| Cover title |
Martha Graham : a life : when dance became modern |
| Contents |
Introduction: the legacy begins -- Pittsburgh -- Santa Barbara -- Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn: the Denishawn Dancers -- Horst -- Schopenhauer and Nietzsche -- Kandinsky and Isadora Duncan -- The Eastman School -- From Mariarden to John Martin -- Neighborhood Playhouse -- Heretic -- Dance Repertory Theatre and Lamentation -- Introducing: Isamu Noguchi -- League of Composers and The Rite of Spring in America -- Northwest to Southwest -- Know the land -- Primitive Mysteries -- "We will never understand one another" -- From Ceremonials to Radio City Music Hall -- The American rhythm -- Airborne -- Erick Hawkins and Lincoln Kirstein -- Interlude: Chronicle -- American Document -- Every Soul Is a Circus -- Deaths and Entrances: ten characters in search of a dance -- Interlude: Appalachian Spring -- Dark Meadow -- Serpent Heart -- The "break-up" -- Horst revisited -- Eye of Anguish -- The choice -- Coda. |
| Abstract |
"A biography of the legendary dancer and choreographer"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Abstract |
At the heart of Martha Graham's work was movement that could express inner feeling. Her technique, used by dance companies throughout the world, became the first long-lasting alternative to the idiom of classical ballet. Her pioneering movements combined with her distinctive system of training, were the epitome of American modernism, performance as art. Her work continued to astonish and inspire for more than sixty years as she choreographed more than 180 works. The company she founded in 1926 is now the longest-running dance company in America. Baldwin writes of how the company flourished, and of how Graham inspired the next generation of dancers, choreographers, and teachers. -- adapted from jacket |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 416-527) and index. |
| Genre/form | Biographies |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| LCCN | 2021047232 |
| ISBN | 9780385352321 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0385352328 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| Standard identifier# |
40031476521 |
