Revolt

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Graham’s performance

  • Martha Graham
    In Martha Graham: Early life and works

    …of her 1927 program was Revolt, probably the first dance of protest and social comment staged in the United States, which was set to the avant-garde music of Arthur Honegger. The audience was not impressed; dancers and theatregoers, famous and unknown, ridiculed her. Graham herself later referred to this decade…

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