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Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 - April 1, 1991) was an influential American modern dancer and choreographer. In 1926, the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance was established. In the following decades, it would help develop many of her famous proteges. In 1938, Graham became the first dancer to perform at the White House. In 1976, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Gerald Ford. Graham's influence on dance has been...
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"The definitive biography of dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, one of the great American artists of the twentieth century"--
"In the pantheon of American modernists, few figures loom larger than Martha Graham. One of the greatest choreographers ever to live, Graham pioneered a revolutionary dance technique -- primal, dynamic, and rooted in the emotional life of the body -- that upended traditional vocabulary and shaped generations of dancers...
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