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Martha Graham
Martha Graham was an American modern dancer, teacher and choreographer responsible for creating the Graham technique.
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entertainment · American dancer and choreographer (1894–1991) · ballet dancer · choreographer · music educator · ballet master · costume designer · dancer · film director · also Martha Graham, Graham
Born 11 May 1894 · Died 1 April 1991 · Q487604
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2026· 5 entries
Fox News: Darline Graham’s ‘embarrassing and inexcusable’ national security stumble spotlights break from late brother
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The Washington Post: Analysis | Darline Graham’s ‘oops’ moment and the pitfalls of acknowledging ignorance
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ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos: 'A true American original': Trump eulogizes Sen. Lindsey Graham at Washington funeral - ABC News
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The Guardian: Lindsey Graham’s sister and fill-in senator says she’s ‘not that informed on national security’
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2021· 1 entry
Actress Mary Beth Peil portrayed Graham in the Netflix series Halston
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2020· 1 entry
On what would have been Graham's 126th birthday, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts announced it had acquired Graham's archives for its Jerome Robbins Dance Division
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2019· 1 entry
Time created 89 new covers to celebrate women of the year starting from 1920; it chose Graham for 1930
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2015· 2 entries
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (2015).
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Was posthumously inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
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2013· 1 entry
The dance films by her were selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the registry's owner, the Library of Congress
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2011· 1 entry
Google's logo for one day was turned into one dedicated to Graham's life and legacy
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2007· 1 entry
At the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, with a program consisting of: Appalachian Spring, Embattled Garden, Errand into the Maze, and American Original
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1998· 1 entry
Graham was posthumously named "Dancer of the Century" by Time magazine, and one of the female "Icons of the Century" by People
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1991· 3 entries
Died 1991-04-01.
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“I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.”
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“Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.”
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1990· 1 entry
The Council of Fashion Designers of America awarded Graham with the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award
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1984· 1 entry
Graham was awarded the highest French order of merit, the Legion of Honour by then Minister of culture Jack Lang
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (1979).
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1978· 1 entry
Was the singer Madonna, a few years before she became famous
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1976· 2 entries
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Gerald Ford (1976).
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By President Gerald Ford (the First Lady Betty Ford had studied under Graham in her youth)
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1972· 1 entry
Quit drinking, returned to her studio, reorganized her company, and went on to choreograph ten new ballets and many revivals
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1965· 1 entry
Graham became the company's first director
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded Capezio Dance Award (1960).
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1958· 1 entry
The Martha Graham Dance Company premiered the ballet Clytemnestra, which would become a success
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1957· 1 entry
Graham was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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1952· 1 entry
Graham allowed taping of her meeting and cultural exchange with famed deaf-blind author, activist and lecturer Helen Keller, who, after a visit to one of Graham's company rehearsals became a close friend and supporter
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1938· 1 entry
The Roosevelt family invited Graham to dance at the White House, making her the first dancer to perform there
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1932· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1932).
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1926· 2 entries
Graham and others in her company gave a dance recital at the Klaw Theatre in New York City
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The Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance was established, in a small studio on the Upper East Side of New York City
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1925· 1 entry
Graham was employed at the Eastman School of Music where Rouben Mamoulian was head of the School of Drama
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1923· 2 entries
Studied at Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts (1916–1923).
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In order to become a featured dancer in the Greenwich Village Follies revue for two years
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1922· 1 entry
Graham performed one of Shawn's Egyptian dances with Lillian Powell in a short silent film by Hugo Riesenfeld that attempted to synchronize a dance routine on film with a live orchestra and an onscreen conductor
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1911· 1 entry
Attended the first dance performance of her life, watching Ruth St
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1894· 1 entry
Born 1894-05-11.
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