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  1. Martha Graham

    Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 - April 1, 1991) [1] was an American modern dancer and choreographer, whose style, the Graham technique, reshaped American dance and is still taught worldwide. [2] Graham danced and taught for over seventy years. She was the first dancer to perform at the White House, travel abroad as a cultural ambassador, and ...

  2. Martha Graham

    Martha Graham, influential American dancer, teacher, and choreographer of modern dance whose ballets and other works were intended to 'reveal the inner man.' She gave modern dance new depth as a vehicle for the intense and forceful expression of primal emotions. Learn more about Graham's life and career.

  3. Martha Graham

    Martha Graham is considered by many to be the 20th century's most important dancer and the mother of modern dance.

  4. Martha: The Life and Work of Martha Graham- A Biography

    The author, a celebrated choreographer and a friend of Martha Graham for more than sixty years, traces Graham's life and career and discusses her training as a student, her early successes, and her development of a new language of dance

  5. A New Martha Graham Biography Is a Study in Grace and Balance

    Deborah Jowitt's "Errand Into the Maze" revels in the artistry of the dance legend, while downplaying the messy choices in her marathon career.

  6. Martha Graham

    Martha Graham's continued experimentation and her constant attention to human emotion, frailty, and perseverance, is one of the greatest individual achievements in American cultural history.

  7. 'Movement Never Lies': The Genius of Martha Graham

    The most revealing statements in a new biography come from the dancers who gave their lives and bodies to her experiments.

  8. History

    Martha Graham's dancing and choreography exposed the depths of human emotion through movements that were sharp, angular, jagged, and direct. The dance world was forever altered by Martha Graham's vision, which has been and continues to be a source of inspiration for generations of dance and theatre artists.

  9. Martha Graham

    Graham, inspiring the next generation of dancers, choreographers, and teachers, among them: Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor. Baldwin tells the story of this large, fiercely lived life, a life beset by conflict, competition, and loneliness—filled with fire and inspiration, drive, passion, dedication, and sacrifice in work and in dance creation.

  10. Errand into the Maze: The Life and Works of Martha Graham

    From the legendary dance critic Deborah Jowitt, Errand into the Maze is the definitive biography of the visionary dancer and choreographer Martha Graham.

  11. Martha Graham's Movement

    Martha Graham's Movement. A recent biography dives into the choreographer's role as both an artist and figure of early American modernism. Martha Graham performing in 1962. (Photo by Jack ...

  12. Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern

    His next book, Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern, will be published on October 25, 2022 in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf; and as an Audible Audiobook. He received his PhD in Modern American Poetry from SUNY/Buffalo, where he studied with Robert Creeley. Baldwin is the critically-acclaimed author of biographies of William Carlos Williams ...

  13. Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern

    Here is Graham, from her nineteenth-century (born in 1894) Allegheny, Pennsylvania, childhood, to becoming the star of the Denishawn exotic ballets, and in 1926, at age thirty-two, founding her own company (now the longest-running dance company in America). Baldwin writes of how the company flourished during the artistic explosion of New York ...

  14. Martha Graham : A Dancer's Life

    Books. Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life. Russell Freedman. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998 - Biography & Autobiography - 175 pages. Martha Graham, the American dancer, teacher, and choreographer, revolutionized the world of modern dance. She possessed a great gift for revealing emotion through dance, expressing beliefs and telling stories in an ...

  15. Blood Memory: An autobiography: Graham, Martha: 9780385265034: Amazon

    Blood Memory: An autobiography. Hardcover - August 1, 1991. by Martha Graham (Author) 4.7 71 ratings. See all formats and editions. The innovative choreographer describes her childhood, her days with the Denishawn Dance Company, her tragic marriage, her own company, and her work with such artists as Chaplin, Louise Brooks, Aaron Copland, and ...

  16. Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life

    Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life. Russell Freedman. Clarion Books, $19 (176pp) ISBN 978--395-74655-4. Freedman (Lincoln; Eleanor Roosevelt; Franklin Delano Roosevelt) once again animates American ...

  17. Dancer of the Century: Martha Graham

    This week marks the birthday of Martha Graham, the most influential American dancer of the 20th century and mother of modern dance. Graham's pioneering career had a monumental impact on American dance and performance that is still felt today and her legacy reminds us of how critical art is to the hu

  18. The Passion of Martha Graham

    Reviewed: Errand into the Maze: The Life and Works of Martha Graham. by Deborah Jowitt. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 465 pp., $35.00. The job of the biographer who sets out to write about a great artist lies in part in resolving the tug-of-war between the life and the work. The two are intimately connected, but a body of work is never fully ...

  19. Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life by Russell Freedman

    Martha Graham, the American dancer, teacher, and choreographer, revolutionized the world of modern dance. She possessed a great gift for revealing emotion through dance, expressing beliefs and telling stories in an utterly new way. Newbery Medalist Russell Freedman documents Martha Graham's life from her birth in 1894 to her final dance performance at the age of seventy-five and continued ...

  20. Martha Graham

    In 1973 she published The Notebooks of Martha Graham. Martha Graham - Modern Dance, Choreography, Innovator: For Martha Graham, the dance, like the spoken drama, can explore the spiritual and emotional essence of human beings. Thus, the choreography of Frontier symbolized the frontier woman's achievement of mastery over an uncharted domain.

  21. Martha Graham

    Biography. Martha Graham, a pioneer in the establishment of American modern dance, was one of the principal choreographers of the twentieth century. Her work, which spanned more than seven decades, resulted in the development of a movement technique and a body of 180 choreographic works. Known also for her innovative collaborations, Graham worked with sculptor Isamu Noguchi, who designed over ...

  22. Martha Graham (Author of Blood Memory)

    Martha Graham. Martha Graham was an American dancer and choreographer regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance, and is widely considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. Graham invented a new language of movement, and used it to reveal the passion, the rage and the ecstasy common to human experience.

  23. Amazon.com: Martha Graham: books, biography, latest update

    Follow Martha Graham and explore their bibliography from Amazon.com's Martha Graham Author Page.