Martha Graham

“numbers” people. He lives in a society where scientists and mathematicians are prized for their skills, while the writers and artists are pushed aside. Jimmy, being a “word person” in the novel, goes off to a poor and struggling college called Martha Graham Academy, which doesn’t have much of a future. The conditions there were second-rate and carried poor security. Jimmy’s talent of writing is only useful when it comes down to advertisement for the compounds. That is the only thing a word…

On April 4th, 1928, a girl, who later becomes an inspiring author and woman of the performing arts, was born. Her name was Maya Angelou. Throughout her life, Maya faced racial discrimination and the effects of the Great Depression. However, this never stopped her from expressing herself through her writing. Maya lived with her parents for 3 years at Long Beach, California before being sent her brother, Bailey, who was 4 at that time, to live with their father’s mother in Stamps, Arkansas. Their…

Dance Is A Sport- “Dancers are the athletes of God,” is what Albert Einstein said. He is absolutely right. Dance is a sport. That is what this article is going to prove to you during this essay. It will state reasons including that dance is a physical activity and requires skill, it is competitive, and dancers have to do everything that other athletes do. First off, let’s look at the definition of “sport”. A sport is “an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess” according to…

jobs to support herself and her young son. These jobs would encompass legal and illegal activities, all the while following her life course. She went on to tour Europe in an opera production of Porgy and Bess, as well as dance with the likes of Martha Graham and Alvin Ailey. She worked in Egypt as an editor before moving to Ghana where she taught and wrote for two newspapers. In 1950 she married a Greek sailor, mixed marriages were frowned upon during the pre-civil rights era, and the marriage…

Comparison Between The Rite of Spring and Appalachian Spring The Rite of Spring (1913), composed by Igor Stravinsky, and Appalachian Spring (1944), by Aaron Copland, are ballets that center around folk culture. The Rite of Spring suggests a story of human sacrifice and has an overall a harsh and almost disturbing mood. Appalachian Spring tells the story of a new couple celebrating their new house and is lively and happy. The two ballets stem from a common base of folk culture, yet the mood of…

Martha Graham is a run-down school, with a below average education program, but Jimmy is experiencing the independence he’d been longing for. One of the first realizations Jimmy made is, “that he is interested in damaged, artistic women, because he finds them…

Ailey was an American choreographer who was born in Rodgers, Texas but made his way to New York City through the years of his life. Before beginning on his own company Ailey studied and observed many other choreographers. For example, he observed Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey. He also was a student at Lester Horn’s dance school for many years. Ailey indulged very well in Horton’s style of dance and it displayed once Horton died. Alvin took lead as the company’s director. With the technique…

year 2007 Freedman wrote the book Who was First? Discovering the Americas. Still Freedman prevailed to be a magnificent author and with his marvelous talents, he would take you back in time and put you, “face to face with Abraham Lincoln, dancer Martha Graham, or Chinese philosopher Confucious” (Library Point, n. d.). Many generations of people grew up learning that Columbus was the first in the Americas’, but this book justifies us otherwise. The book Who was First? Discovering the Americas…

Comics #27”, according to (Who really created Batman?). Batman’s name is Bruce Wayne when he is not fighting crime and saving people, but how did he become Batman? Bruce had come from a rich family where his father Thomas Wayne, who was married to Martha Wayne, owned a company called Wayne Enterprises. Bruce’s parents were murdered…

quickly but her dreams continued. In Europe, during the years of 1954 and 1955 Angelou toured in a production of “Porgy and Bess.” Angelou also appeared on television variety shows dancing with Alvin Ailey and also studied modern dance with Martha Graham. In 1957, Angelou recorded her first album called “Calypso…