8. Awards2012
Doris Duke Artist
Musical America's 2012 Composer of the Year
2011
NPR's 50 Great Voices
Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts
2010
American Music Center Letter of Distinction
2008
Premio Arlecchino d'Oro 2008, Mantova Feslytival, Ita
11. ~Feelings toward Ballet
~Whats she thought dance should be
~Early career/Small shows/Daly company
~Separation from small career to popular
career
~Influence on others/dance schools
Isadora Duncan
14. ~Denishawn school in Los Angles
Ruth St. Denis~ translation
Ted Shawn
~First debut in New York in 1926
Martha Graham
15. Martha Graham
● Own language of movements
● Basic human movements
● Human emotions
● Insght on human conditions
16. Martha Graham
~Focus on center of the body
~Coordination between breathing and
movement
~Dances had emotional and spiritual
themes
~Contraction and release
~Focus on the movement of the pelvis
17. Inspiration
~Greek mythology, the early American
frontier, Emily Dickinson poems, Joan of
arc .
~Interested in the way people used their
bodies
~”Movement never lies”
22. Quiz
~Which dancer focus on nature?
~Which dancer focus on human condition and
contraction and release?
~Which dancer focus on combining her vocals
with her dance?
