Martha Graham - The Picasso of Dance

In the early 1900s, in align to be considered a legitimate art form, leap was expected to be handsome and beautiful, and because of this, ballet was the most original and appreciated dancing medium. At this time, in Allegheny City, lived a female child who dreamed of being a trip the light fantastic toer. While worshiping Ruth St. Denis, Martha whole wheat flour bloomed into the Picasso of Dance, and initiated the new dance movement. through this movement, Martha graham used her: spatial relation, theater, and uncommon technique, to rebel against the common traditions of dancing, and created a upstart technique which change the factualm of dance to understand more than just salmon pink.\n different other dancers, Graham did non care for what the critics approved of or what was expected of her, which helped establish her capricious reputation as a dancer. Using her irrational attitude to her advantage, she succeeded in creating a dance form that was real and not focu sed on project only beauty. In her autobiography, Graham described how when choosing whether to represent beauty or the eccentric nature of every woman, in separately character [she played], [she] played agree to what she felt was the wild wholeness (Graham 58).\nThis unconventional objective of hers was break through of the ordinary, since more emphasis was primed(p) on what was appealing to sensations eye. Graceful movements and set forth costumes were used in consecrate to enhance the beauty of ballet, and up to now Grahams pellucid perspective on how modern dance should follow modern painters and architects in discarding decorative essentials and attend trimmings in order to prove how [Modern] dance was not to be pretty save much more real (Graham 120). For example, while working in the Greenwich Village Follies, Graham would never wear any image of revealing garment, because she truly believed as a dancer she exit allow her work address for itself since she [was ] not a chorus girl (Graham 95). Her bold attitude towards the costum...