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Article: Graham--present indicative, future uncertain.(Martha Graham)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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Martha Graham. How do we feel about Martha Graham? And after that, how do we really feel about Martha Graham? Let's cut away the encrustation of former glories, those heady remembrances of things past, those lip services paid to history's icons. How about Martha past, present, and--let's do some clairvoyance--future? Not her influence on others, but her present importance in and of herself.
When I first encountered Graham as a dancer (she was already 60) and the Graham repertoire in 1954, I was overwhelmed. And not simply by what I saw onstage, but also because this was my first encounter with one the legendary figures of 20th-century dance. Of the other such ...