Martha Graham

Choreographer, Award Winner

1894 – 1991

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Who was Martha Graham?

Martha Graham was an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso had on the modern visual arts, Stravinsky had on music, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture.

She danced and choreographed for over seventy years. Graham was the first dancer ever to perform at the White House, travel abroad as a cultural ambassador, and receive the highest civilian award of the USA: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In her lifetime she received honors ranging from the Key to the City of Paris to Japan's Imperial Order of the Precious Crown. She said, in the 1994 documentary "The Dancer Revealed", "I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable."

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Born
May 11, 1894
Allegheny County
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Nationality
  • United States of America
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Education
  • Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts
  • Santa Barbara High School
Lived in
  • Pittsburgh
  • Allegheny
Died
Apr 1, 1991
New York City

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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