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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Time magazine called her “the Dancer of the Century.” Her technique, used by dance companies throughout the world, became the first long-lasting alternative to the idiom of classical ballet. Her pioneering movements—powerful, dynamic, jagged, edgy, forthright—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...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"The definitive biography of dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, one of the great American artists of the twentieth century"--
"n the pantheon of American modernists, few figures loom larger than Martha Graham. One of the greatest choreographers ever to live, Graham pioneered a revolutionary dance technique — primal, dynamic, and rooted in the emotional life of the body—that upended traditional vocabulary and shaped generations of dancers...
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