Books in Review Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern By Neil ... and popular culture of the United States to craft her technique, transcending the strictures of European ballet.

I settled into position in the Bob Hope Theater and prepared to watch from behind the curtain as upperclassmen dance majors ...

Before her death in 1991, Martha Graham gave a videotaped ... Where there is no technique, the vision perishes. Graham demanded perfection, again and again, no exceptions. Her obsession with ...

and writer of a clutch of valuable books; her long marriage to a composer; and her deep familiarity with both the Southern California environment that nurtured Martha Graham and the New York City ...

A new coffee table book ... Martha Graham founded her dance company and school while living and working out of a tiny Carnegie Hall studio in midtown Manhattan. In developing her technique ...

“I went to Juilliard the next year and was required to take the Martha Graham technique,” she says. “And really didn’t get it. Skipped all my Graham classes my freshman year. I had to ...

Once, as a child playing in her nursery, Martha Graham tried to improve the lighting in a cardboard theater by striking a match. When the whole set burst into flames, young Martha nimbly smothered ...

She emerged as a celebrated and versatile dancer for Martha Graham ... represents about as authentic an incarnation of the Graham technique and idiom as one could expect to find outside the ...

With this framing, Baldwin’s book is in contrast ... He examines how Martha Graham channeled her ambition and intellect into movement technique—especially that involving movements of ...