Graham, Martha (1894-1991)
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,...
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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 ...
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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 s...
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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 o...
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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 peopl...
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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 n...
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Part pooh-bah, part pontiff, for some 50 years Leo Lerman ruled Manhattan’s cultural roost from a host of journalistic redoubts, including Mademoiselle, Vogue and Vanity Fair, ending his care...
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Through Jan. 27, Mark Morris is presenting a program of chamber works in the pleasant chamber theater (it seats 140) on the fifth floor of his spacious dance center opposite B.A.M. The featured att...
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Why do we love Paul Taylor? (Not the man, although we love him too, but the work.) There's the all-out energy and commitment with which his dancers move. There's the offbeat mind that finds large d...
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It's been the best of times, it's been the worst of times.The best included the recent triumphant Paul Taylor season, the highlights of the Martha Graham season, and for those of us who happened to...
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We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks—we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others. We know that the dance is a thing apart from the music; that elements of the d...
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We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks—we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others. We know that the dance is a thing apart from the music; that elements of the d...
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Graham, Martha (1894-1991)
Martha Graham
Can Martha Graham Be Kept Alive?
