Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-443) and index.
Contents:
From coal-fed Allegheny to Santa Barbara's ocean -- Denishawn days: learning from Miss Ruth and Ted -- Dancing on Braodway, becoming a teacher -- Embarking on choreographic career -- Taking on New York, modernism, and Nietzsche -- From Rite of Spring to a Seattle school -- Primitive mysteries and the birth of modern dance -- Creating dances for plays -- Summering in Bennington, forging Frontier -- Working through war and love: Erick arrives -- Enter the men -- Making plays dance -- Springtime in Appalachia and a darker journey -- An errand through the meadow, the maze, and the heart's cave -- Angels at play and two Christian heroines -- Traveling into Asia and onward without Erick -- To combat the onslaught of aging -- Choreography as meat and drink.
Summary:
"The definitive biography of dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, one of the great American artists of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.
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