By Brian Seibert When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. MARTHA GRAHAM ... the kinetic force of Graham’s technique and design ...

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 ...

Apart from choreographing various ground-breaking performances, Martha Graham also developed a dance technique based on ...

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 ...

Martha Graham's dance, Letter to the World, depicted the life of Emily Dickinson. Martha Graham played the role of Emily Dickinson. Little more than a half-mile separates the 19 th-century North ...

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 ...

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 ...

Annie-B Parson’s new book, The Choreography of Everyday Life ... Reproduced with permission of Martha Graham Resources; Janet Morgan / The Barbara Morgan Archive; Library of Congress Baldwin ...

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 ...

Graham’s legacy lives in her technique, the choreography that has been pieced together over the years (particularly with the Martha Graham Dance Company) and the memories people hold onto.

“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 ...