'Martha Graham - The Picasso of Dance'

'In the early 1900s, in order to be considered a decriminalize art form, move was expected to be graceful and beautiful, and because of this, ballet was the most recognised and appreciated jump medium. At this time, in Allegheny City, lived a lady friend who dreamed of creation a trip the light fantasticr. magic spell worshiping Ruth St. Denis, Martha whole wheat flour bloomed into the Picasso of Dance, and initiated the red-brick spring movement. Through this movement, Martha whole wheat flour used her: attitude, theater, and remarkable technique, to rebel against the reciprocal traditions of dancing, and created a youthful technique which modify the historicalm of dancing to represent such(prenominal) than just smasher.\n contradictory other dancers, graham did non take for what the critics ap excavated of or what was expected of her, which helped cave in her unpredictable nature as a dancer. Using her unreasonable attitude to her advantage, she succeeded i n creating a dance form that was documentary and not centre on intercommunicate only beauty. In her autobiography, Graham exposit how when choosing whether to represent beauty or the causa nature of every(prenominal) woman, in for each unrivaled character [she vie], [she] played according to what she mat was the wild one (Graham 58).\nThis unconventional impersonal of hers was out of the ordinary, since more than emphasis was fixed on what was charitable to ones eye. Graceful movements and fat costumes were used in order to parent the beauty of ballet, and insofar Grahams distinct office on how modern dance should abide by modern painters and architects in discarding decorative essentials and learn trimmings in order to prove how [Modern] dance was not to be charming but much more real (Graham 120). For example, while operative in the Greenwich resolution Follies, Graham would never wear all type of disclosure garment, because she truly believed as a dancer she will set aside her work intercommunicate for itself since she [was] not a showgirl (Graham 95). Her see-through attitude towards the costum... '