American Dance Festival: Jesse Factor

One of the world’s largest and most influential modern dance festivals marks its 93rd annual season, spotlighting Jesse Factor.

Jesse Factor’s solo work, “The Marthaodyssey,” explores a series of tensions: authenticity versus artifice, minimalism versus spectacle, and modernist rigor alongside pop influence. Inspired by modern dance pioneer Martha Graham and pop icon Madonna, Factor blends discipline with theatricality in a work that draws from both traditions.

Part modernist archive, part pop culture pageant and part drag performance, “The Marthaodyssey” is unapologetically theatrical.