Martha Graham

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Martha Graham in “Appalachian Spring”

“Phaedra's Dream”

Hear Barbara Morgan reminisce about her first meeting with dancer Martha Graham

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A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

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Martha Graham: Media

American dancer

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Hear Barbara Morgan reminisce about her first meeting with dancer Martha Graham

Hear Barbara Morgan reminisce about her first meeting with dancer Martha Graham

Photographer Barbara Morgan discussing her first meeting with dancer Martha Graham,...

Video: Checkerboard Film Foundation (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

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Martha Graham

Martha Graham

Martha Graham performing “Letter to the World” (also called “The Kick”), 1940.

Barbara Morgan—Underwood Archives/age fotostock

Martha Graham in “Appalachian Spring”

Martha Graham in “Appalachian Spring”

Martha Graham dancing in “Appalachian Spring” in 1954.

Baron—Hulton Archive/Getty Images

“Phaedra's Dream”

“Phaedra's Dream”

Set for “Phaedra's Dream,” by Martha Graham, for which there is no scenery except...

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