Blood Memory
Memoir
By: Martha Graham
Date: 1991
Source: Blood Memory. New York: Doubleday, 1991.
About the Author: Martha Graham (1894–1991)—;dancer, choreographer, teacher—;was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in 1894 and later moved with her family to California. She began her training relatively late; it was after seeing a performance by modern dance pioneer Ruth St. Denis in 1912 that Graham aspired to become a dancer herself. She established the Martha Graham Contemporary Dance School in New York in 1927. Graham retired from dancing in 1969 but kept choreographing. She died at the age of ninety-six.
Introduction
Martha Graham's father was a psychiatrist. She always remembered how he had talked to her about how the body's movements indicate inner emotions. In 1916, Graham enrolled in Ruth St. Denis's school, the Denishawn School of Dancing. Denishawn was...
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