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Born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, on May 11, 1894, Martha Graham grew up in Santa Barbara, California, from age 10, and after completing her formal education in California schools she devoted herself to dancing. ... In 1927 she founded the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York. ... As a creator of dances Graham never allowed her work to settle into any one hackneyed set of movements or moods. ... Graham retired from performing in 1970, but she continued thereafter as choreographer of her troupes and as director of the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance. In 1973 she published The Notebooks of Martha Graham. ... Biographies include LeRoy Leatherman, Martha Graham (1966); Don McDonagh, Martha Graham (1973); and Agnes de Mille, Martha: The Life and Work of Martha Graham (1991). ... ), Martha Graham (1937, reprinted 1978), contains articles, reviews, and pictures of Martha Grahams Dance Theatre. Barbara Morgan, Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances in Photographs, rev. ... Reminiscences by Grahams dancers and students can be found in Marian Horosko (compiler), Martha Graham: The Evolution of Her Dance Theory and Training, 1926-1991 (1991), by twenty-six of her students, with descriptions of dance movements; and Robert Tracy, Goddess: Martha Grahams Dancers Remember (1997).
Martha Graham reached the pinnacle of success in the 1940s, when her innovations in modern dance were critically and publicly acclaimed, first in New York City, and then nationwide. ...
Martha Graham was to modern dance what Pablo Picasso was to modern art: the single greatest innovator of this century. ...
New York Diva
As a choreographer Graham initially returned to simple and primitive movements — walking, running, and skipping — and built short "mood" dances from these fundamentals. ... More-ambitious pieces featuring the dynamic music of modern composers, such as Lamentation (1930), Dithyrambic (1931), and Primitive Mysteries (1931), formalized the Graham style: highly theatrical expressions, angular stances, explosive, stylized gestures in the limbs, spare and abstract stage settings. Graham sought to integrate motifs and innovations in modern art and psychology into dance. ... Graham received twenty-three curtain calls after the debut of Primitive Mysteries. ...
Martha Graham
1893-1991
Dancer, choreographer
Martha Graham reached the pinnacle of success in the 1940s, when her innovations in modern dance were critically and publicly acclaimed, first in New York City, and then nationwide.
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