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	Martha Graham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Martha Graham and Bertram Ross in Visionary Recital, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1961
		Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991), an American dancer and choreographer, is known as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance.
		In 1927, the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance was established.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martha_Graham (638 words)

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		Martha Graham was born in 1894 in a small city outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
		Martha Graham died in 1991, after a career that lasted 75 years and produced some of the greatest masterpieces of the American modern dance.
		Graham's movement system and her theory of contraction and release are central to the development of modern dance in the United States.
	www.pitt.edu /~gillis/dance/martha.html (1089 words)

	Martha Graham - MSN Encarta
		Graham's austere costuming and staging, as well as the angularity and severity of her movements, caused some initial bewilderment and antagonism, although she also won much immediate recognition.
		Graham's more than 150 works vary in mood from the witty Every Soul Is a Circus (1939) to the frenzied Deaths and Entrances (1943), based loosely on the Brontë family with Emily as the heroine.
		Graham's concerns ranged from American themes, in Letter to the World (1940), a study of the life of the poet Emily Dickinson, to psychologically interpreted Greek mythology, in Clytemnestra (1958).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564782/Martha_Graham.html (470 words)

	Martha Graham :: The Encyclopedia of New York State :: Syracuse University Press
		Martha Graham's strict but devoted father was a psychiatrist of Scots-Irish descent; her mother claimed Plymouth, Mass, pioneer Miles Standish as an ancestor.
		Graham spent several years with the Greenwich Village Follies before being hired in 1925 as co-director of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, where she began to develop a dance training mode based on a system of contractions and releases.
		Graham expanded the all-female company in 1938 to incorporate male performers and in 1944 developed her celebrated Appalachian Spring as a gift to dancer Erick Hawkins, an emerging force in the company.
	www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu /encyclopedia/entries/martha-graham.html (562 words)

	Gale Schools - Women's History Month - Biographies - Martha Graham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		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.
		Under the influence of Jung, Graham wrote the dance to express her belief in a collective "motor memory" in the body, a primordial genius of the senses she sought to evoke.
		Graham used small portable objects to signify the icons of memory, both collective and individual; the dance itself was filled with tense body gestures, indicative of tortured repressions.
	www.galeschools.com /womens_history/bio/graham_m.htm (1019 words)

	Martha Graham & Modern Dance
		Graham’s attitude to dance was arguably influenced by her father, a psychologist, who told her that ‘movement never lies’.
		Graham said that with contraction, or the breath’s expiration, the chest curved inwards and ‘suggested to her fear and sorrow’.
		As Graham wrote to Coolidge in August 1942, ‘“I have done those things only that I could feel and understand, not in a verbal sense, perhaps, but in my medium, my instrument, my body.”’ (42) That is, she could not choreograph the male movements because she could not feel them.
	www.angelfire.com /zine/donnamford/graham.html (3577 words)

	Library Receives Martha Graham Collection
		Other provisions in the agreement with the Martha Graham Trust are the mounting of a performance of a newly commissioned work by the Graham Dance Company at the Library and the creation of a five-year Martha Graham Legacy Project to fully document and preserve her works.
		Graham, who died in 1991 at the age of 96, was a modern dance pioneer who, through her prolific repertoire and distinctive technique, altered the course of dance in this century.
		Martha Graham's influence looms large in the history of 20th century dance, and the technique she developed is now regarded as standard for modern dance.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/9806/graham.html (1502 words)

	Martha Graham Dies at 96; A Revolutionary in Dance
		Miss Graham's dances spoke elo- quently against the crushing of the human spirit, and one of her frequent themes was the condemnation of intolerance, especially toward nonconformists.
		For Miss Graham, dance became a collective memory that could communicate the emotions universal to all civilizations: mythology, she felt, was the psychology of the ancients.
		Martha Graham, the eldest of three daughters, was born on May 11, 1894, in Allegheny, Pa., to George Graham, a physician who specialized in mental disorders, and the former Jane (Jenny) Beers, a descendant of Miles Standish.
	www.nytimes.com /specials/magazine4/articles/graham1.html (2551 words)

	AP ARTS REVIEW: Martha Graham Dance Company - Boston.com
		The Martha Graham Dance Company has been in existence for 80 years -- a mighty achievement for the country's oldest dance troupe, which has survived the death of its pioneering founder and a nasty copyright battle over her works, brought by her heir Ronald Protas.
		Graham's favorite review, Ivey told the audience, was one that came early in her career, saying that she "blazed" onstage.
		Earlier, Baryshnikov noted that Graham once said she wanted to be remembered as a dancer, but that tonight she was being honored as a choreographer.
	www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2006/04/19/ap_arts_review_martha_graham_dance_company (560 words)

	The Noguchi Museum - People : Martha Graham
		Dancer and choreographer Martha Graham (1894-1991) was the central figure of the modern dance movement.
		Martha Graham started dancing in 1916 with the Denishawn company, and she began her independent career in 1926 in New York City.
		Martha Graham retired as a dancer in 1970, but continued to teach her dance technique and to choreograph for her company.
	www.noguchi.org /graham.html (218 words)

	American Masters . Martha Graham \| PBS
		Graham saw this as an opportunity to engage her best pupils in the experiential dance she was beginning to create.
		Graham believed that through spastic movements, tremblings, and falls she could express emotional and spiritual themes ignored by other dance.
		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.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/graham_m.html (958 words)

	Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Martha Graham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Graham was born on May 11, 1894, in Pittsburgh, where she lived until she was 14.
		Graham's company embarked on their first tour to Paris in 1954, where her ballets were booed by the audience.
		Martha Graham Dance Company - PWTV Broadcast: Company members discuss the legacy of Martha Graham, demonstrate the technique that continues to influence dancers today, and perform excerpts from some of the companyâs most celebrated works.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3735&source_type=A (748 words)

	DanceWorks SideSteps - People: Martha Graham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		If Graham ever gave birth, one critic quipped, it would be to a cube; instead, she became the mother of American dance.
		Graham was far from the first dancer to rip off her toe shoes and break with the rigid conventions of 19th century ballet.
		It was the first dance performance of any kind that Graham had ever seen, and it overwhelmed her; overcoming parental restraint, in 1916 Graham enrolled in the Denishawn Studio, the school and performing troupe that St.
	www.danceworksonline.co.uk /sidesteps/people/graham.htm (559 words)

	OMM Prevails Against Martha Graham Trademark Claims
		Representing the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance and the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, O’Melveny and Myers successfully defended against four claims of trademark infringement brought against the organizations by Ron Protas, Martha Graham’s heir and a former board member and employee of the Martha Graham Center and Martha Graham School.
		Importantly, the Judge found that Graham intended that the Martha Graham Center and Martha Graham School continue after her death and that Protas’ actions were undermining Graham’s intentions.
		Martha Graham, who is considered to be the founder of modern dance and is a recipient of the Medal of Freedom and National Medal of Arts, created some 181 ballets during her lifetime.
	www.omm.com /communication/2001/august27/graham_latest.html (680 words)

	londondance.com : The Martha Graham Legacy.
		There was never any doubt about the quality of Martha Graham's work; as a dancer and choreographer she was an all-American superstar, adored and lampooned in equal measure.
		With Graham's legacy secure, the question remains as to why she would place her reputation in such an unsafe pair of hands as Protas's proved to be.
		Graham's by no means the only artist to sabotage their own reputation with a bad choice of friends - but even in notoriously bitchy ballet circles, this is a spectacular falling out.
	www.londondance.com /content/1300/the_martha_graham_legacy (1223 words)

	BookRags: Martha Graham Biography
		Martha Graham was born in a suburb of Pittsburgh, PA, in May, 1894.
		The purpose of Graham's dance was to evoke a heightened awareness of life, to develop psychological insights about the nature of man. Dance was to her an "inner emotional experience." Her themes were often overtly psychological.
		With the later establishment of the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York, she taught a large number of modern dancers who have spread her ideas, techniques, and style to the rest of the world.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/martha-graham (833 words)

	B.co Martha Graham Court Hearings
		The bitter court case over the ownership of Martha Graham’s ballets has ended with a substantial win for the centre and school that bears her name and a comprehensive defeat for Graham’s heir and late life confidante, Ron Protas.
		In his view the judgement meant that Martha Graham had been “nothing more than a hired hand of the foundation that had been created to serve her needs.” He said other choreographers should be ‘quaking in their slippers’ at the implications.
		Martha Graham was relatively uninterested in the fate of her dances after her death and her will is uncomplicated in its structure and language.
	www.ballet.co.uk /magazines/yr_02/sep02/bmc_martha_graham.htm (1408 words)

	MARTHA GRAHAM’S LEGACY
		Thus the reemergence of the Martha Graham Dance Company for a two-week season at the Joyce Theater, after a four year hiatus filled with legal battles, was a special occasion.
		She is the quintessential pioneer woman, strong and fearless, and Graham was to embody her several more times in different ways in her pursuit of what was American to her.
		The courts finally decided that Graham had given the Center the right to use her name as long as it existed and that she had sold the proprietorship of the School to the institution itself.
	www.arttimesjournal.com /dance/grahamfour.htm (1367 words)

	StreetSwing's Dance Book Store - Martha Graham - Page1
		Graham was a dancer, choreographer, and teacher for more than 70 years, and during that time she changed the landscape of dance forever.
		Dancer/choreographer Martha Graham was utterly different to different people in different circumstances and at different times in her sweeping career.
		Graham's vision was so focused that she was unaware of, or thought unimportant, the surroundings, players, intrigues; she was also extremely private.
	www.streetswing.com /shop/mainframe/bk-dnc-graham1.htm (708 words)

	Indisputably Martha Graham
		This Spring's Dance Insider coverage of Martha Graham is also sponsored by Nancy Reynolds, Doug Frank, Nora Ambrosio and Slippery Rock University, Karen Bradley, Barry Fischer and Frostburg State University, the Arts Paper, Scott Killian, Sharon Montella and Pine Manor College, Toba Singer, Esaias Johnson, Alice Helpern, and several anonymous donors.
		Martha herself was present offstage last night in both her serious and fun sides.
		Martha Graham, freed temporarily from the restraints of courtroom battles, possessed many bodies on and off the stage last night.
	www.danceinsider.com /f2002/f0510_2.html (1242 words)

	Martha Graham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Martha Graham was born in 1894 in Allegheny, Pennsylania.
		Graham joined Denishawn, a dance school owned by St. Denis and her husband.
		However, Graham’s downfall was her desire to be remembered as only a dancer; her refusal to allow younger dancers to take over her solos caused her to substitute several movements, leading to a slew of pieces that would not be remembered from 1950 until her death.
	www.tcnj.edu /~levine2/dancedomain/marthagraham (262 words)

	Martha Graham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Martha Graham was one of the most famous dancers in the United States.
		Martha Graham was born on May 11, 1893 in Pittsburgh, Pennysylvania.
		Martha started her own dance company in New York City in 1929, The Martha Graham Dance Company.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/womenenc/graham.htm (206 words)

	Amazon.ca: Blood Memory: Books: Martha Graham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		When asked whether she wanted to be remembered as a dancer or choreographer, Martha replied, "As a dancer, of course!" And so I will refer to this as the memoir of a dancer who, by her own description, did not "choreograph," but simply made up dances.
		Martha most likely had no concept of linear, but being an artist she probably lived in a circular world where beginnings were endings and endings were middles.
		My favorite story is about the time Martha and her sister Gertie, both of whom were members of the legendary Denishawn dance school and company, were thrown off of a train.
	www.amazon.ca /Blood-Memory-Martha-Graham/dp/0385265034 (972 words)

	TIME 100: Martha Graham
		But it was her homegrown technique — the fierce pelvic contractions, the rugged "floor work" that startled those who took for granted that real dancers soared through the air — that caught on, becoming the cornerstone of postwar modern dance.
		Born in 1894 in Allegheny, Pa., Graham moved with her family to California when she was 14.
		It was the first dance performance of any kind that Graham had ever seen, and it overwhelmed her; in 1916 she joined Denishawn, the school and performing troupe that St. Denis co-led with her husband Ted Shawn.
	www.time.com /time/time100/artists/profile/graham.html (427 words)

	Martha Graham Dance Company
		Founded in 1926 by dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, the Martha Graham Dance Company is the oldest and most celebrated contemporary dance company in America.
		Though Martha Graham herself is the best-known alumna of her company, having danced from the Company's inception until the late 1960's, the Company has provided a training ground for some of modern dance's most illustrious performers and choreographers.
		The Martha Graham Dance Company even numbers among its alumnae one Betty Bloomer, who, after dancing with the Company in 1938, became better known as First Lady Betty Ford.
	marthagraham.org /company (364 words)

	Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Martha Graham Dance Company, founded by Martha Graham in 1926, is the oldest, most celebrated modern dance company in the world.
		The Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance is the global center for instruction in the Martha Graham Technique and has provided instruction to thousands of students including such luminaries as Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Madonna, and Betty Ford.
		Martha Graham Resources oversees licensing of the Graham repertory, access to archives that comprise one of the world's great collections of dance history, and arts education programs that travel with the Company around the world.
	www.marthagrahamdance.org (210 words)

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