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Name: Martha Graham
Birth Date: May, 1894
Death Date: April 1, 1991
Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: dancer, choreographer, teacher

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Biography of Martha Graham
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Martha Graham (1894-1991), American dancer, choreographer, and teacher, was the world's leading exponent of modern dance. Martha Graham was born in a suburb of Pittsburgh, PA, in May, 1894. Her family moved to California when she was 10. Graham became...


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Martha Graham ( May 11 , 1894 – April 1 , 1991 ) 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 . Sourced There is a...


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Graham, Martha (1894-1991) Summary
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The greatest and most influential choreographer of modern dance, Graham built on the foundations created by American pioneers like Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, and Doris Humphrey. She created and codified a dance language that stressed...
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Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American dancer and choreographer. She is regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance and is widely considered as among the greatest artists of the 20th Century. She invented a new...


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The New York Observer
Can Martha Graham Be Kept Alive?
9/18/2007: 753 words, approx. 3 pages
For those of us who care about Martha Graham, it’s been a bumpy ride. I got on board in 1958, the year of Graham’s full-evening dance-drama Clytemnestra, the first work of hers I ever saw. To some Graham purists it was suspect—“a bit Hollywood,” as...
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The New York Observer
Continuity at Graham's Company Preserves the Founder's Spirit
4/17/2005: 1,660 words, approx. 6 pages
Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than I am, her genius as a performer will have to be taken on faith-and on the always-suspect evidence of film. What will last,...
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Investor's Business Daily
Musician Aaron Copland Reached Olympic Heights
10/3/2007: 843 words, approx. 3 pages
Composing can be a lonely job. Hour after hour, the composer sits at a piano, trying to bring out the music in his head.But for Aaron Copland, composition was about the people -- working with people, learning from them, befriending them, organizing and mentoring them.His...
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The New York Observer
A Brief Glimpse of Mark Morris As Performer and Choreographer
5/1/2005: 884 words, approx. 3 pages
Last week in this space I was complaining about the inferior choreographers we've been exposed to lately. Then, as if in answer to a prayer, Mark Morris turned up at B.A.M., giving me grounds for new complaint. To begin, why only four performances?Morris, as I've...
 


 

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