Martha Graham
American modern dancer and choreographer. Founder of the Martha Graham Dance Company. Inventor of the contraction-and-release technique that bears her name. Choreographer for seventy years.
Martha Graham
Ask Martha Graham about modern dance, contraction and release, and choreography for life. Step into the technique with the mother of modern American dance.
American modern dancer and choreographer. Founder of the Martha Graham Dance Company. Inventor of the contraction-and-release technique that bears her name. Choreographer for seventy years.
- Born
- 1894
- Died
- 1991
- Birthplace
- Allegheny, Pittsburgh
- Nationality
- United States
What Martha Graham can help you think about
Martha Graham is a fitting guide when your questions touch dancers & choreographers. Bring whatever you're untangling — a decision you're weighing, a doubt you're sitting with, a problem that won't loosen — and let the conversation move from there.
The answers draw on the shape of Martha Graham's thinking across work like Appalachian Spring, Lamentation, and Night Journey — translated into a voice you can actually talk back to.
Ask plainly. Push back. Follow a thread until it goes somewhere. This isn't a lookup — it's a conversation with a mentor who's already done the thinking you're about to do.
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