PORTRAIT OF A LEADER
Martha Graham
The Artistic Leader
1894 - 1991
“I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer.” - Martha Graham
I. DISCOVERING BODILY EXPRESSION & ORIENTAL ART
A.Learns to Dance at Denishawn
B.Becomes a Dance Instructor
C.Greenwich Village Follies
on Broadway
D.Eastman School of Music in
Rochester, New York
II. LEARNING TO DANCE
& TEACH
A.Born in Allegheny County,
Pennsylvania, U.S.
B.“The body doesn’t lie”
C.Move to Santa Barbara/
Oriental Art
D.Attended Cumnock Junior
College
III. ESTABLISHING HERSELF
AS AN INDEPENDENT
ARTIST
A.Martha Graham School of
Contemporary Dance
B.Dances
Revolt
Heretic
Primitive Mysteries
Chronicle
C.Short Program at the
White House
D.Married & Divorced
Eric Hawkins
E.Cortège of Eagles-
Final Performance
IV. RECOGNIZED FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO CONTEMPORARY DANCE
A.Depression & Alcohol Abuse
B.Reclaimed Her Company
C.Maple Leaf Rag
D.Presidential Medal of Freedom
E.Kennedy Center Honors
F.National Medal of Arts
G.Died from pneumonia in 1991
H.Dancer of the Century