difficult. One shuts one's eyes. There was only one place to go - that's on. There were no subsidies or government funds in those days. I scrubbed my own studio floors.".
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