Don Martin was one of the last living members of the pioneering, integrated Lester Horton Dance Theater. He worked to preserve a modern dance legacy.
In addition to dancing, Martin was immersed in costume and set design, lighting and promotion, as well as teaching Horton technique to young students in L.A. In the early 1960s, he performed Horton’s “Dedication to Jose Clemente Orozco,” which was created in 1953.
When Horton died unexpectedly in 1953, Martin worked with Frank Eng, Horton’s business manager, to keep the theater and school open. In 1960, Eng decided to close the dance theater, and Martin moved to New York to join the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; he performed with the company abroad as part of John F. Kennedy’s “President’s Special International Program for Cultural Presentations.”
Martin and Angelou remained close friends for 50 years. “Don would tell me about how [Angelou] would come over to his apartment, because he had a fabulous apartment in West Hollywood, and she fixed chicken and dumplings,” Hughes said.At the school, where Martin taught until he was 85, he created original works and restaged Horton’s duet “Dedication to Jose Clemente Orozco” for students.
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