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1. Martha Graham was an American dancer and choreographer. (Web site)
2. Martha Graham was one of the most famous dancers and creators of dance, called choreographers. (Web site)
3. Martha Graham was born in 1894 in a small city outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Web site)
4. Martha Graham was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, a small town that is now part of Pittsburgh. (Web site)
5. Martha Graham was a pioneer of modern dance and one of the most influential choreographers of the 20th century. (Web site)

Graham Dance

1. MIKI ORIHARA, a principal dancer of the Martha Graham Dance Company, began her training in Japan at an early age in traditional Fujima Japanese Dance.
2. He began his professional career in dance when he joined the Martha Graham Dance Company in 1946.
3. DONLIN FOREMAN is a 20-year veteran principle dancer of the Martha Graham Dance Company.
4. Cynthia Gregory shares her shot with her dog, and Yuriko stands under a Barbara Morgan picture of her mentor and inspiration, Martha Graham. (Web site)
5. In 1926, Martha Graham founded her dance company and school, living and working out of a tiny Carnegie Hall studio in midtown Manhattan.

Dance Company

1. The Martha Graham Dance Company, founded by Martha Graham in 1926, is the oldest, most celebrated modern dance company in the world.
2. In 1926 Martha Graham founded her dance company and school, living and working out of a tiny Carnegie Hall studio in midtown Manhattan. (Web site)
3. She studied with Martha Graham and Pearl Lang, and later performed with several modern dance companies, including Alvin Ailey and the Walter Nicks dancers.
4. She studied with Martha Graham and Pearl Lang, and later performed with several modern dance companies, including Alvin Ailey and the Walter Nicks dancers.
5. Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman were all pupils at the school and members of the dance company. (Web site)

Merce Cunningham

1. Merce Cunningham - a former ballet student and performer with Martha Graham, he presented his first New York solo concert with John Cage in 1944. (Web site)
2. Rhythmic subjects: uses of energy in the dances of Mary Wigman, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham.
3. She began attending every dance concert she could and studied with Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, and Eugene "Luigi" Lewis, the jazz teacher. (Web site)
4. Much like Martha Graham did in Contemporary Ballet, Jazz dancers usually dance barefoot in their choreography. (Web site)

Modern Dance

1. De Mille was a lifelong friend of modern dance legend Martha Graham.
2. Balanchine also worked with modern dance choreographer Martha Graham, expanding his exposure to modern techniques and ideas. (Web site)
3. For anyone who is reading this who does not know, Martha Graham is a MAJOR modern dance pioneer.
4. These companies are created utilizing techniques from historic modern dance figures such as Martha Graham, Isadora Duncan and Merce Cunningham. (Web site)
5. VHS SUMMARY: Reviews the history of modern dance in America from its beginnings in the early 1900's to the appearance of Martha Graham in the early 1930's. (Web site)

Artistic

1. But his closest association was with Martha Graham, whose artistic vision he remained devoted to throughout his lifetime. (Web site)
2. The standard of artistic excellence established by Martha Graham continues through the work of Artistic Directors Christine Dakin and Terese Capucilli. (Web site)

Louis Horst

1. Anna Sokolow - a student of Martha Graham and Louis Horst, Sokolow created her own dance company (circa 1930). (Web site)
2. Anna Sokolow - a student of Martha Graham and Louis Horst, Sokolow created her own dance company (circa 1930). (Web site)
3. She began her dance training with Martha Graham and Louis Horst at the Neighborhood Playhouse.
4. I had to. I was at Juilliard, and before that, I studied with a very famous choreographer teacher named Louis Horst, who was Martha Graham's musical mentor.
5. Danz-- inoltre con la compagnia di Martha Graham, di Doris Humprey e Jos-- Lim--n. (Web site)

Dancer

1. Martha Graham choreographed 181 works in her lifetime.
2. Encouraged by Campbell to develop her work, Erdman left Martha Graham in 1944 to form her own company, the Jean Erdman Dance Group.
3. She is on the faculties of the Juilliard School and the Martha Graham School. (Web site)
4. Martha Graham, Rudolf Nureyev, and Jose Limon all started training in their teens or later.
5. In 1916, claiming that at twenty-two her new pupil was too old to ever become a good dancer, Ruth-St--Denis took little interest in Martha Graham.

Graham School

1. He received a grant from the French Ministry of Culture to study at the Martha Graham School in 1997.
2. She is on the faculties of the Juilliard School and the Martha Graham School. (Web site)
3. Paper, 15.00 Horosko, Marian: Martha Graham, the evolution of her dance theory and training.
4. She was awarded a Coca Cola Scholarship in 2000 to begin training at the Martha Graham School.
5. Orbs (1966) harks back to the wedding scene in Martha Graham's landmark Appalachian Spring.

Works

1. He studied modern and classical dance with such legendary teachers as Hanya Holm, Martha Graham, Antony Tudor and Margaret Craske. (Web site)
2. She may have created many of her works while she was an employee of the Martha Graham Center. (Web site)
3. More » Martha Graham Martha Graham , an American dancer and choreographer, is known as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance.
4. The Martha Graham School captured in session in New York City, just after a federal court confirmed its right to its name.
5. In the upcoming case in Federal District Court, just who owns the rights to the works of Martha Graham is likely to be the central question.

Th Century

1. Danz-- inoltre con la compagnia di Martha Graham, di Doris Humprey e Jos-- Lim--n. (Web site)
2. Each summer during this time she studied under Martha Graham at the Bennington College Summer School of Dance.
3. Nearly single-handedly Martha Graham brought dance into the 20th century.
4. Martha Graham is recognized as a primal artistic force of the 20th Century alongside Picasso, Stravinsky, James Joyce, and Frank Lloyd Wright.

American Dancer

1. Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American dancer and choreographer. (Web site)
2. Ms. Birch was a leading soloist with the Martha Graham Co.
3. In 1939 he joined Martha Graham 's company, where he created roles in several of her works. (Web site)
4. Martha Graham ( May 11 , 1894 - April 1 , 1991 ), an American dancer and choreographer , is known as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance .
5. Martha Graham (1894-1991), American dancer, choreographer, and teacher, was the world's leading exponent of modern dance. (Web site)

Graham Company

1. How Yuriko came to join Martha Graham is a fascinating story.
2. Martha Graham choreographed 181 works in her lifetime.
3. He also took classes with Martha Graham, never letting on to her - or to Holm - that he was, meanwhile, studying ballet.
4. Cunningham studied with Martha Graham and was a soloist in her company from 1940 to 1955. (Web site)
5. Presents Martha Graham and her company in a dance interpretation of Joan of Arc. (Web site)

Modern Dancer

1. Many of the great modern and ballet choreographers have studied the Martha Graham Technique or have been members of her company.
2. The next year, Hawkins was the first man to dance with the company of the famous modern dancer and choreographer Martha Graham. (Web site)
3. Terese Capucilli is an American modern dancer best known for her work with the Martha Graham Dance Company. (Web site)

Contemporary Dance

1. Opening the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in 1929, Graham choreographed her first non-solo ballet, Heretic, two years later. (Web site)
2. In New York, he also studied at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and was a scholarship student at the American Dance Center.
3. May O`Donnell (1906-2004) was one of the Martha Graham Contemporary Dance Company's most successful soloists during its pioneer days.

Horosko

1. Ailes told Marion Horosko that she introduced Martha Graham to her brother, Isamu, in 1929.
2. Paper, 15.00 Horosko, Marian: Martha Graham, the evolution of her dance theory and training.

Theater

1. He worked with dance troupes as diverse as Martha Graham's and the Nederlands Dans Theater.
2. A roughly chronological consideration of highlights include works by the New York City Ballet, Martha Graham and the American Ballet Theater.

Protas

1. In her will, Martha Graham appeared to leave her ballets to Protas. (Web site)
2. The Martha Graham School and Center is contesting the rights to her work against Ron Protas, Graham-s late-life confidante. (Web site)

Century

1. Nearly single-handedly Martha Graham brought dance into the 20th century.
2. Martha Graham died on April 1, 1991, known as one of the twentieth century's revolutionary artists. (Web site)
3. One of the prot--g--s of the Denishawn Company, Martha Graham became one of the most influential figures of the first half of the twentieth century. (Web site)
4. Martha Graham is recognized as a primal artistic force of the 20th Century alongside Picasso, Stravinsky, James Joyce, and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Coca Cola

1. She was awarded a Coca Cola Scholarship in 2000 to begin training at the Martha Graham School.
2. She began attending every dance concert she could and studied with Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, and Eugene "Luigi" Lewis, the jazz teacher. (Web site)
3. A student of Ballet Nacional de Mexico, she received a government grant and a Coca Cola Scholarship for study at the Martha Graham School.

Choreographer

1. Agnes de Mille was a lifelong friend of modern dance legend Martha Graham. (Web site)
2. How Yuriko came to join Martha Graham is a fascinating story.
3. De Mille was a lifelong friend of modern dance legend Martha Graham.
4. Balanchine also worked with modern dance choreographer Martha Graham, expanding his exposure to modern techniques and ideas. (Web site)
5. Martha Graham's technique is at the base of the spine of Modern Dance.

Martha Graham

1. Anna Sokolow - a student of Martha Graham and Louis Horst, Sokolow created her own dance company (circa 1930). (Web site)
2. Alvin Ailey - a student of Lester Horton (and later Martha Graham) Ailey spent several years working in both concert and theatre dance. (Web site)
3. Merce Cunningham - a former ballet student and performer with Martha Graham, he presented his first New York solo concert with John Cage in 1944. (Web site)
4. She was one of the first members of Martha Graham 's dance company.[ citation needed] Ailes' older brother was Isamu Noguchi, an American sculptor. (Web site)
5. Alvin Ailey - a student of Lester Horton (and later Martha Graham) Ailey spent several years working in both concert and theatre dance. (Web site)

Hanya Holm

1. He studied modern and classical dance with such legendary teachers as Hanya Holm, Martha Graham, Antony Tudor and Margaret Craske.
2. Cleveland. He studied in New York City with Hanya Holm and trained with Martha Graham, subsequently dancing (1958–59) with her company.
3. In 1946 Tetley began training in modern dance with Hanya Holm and Martha Graham. (Web site)

George Balanchine

1. Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance.
2. Performing in the companies of Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, and George Balanchine (in that order), he founded the Paul Taylor Dance Company in 1954. (Web site)
3. Erick Hawkins - a student of George Balanchine Hawkins became a soloist and the first male dancer in Martha Graham's dance company. (Web site)
4. Erick Hawkins - a student of George Balanchine Hawkins became a soloist and the first male dancer in Martha Graham's dance company. (Web site)
5. Performing in the companies of Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, and George Balanchine (in that order), he founded the Paul Taylor Dance Company in 1954. (Web site)

Own Company

1. He was a soloist in Martha Graham's troupe before forming his own company.
2. Merce Cunningham - a former ballet student and performer with Martha Graham, he presented his first New York solo concert with John Cage in 1944. (Web site)

Artistic Director

1. In 1991, she became associate artistic director of the Martha Graham company, but left two years later to pursue independent projects.
2. For 75 years, the 92nd Street Y has supported, presented and taught dance, creating a home for everyone from Martha Graham to your daughter.

American Modern Dance

1. In her autobiography Blood Memory Martha Graham writes that she trained Protas in her dance technique and that he will be her heir upon her death.

Ailey School

1. After seeing the Martha Graham Dance Company perform for the first time Dove was exhilarated and decided on a dance career. (Web site)
2. A fellowship student at The Ailey School, he also toured nationally with the Martha Graham Ensemble. (Web site)

Dances

1. The Balanchine ballet dances are performed by modern dancers such as Paul Taylor and Martha Graham.

Ailey

1. Alvin Ailey - a student of Lester Horton, Bella Lewitzky (and later Martha Graham) Ailey spent several years working in both concert and theatre dance. (Web site)
2. When the Martha Graham Dance Company opens at New York's Joyce Theater on Tuesday evening, the program's centerpiece will be a new work that.

Dancers

1. Ron Protas is the former Associate Director of the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance and heir of modern dance choreographer Martha Graham. (Web site)
2. The Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance was opened in 1926 and by 1939, her modern dance company began touring the United States and Cuba. (Web site)
3. Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis used more flowing movements in their dances, while Martha Graham was the pioneer in the form of angular dance. (Web site)

Graham Technique

1. At Sarah Lawrence College, Erdman majored in dance and theatre, meeting a guest teacher who had a great impact on her life: Martha Graham.

Dancing

1. Cleveland. He studied in New York City with Hanya Holm and trained with Martha Graham, subsequently dancing (1958-59) with her company. (Web site)
2. Martha Graham started dancing in 1916 with the Denishawn company, and she began her independent career in 1926 in New York City.

Appalachian Spring

1. In seven decades as a dancer and choreographer, Martha Graham created 181 ballets. (Web site)
2. The commission for Appalachian Spring came from Martha Graham, who had requested of Copland merely "music for an American ballet".
3. Vera Wang garnered inspiration from the Ballets Russes and Martha Graham, crafting layered looks from lightweight silk and linen.

Paul Taylor

1. Denis, Martha Graham, and George Balanchine are just a few of those touched and changed by Pilates work. (Web site)

Lester Horton

1. Alvin Ailey - A student of Lester Horton, Bella Lewitzky, and later Martha Graham, Ailey spent several years working in both concert and theater dance. (Web site)
2. Her students have joined the dance companies of Paul Taylor, Martha Graham, Alwin Nikolais, and Bella Lewitzky, as well as Pilobolus and Momix. (Web site)

Nureyev

1. Unlike choreographers such as Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, or José Limon, he would not have his namesake dance company continue in perpetuity.
2. Nureyev's capabilities also extended to modern repertoires, and he performed in works by Martha Graham, Murray Louis, and Paul Taylor.

Fonteyn

1. Fonteyn also worked with the choreographer Roland Petit and later in life, Martha Graham. (Web site)
2. Robert Cohan is from America and began his dance career studying with Martha Graham in her company from 1946-47 (then later 1962-69).
3. Robert Cohan talks to Margot Fonteyn about Martha Graham, followed by an excerpt of Robert North's Troy Game, originally made for LCDT in 1974. (Web site)

Erdman

1. Jean Erdman was a choreographer and onetime member of the dance ensemble led by Martha Graham. (Web site)
2. Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein invited Martha Graham to choreograph a joint work using all of Webern's orchestral pieces.

Denishawn

1. One of her more famous pupils was Martha Graham, who attended Ms. St. Denis' school of dance, Denishawn, that she had started with her husband, Ted Shawn.
2. Perhaps the best known figure in modern dance, Martha Graham, was a pupil of pioneer Ruth St. Denis. (Web site)

Doris Humphrey

1. Ballet Caravan debuted at Bennington College in 1936 with the modern dance company of Martha Graham.
2. Martha Graham developed a dance technique that broke the mold of classical ballet and pioneered the field of modern dance.
3. They included Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman (all of whom had danced with Denishawn) and Hanya Holm, who came from Mary Wigman's company. (Web site)

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