Frontiers of Dance (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Walter Terry
- First Published: 1975
- Time of Work: 1894–1975
- Setting: Pennsylvania, California, New York, Europe, and Asia
- Principal Characters: Martha Graham, Ruth St. Denis, Louis Horst, Erick Hawkins, Isadora Duncan, Doris Humphrey, Hanya Holm
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Dancing or dancers, Lectures or lecturing, Biography
- Locales: California, Europe, New York, Asia, Pennsylvania
Form and Content
The eleven chapters of Walter Terry’s biography Frontiers of Dance: The Life of Martha Graham chronicle Graham’s life—from her childhood in the early years of the twentieth century as the daughter of a doctor in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, through her triumphs as a dancer and choreographer, to her work as an emissary sent world-wide by the U.S. State Department when she was more than eighty years old. Terry’s personal friendship with Graham and his experience as a dance critic with the New York Herald Tribune and The Saturday Review...
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