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A Short Biography of Martha Graham

Author Name:

Martha Graham

Born As:

Martha Graham

Other Names:

Born:

11 May 1894

Died:

1 Apr 1991




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Dancer and choreographer                          
                          
Mother 
Father George Graham                          
Regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance, and is widely considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century.                          
It was Robert Edmond Jones who used to say to his classes, “Some of you are doomed to be artists.” Martha picked up this phrase and used it many times thereafter. She also borrowed from him the phrase “doom-eager “, which he had borrowed from Ibsen.