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Created by dancer Lloyd Knight, choreographer Jack Ferver, and filmmaker Jeremy Jacob, The Drama highlights the life of Martha Graham Dance Company Principal Dancer Lloyd Knight in an intimate and personal solo dance work inspired by two important women in his life: his mother and the legendary modern dance choreographer Martha Graham. The Drama lays bare what it takes both physically and psychologically to pursue a life in dance and touches on Knight’s upbringing and what drew him to dance from an early age.

Exploring ideas around femininity, iconic roles within the Martha Graham Company, and more, The Drama utilizes movement, spoken word, sound, video, and creative colorful projection to give audiences an immersive experience. Knight will have audiences in awe of his physicality, his remarkable dance technique, and his storytelling in this moving and entertaining one-hour solo work.

Written & Performed by Lloyd Knight
Directed & Choreographed by Jack Ferver
Production Design by Jeremy Jacob

The Drama was commissioned by Works & Process and DANCECleveland, and developed over a series of Works & Process LaunchPAD residencies at Bridge Street Theatre, Modern Accord Depot, and Watermill Center.

Tickets start at $58

  • Lloyd Knight

    Lloyd Knight joined the Martha Graham Dance Company in 2005, became a Principal Dancer in 2015 and performs major roles of the Graham repertory including Appalachian Spring, Embattled Garden, Night Journey among others. Bessie Nominated for best Performer in 2022, Dance Magazine also named him one of “Top 25 Dancers to Watch” in 2010 and one of the best performers of 2015. Mr. Knight has starred with ballet greats Wendy Whelan and Misty Copeland in signature Graham duets and has had roles created for him by such renowned artists as Nacho Duato and Pam Tanowitz. Knight has performed as a principal guest artist for The Royal Ballet of Flanders directed by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui as well as with Twyla Tharp Dance. Born in England and raised in Miami, he trained at Miami Conservatory of Ballet and New World School of the Arts. He was an 2023 Dance Research Fellow for The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and his one-person show The Drama premiered at The Guggenheim in January 2025.

  • Jack Ferver

    Jack Ferver is a New York based writer, choreographer, and performer. Their genre defying performances, which have been called “so extreme that they sometimes look and feel like exorcisms” (The New Yorker), inhabit while indicting psychological and socio-political issues, particularly in the realms of queerness, gender, and power struggles.Their work has been  presented in New York City at New York Live Arts; New Museum; The Kitchen; Crossing the Line; Abrons Arts Center; Gibney Dance; Performance Space 122; Performa 11; Danspace Project; and Dixon Place. Domestically and internationally at Mass MoCA (MA); the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College (NY); Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (OR); the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA (ME); the Institute of Contemporary Art (MA); Fusebox Festival (TX); Diverse Works (TX); Temperance Hall (Australia); and Théâtre de Vanves (France). They have collaborated with their partner, the visual artist and filmmaker, Jeremy Jacob on performances and short films which draw from both artist’s research of cinema, queerness, memory, and AIDS. The duo’s most recent film NOWHERE APPARENT, was presented by AllArts in 2023. Ferver is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists. They teach at Bard College.

  • Jeremy Jacob

    Jeremy Jacob is an award-winning filmmaker and visual artist. Jacob’s work has been presented by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Palazzo Grassi, Bard College, The Zuckerman Museum of Art, Cindy Rucker Gallery, Projekt 722, Montserrat College Of Art, New York Live Arts, American Ballet Theatre, Dance On Camera Festival, The New York Public Library, among others. In 2024 Jeremy Jacob was the Anniversary Fellow at the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, a member of the nominating committee for the New York Odyssey Film Festival, and a jurist for the San Francisco Dance Film Festival. Jeremy is also the founder and director of A Doll’s House Pictures.

    Learn more at jeremyjacob.com and adollshousepictures.com.

Sponsors

Performing Arts programs are supported by 2026 season sponsors Galia Meiri-Stawski and Axel Stawski, with additional lead support from Henry and Peggy Schleiff, The Melville Straus Family Endowment, Monica and Peter Tessler, and Vital Projects Fund. 

Dance programming is supported by Principal Sponsor SHS Foundation. 

Additional support provided by Friends of the Theater: Natascia Ayers and Jim Ciquera, Bonnie and Joel Bergstein, Gene Bernstein and Kathy Walsh, Amy Cooney and Marty Feinman, John and Joan D’Addario, Suzanne and John Golden, Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan, Steve Pesner, in memory of his wife, Michèle Pesner, whose entire life was devoted to all aspects of culture, The Schaffner Family Foundation, Lisa Schultz and Ezriel Kornel, Stacey and Oliver Stanton, and Susi and Peter Wunsch. 

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