Marta Becket performs at the Amargosa Opera House from October through April.
The dancer and artist has performed there since 1968.
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n stage there is a warble to her voice. She is thin, but her expressions are as varied and fluid as shifting sand
dunes. To say that Becket was beautiful when she was young, as evidenced by photographs in her program is to do a
disservice to the beauty she still holds.”
— Los Angeles Times
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Marta Becket was born in 1924, in New York City. A dancer on Broadway, TV and countless small venues all across America.
As a painter, Becket has been the subject of retrospective art exhibits in New York and Nevada.
In 1967, Becket moved to Death Valley Junction, eventually bought the abandoned theater, and has lived there ever since,
putting on productions of her own original “dance mimes.” Becket's career at the Amargosa Opera House has been the subject
of numerous news articles and magazine features. In 2000, Amargosa, a film by Todd Robinson about Becket and her theater,
was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary category.
- Becket was once part of the resident dance troupe at Radio City Music Hall.
- In addition to her dual career as dancer and painter, Becket also worked earlier in her life as a model, cartoonist, and
children's entertainer.
- Becket's paintings are collected by many people around the world. She has had one-woman retrospectives of her work in New York
and Nevada.
- One of Becket's biggest fans is famed author Ray Bradbury.
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