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Author : Marian Horosko
Publisher : A Cappella Books (IL)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Martha Graham written by Marian Horosko and published by A Cappella Books (IL). This book was released on 1991 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the development of Martha Graham's dance theory and training.
Author : Russell Freedman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395746554
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (465 download)
Download or read book Martha Graham written by Russell Freedman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photo-biography of the American dancer, teacher, and choreographer who was born in Pittsburgh in 1895 and who became a leading figure in the world of modern dance.
Author : Stuart Hodes
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813065445
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Onstage with Martha Graham written by Stuart Hodes and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When World War II was over, a young bomber pilot with an itch for movement and action hung up his cap and learned another way to fly. Onstage with Martha Graham is the story of Stuart Hodes, a versatile and influential dancer who got his start with Martha Graham, an icon of modern dance. His memoir is a rare firsthand view of the dance world in the 1940s and through the end of the twentieth century. One of the few male dancers in Graham’s company—and in the New York dance scene at the time—Hodes offers a unique perspective and a one-of-a-kind narrative. He describes how he fell into the art by chance, happening to walk into Graham’s studio one day. He was soon hooked. He documents his experiences, travels, passions, and loves while learning from and performing with Graham, during which time he saw most of the United States, much of Europe, and some of Asia. Advancing quickly, he eventually danced as Graham’s partner in Appalachian Spring, Deaths and Entrances, Every Soul Is a Circus, and Errand into the Maze. In his portrait of Martha Graham, who was the center of his dancing world, Hodes recounts conversations, revelations, bouts of temper and creativity, the daily ritual of deeply physical dancing, and the never-ending search for artistic validity. Direct, often humorous, and always authentic, Hodes shares his delight in dance as both hard work and a fantastic adventure.
Author : Agnes De Mille
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9780091752194
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (521 download)
Download or read book Martha written by Agnes De Mille and published by Arrow. This book was released on 1992 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victoria Phillips
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190610360
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Martha Graham's Cold War written by Victoria Phillips and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2013, titled Strange commodity of cultural exchange: Martha Graham and the State Department on tour, 1955-1987.
Author : Jan Greenberg
Publisher : Flash Point
ISBN 13 : 1466818611
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Ballet for Martha written by Jan Greenberg and published by Flash Point. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book about the making of Martha Graham's Appalachian Spring, her most famous dance performance Martha Graham : trailblazing choreographer Aaron Copland : distinguished American composer Isamu Noguchi : artist, sculptor, craftsman Award-winning authors Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan tell the story behind the scenes of the collaboration that created APPALACHIAN SPRING, from its inception through the score's composition to Martha's intense rehearsal process. The authors' collaborator is two-time Sibert Honor winner Brian Floca, whose vivid watercolors bring both the process and the performance to life.
Author : Julia L. Foulkes
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807862025
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Modern Bodies written by Julia L. Foulkes and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-11-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1930, dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of "dance as an art of and from America." Dancers such as Doris Humphrey, Ted Shawn, Katherine Dunham, and Helen Tamiris joined Graham in creating a new form of dance, and, like other modernists, they experimented with and argued over their aesthetic innovations, to which they assigned great meaning. Their innovations, however, went beyond aesthetics. While modern dancers devised new ways of moving bodies in accordance with many modernist principles, their artistry was indelibly shaped by their place in society. Modern dance was distinct from other artistic genres in terms of the people it attracted: white women (many of whom were Jewish), gay men, and African American men and women. Women held leading roles in the development of modern dance on stage and off; gay men recast the effeminacy often associated with dance into a hardened, heroic, American athleticism; and African Americans contributed elements of social, African, and Caribbean dance, even as their undervalued role defined the limits of modern dancers' communal visions. Through their art, modern dancers challenged conventional roles and images of gender, sexuality, race, class, and regionalism with a view of American democracy that was confrontational and participatory, authorial and populist. Modern Bodies exposes the social dynamics that shaped American modernism and moved modern dance to the edges of society, a place both provocative and perilous.
Author : Blakeley White-McGuire
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350145890
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Martha Graham Dance Company written by Blakeley White-McGuire and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the legacy of Martha Graham and why does it endure? How and why did the philosophy and subsequent canon of Martha Graham flood out into an artistic diaspora that is still a wellspring of inspiration for contemporary artists? How do dancers that have never studied with, or worked under, Martha Graham maintain her vision? All of these questions, and many more, are considered in this fascinating book, authored by one of the Martha Graham Company's ex-principal dancers, which illuminates the ongoing significance of the Martha Graham Dance Company almost 100 years after it was founded. Through doing so, we are offered a study of the history of the Martha Graham Dance Company - the longest-standing modern dance company in America, its international diaspora and the current generation of dancers taking up the mantel. Drawing on extensive interviews conducted for the book, the company's story is told through the experiences, inspirations, motivations and words of performers from Graham's iconic artistic lineage.
Author : Marian Horosko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813024738
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Martha Graham written by Marian Horosko and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Focuses on the celebrated technique, though the stuff of memoir naturally seeps in as well . . . . The illuminating, aphoristic comments appended to specific exercises recall the rich verbal imagery Graham employed, famously, in her teaching."--Los Angeles Times "The only book in print with a syllabus of her movements (including advanced work)."--Dancer"Recommended for all dance and theater collections . . . . Invaluable."--Backstage Marian Horosko brings together new and previously published interviews of Martha Graham's "family" of dancers, teachers, choreographers, and actors and interweaves them with provocative biographical material about the life and influence of the creator of classic modern dance. The interviews testify to the remarkable legacy that inspired the careers of many in the dance world, among them dancers from the contemporary generation who inherited her technique but never saw her perform. The interviews of teachers, all former Graham students, reflect their passion for maintaining Graham's few fixed principles and her emotional integrity. Some of the foremost actors of Graham's time describe their stormy encounters with her as she attempted to teach them that "movement doesn't lie." This book offers the only syllabus in print of Graham's work. Drawn from a private film of a class for her advanced and professional company members in the 1960s, it includes comments from Graham and speaks to her use of imagery in teaching. Detailed photographs document the development of Graham's choreographic legacy, which expanded and changed as she created each new work, more than 200 in all. These images, along with the interviews and commentary, plot the evolution of Graham's methodology and vocabulary of movement, on which classical modern dance continues to rely.
Author : Ernestine Stodelle
Publisher : Schirmer Trade Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Deep Song written by Ernestine Stodelle and published by Schirmer Trade Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dance Horizons book.
Author : Martha Graham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780788166853
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Blood Memory written by Martha Graham and published by . This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martha Graham, dancer, choreographer, & teacher, has been called the most important & influential American artist ever born. From her birth in 1894 to her death in 1991, she remained an uncompromising individualist who sought nothing less than to map the mysterious landscape of the human soul. This book is Graham's own account of her life & career. Contains portraits of artists & innovators she has worked with: Louise Brooks, Helen Keller, Aaron Copland, Isamu Noguchi, plus students: Gregory Peck, Bette Davis, Rudolf Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Liza Minnelli, & Madonna. More than 100 photos.
Author : Robert Tracy
Publisher : Amadeus Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Goddess written by Robert Tracy and published by Amadeus Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Goddess more than 30 Martha Graham dancers recall the complex experience of studying, working and performing with this small giant of a woman. They represent all the decades of the Graham era, from the twenties into the nineties, and their commentary illuminates the creation and performance of such now classic Graham works as Heretic, Primitive Mysteries, Letter to the World, Deaths and Entrances, Herodiade, Appalachian Spring, Dark Meadow, Cave of the Heart, Night Journey, Diversion of Angels and Clytemnestra. As the artists relive their time with Graham, their words and voices sound with stunning authenticity, while the incidents and the emotions they remember range from moments of exaltation and exhilaration to those of humiliation and fury. Throughout this remarkable oral history, legendary dancers show us Martha Graham as she has never been seen before - at work and in love, giving and demanding, inspiring and imperious, and as a presence that will always be with them.
Author : Alice J. Halpern
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (259 download)
Download or read book The Technique of Martha Graham written by Alice J. Halpern and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Franko
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199777667
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Martha Graham in Love and War written by Mark Franko and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often called the Picasso, Stravinksy, or Frank Lloyd Wright of the dance world, Martha Graham revolutionized ballet stages across the globe. Here, Franko reframes Graham's most famous creations by showing how she wove together strands of love passion, politics, and myth to create an American school of choreography and dance.
Author : John Deane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813029924
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Acts of Light written by John Deane and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The breathtaking images in Acts of Light are the result of John Deane's unprecedented access as a promotional photographer for the Martha Graham Dance Company. The first book to comprehensively survey Graham's dances in full color digital photography, it also features personal interviews with this new generation of Graham interpreters, who reflect on their own lives, the meaning each dance has for them personally, and the Graham technique in frank and touching style. Dancers reveal how they approach now-classic works and personalize their interpretations, coming to them with a new sensibility and unique life experiences. The 18 featured works range from the Greek cycle and biblically inspired ballets through abstract studies of tragedy and hope, considerations of loss incurred in wartime, and literary speculations like Deaths and Entrances, a recently revived work on the Bronte sisters. Deane and Cano give special consideration to the beloved American masterwork Graham created in collaboration with composer Aaron Copland--Appalachian Spring.
Author : Trudy Garfunkel
Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316304139
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Letter to the World written by Trudy Garfunkel and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1995 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how Martha Graham became interested in dance as a child, recounts her dance training and professional career, and assesses her impact on modern dance
Author : Barbara Brooks Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Martha Graham written by Barbara Brooks Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
