Martha Graham

Martha Graham

1894 - 1911

Athlète de Dieu

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Martha Graham

1894 naissance, le 11 mai à Allegheny, Pennsylvanie

1916 - 1923 membre de la troupe Denishawn

1923 - 1926 danse au music hall et dans des comédies musicales

1926 premier récital personnel, à New York City

1929 lance sa propre compagnie à New York City

1934 ecommence à enseigner à l’école de danse moderne de Bennington College

1968 danse pour la dernière foissur scène, à 74 ans

1976 reçoit la médaille présidentielle de la liberté

1991 meurt le 1er avril à New York City à l’âge de 96 ans

Muray, Nickolas   American (b. Hungary, 1892-1965) Martha Graham , ca. 1922-1961 negative, gelatin on nitrocellulose sheet film

Chorale (1926- Franck) Three Gnossiennes (1926- Satie) Three poems of the East (1926- Horst) Heretic (1929- folklore) Lamentation (1930- Kodaly) Harlequinade (1930- Toch) Primitive Canticles (1931- Villa-Lobos) Primitive Mysteries (1931- Horst) Dance Songs (1932- Weisshauss) Ekstasis (1933- Engel) Frenetic Rhythms (1933) Celebration (1934- Horst) Transitions (1934- Engel) American Provincials (1934- Horst) Frontier (1935- Horst) Imperial Gesture (1935- Engel) Chronicle (1936- Riegger) Deep Song (1937- Cowell) American Document (1938- Green) Every Soul is a Circus (1939- Nordoff) Letter to the World (1940- Johnson) El Penitente (1940- Horst) Punch and Judy (1941- McBride) Death and Entrances (1943- Johnson) Herodiade (1944- Hindemith) Appalachian Spring (1944- Copland) Cave of the heart (1946- Barber) Dark Meadow (1946- Chavez) Errand into the Maze (1947- Menotti) Night Journey (1947- Schuman) Diversion of Angels (1948- Dello Joio) Judith (1950- Schuman)

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* Canticle for innocent comedians (1952- Ribbink) * Seraphic Dialogue (1955- Dello Joio) * Embattled Garden (1958- Surinach) * Clytemnestra (1958- El Dabh) * Episodes (1959- Webern) * Acrobats of God (1960- Surinach) * Alcestis (1960- Fine) * Phaedra (1962- Starer) * Secular games (1962- Starer) * Circe (1963- Hovhaness) * The Witch of Endor (1965- Schuman) * Cortege of Eagles (1967- Lester) * A Time of Snow (1968- Dello Joio) * The Lady of the House of Sleep (1968- Starer) * The Archaic Hours (1969- Lester) * Mendicants of evening (1973- Walker) * Myth of a Voyage (1973- Hovhaness) * Holy Jungle (1974- Starer) * Dream (1974- Seter) for the Batsheva Dance Company * Lucifer (1975- El Dabh) * The Scarlet Letter (1975- Johnson) * Frescoes (1978- Barber) * Judith (1980- Varèse) * Acts of Light (1981- Nielsen) * Andromache's Lament (1982- Barber) * Phaedra's Dream (1983- Crumb) * The Rite of Spring (1984- Stravinsky) * Temptations of the Moon (1986- Bartok) * Tangled Night (1986- Egge) * Persephone (1987- Stravinsky) * Night Chant (1988- Nakaï) * Maple leaf Rag (1990- Joplin)

Muray, Nickolas , 1892-1965 Martha Graham , ca. 1922-1961 negative, gelatin on triacetate film

Muray, Nickolas , 1892-1965Martha Graham , ca. 1922-1961 negative, gelatin on nitrocellulose sheet film

Muray, Nickolas , 1892-1965Martha Graham , ca. 1922-1961 negative, gelatin on nitrocellulose sheet film

Muray, Nickolas , 1892-1965Martha Graham , ca. 1922-1961 negative, gelatin on triacetate film

Innovations : corps, technique, mouvement

La danse expression de l’inconscient.

Opposition contraction/détente; importance du bassin, siège des pulsions et des désirs.

Vision du corps et analyse des lois du mouvement, abordées du point de vue du corps féminin.

Le mouvement comme expression des passions universelles.

Focalisation sur les moments et les états de crise paroxystiques.

Rôle primordial du solo : primauté de la danseuse sur lachorégraphe

Martha Graham

Espace symbolique; les objets comme reflets des fantasmes, phobies, images intérieures des personnages mis en scène.

Identité américaine de la danse.

Influence de la psychanalyse et en particulier de Carl G. Jung.

Innovations : représentation, espace, rapports avec les autres arts

La danse expression de l’inconscient.

Martha Graham

Steichen, Edward American (b. Luxembourg, 1879-1973)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Martha Graham

1931 gelatin silver contact print 24.7 x 19.8 cm. Bequest of Edward Steichen by Direction of Joanna T. Steichen GEH NEG: 27228 79:2184:0003

NON-GEH NUMBERS: 1074-6 / 286

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES: Steichen, Eduard J. --A Life in Photography.-- London: W.H. Allen, 1963. pl. 118.// Sobieszek, Robert & Steichen, Joanna. --Edward Steichen.-- Tokyo, Japan: Pacific Press Service, 1986. fig. 84.// Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 547.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Steichen - A Centennial Tribute", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, July 3 - October 28, 1979.//"Edward Steichen", US, NY, Rochester, GEH -, *** no exhib date given ***.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(inscribed on edge of negative) "Martha Graham V.F. 1074-6" verso-(in pencil) "286"

NOTES: Photograph for Vanity Fair. Catalogued 1/86, HA/DZ.

SUBJECTS: personage, dancers / Graham, Martha personage, choreographers / Graham, Martha

Celebration, 1934Barbara Morgan/Life MagazineCelebration, 1934Barbara Morgan/Life Magazine

Bennington College, where Graham was a member of the founding faculty of the summer dance program launched by Martha Hill in 1934.

Martha Graham dansLamentation, 1935Barbara Morgan/Life Magazine

Martha Graham dansLamentation, 1935Barbara Morgan/Life Magazine

Sally Rand 1904-1979 and Martha Graham 1894-1991

Miguel Covarrubias (1904–1957) Gouache on paper for Vanity Fair, December 1934 Private collection

My dancing is just dancing. It is not an attempt to interpret life in a literary sense. It is the affirmation of life through movement. Its only aim is to impart the sensation of living, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, of the mystery, the humor, the variety and the wonder of life; to send the spectator away with a fuller sense of his own potentialities and the power of realizing them, whatever the medium of his activity.

Martha Graham (1894-1991)

Interview (1935)

Martha Graham dansLetter to the World, 1940Barbara Morgan 1900-1992Épreuve argentique

Martha Graham dansLetter to the World, 1940Barbara Morgan 1900-1992Épreuve argentique

El Penitente, 1940Erick Hawkins dans le rôle du flagellantPhoto: Barbara Morgan

Merce Cunningham dans Totem Ancestoren 1942.

Barbara Morgan/Life Magazine

Merce Cunningham dans Totem Ancestoren 1942.

Barbara Morgan/Life Magazine

Martha Graham et Erich Hawkins, première de Appalachian Spring

à l’auditorium Coolidge de la Librairie du Congrès en 1944.

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Deaths and Entrances, 1945Photo: Barbara Morgan

Photo: John Deane

Night Journey, 1947

Photo: John Deane

Night Journey, 1947

Photo: John Deane

Night Journey, 1947

Photo: John Deane

Night Journey, 1947

Photo: John Deane

Night Journey, 1947

Photo: John Deane

Night Journey, 1947

There is only one of you in all time,

this expression is unique.

And if you block it,it will never exist

through any other medium and will

be lost.

There is only one of you in all time,

this expression is unique.

And if you block it,it will never exist

through any other medium and will

be lost.