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Martha Graham

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Martha Graham was an American dancer and choreographer whose angular, contraction and release technique broke sharply from balletic tradition and became one of the founding vocabularies of American modern dance. Over a performing and choreographic career spanning more than sixty years, she built a company and a training system that shaped generations of dancers and choreographers who followed her.

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Birth Year
1894 1
Death Year
1991 1
Nationality
American 1
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1. Ballet and Modern Dance: A Concise History
Jack Anderson, Princeton Book Companychapter on the founders of American modern dance, section on Graham
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