Martha Graham

sections of the course’s text in regards to his creative task, creative mind and his breakthrough. How Lee had to overcome emotional pitfalls and how it helped make him the master that he is today. This paper will also touch on how Spike Lee and Martha Graham relate in their Mastery journey. This paper will focus on the journey and on the mastery that is Spike Lee. Spike Less was born on March…

It is difficult to tell the exact value of things such as science, nature, words, math, and the arts, but in Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood they seem to have it all figured out. The society in the novel is obsessed with the idea of immortality and because they believe science and math can help them reach that goal they consider them to be more important than anything else. Generally, when something is more important it is also considered more valuable, therefore the society considers…

Martha Graham’s “Lamentation,” like many of her other works, is a direct expression of emotion; an expression of emotion through body movements. Graham was known as the “Mother of Modern Dance” and for her technique “contraction and release.” She also focused on the stability and strength of the body and keeping its control. This technique was in efforts to develop and maintain flexibility in the spine and hips, specifically in a seated position. “Lamentation” was created in response to the…

Dance is considered by many to be an essential element of human behavior. This behavior was first demonstrated by the early movement of the Earth’s most primitive human civilizations. It has evolved over the years to create a variety of traditional ethnic and folk styles, as well as classical ballet, jazz, tap, ballroom, and the modern and contemporary dance genres that are popular today (Anderson). Although the origins of dance choreography can be traced back to prehistoric times, modern and…

having a lot of good thoughts while reading this text. Reading about Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, and Hanya Holm made me realize how being a good dancer can take you far in life. It’s not about being a great dancer, but to be able to let…

The popular consensus was that Argentine Tango first arrived to Argentina around the mid 1800s. At the very beginning, “Tango” was merely a type of music where “one musician [played] on a guitar or an accordion”. After somewhat years, the Tango altered its definition in to a “trio” incorporating various instruments such as the “bandoneón, violin, piano and bass”. Around “1880s”, the dance was found around the brothels, outside of the city of Buenos Aires. (https://accessdance.com/news/2155/ ).…

The first European dramatist Aeschylus is one of three legendary ancient Greek writers, who specialize in Greek tragedy. Joining him are legend’s Sophocles and Euripides. These men framed what societies called theater into what is it today by reconstructing the ways Greeks viewed theater. Aeschylus essentially learned to express the meaning of his plays through experience and creativity. He was a man who’s main purpose was to produce the correlation of man and the many gods the Greek’s believed…

In Oakland he met many of the top names in modern dance; Doris Humphrey, Hanya Holm and Martha Graham. Martha Graham told him that if he ever came to the Big Apple she would put in a dance. His mother quickly accepted the idea of Merce Cunningham dancing but his father was a little more reluctant. And He later joined Martha Graham's dance company in 1939 and stayed until…

From classic ballet to modern dance, there was a conversion of bodily energy into a mental state, which means that modern dance began to express ideas through idealizing women’s bodies. In the late 19th century, Loie Fuller (1862-1928) was a pioneering woman of modern dance as she applied the idea of a feminist aesthetics to fuel her movements by emphasizing costumes and visual effects. More specifically, she devised a type of dance that focused on the shifting play of lights and colors on the…

Of the African American dancers and choreographers, we have studied so far, I believe that they have broken out of traditional representations and stereotypes of black bodies. Examples of this are seen through major figures such as Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, and Alvin Ailey. Katherine Dunham was one of the major figures that helped break traditional representations. She was known as the “Matriarch and Queen Mother of Black Dance.” She was the director and founder of Katherine Dunham Dance…