Martha Graham: Gender & the Haunting of a Dance Pioneer by Victoria Thoms

By Victoria Thoms

Martha Graham’s identify was once across the world famous as a part of the fashionable dance international, and even though traits in choreography proceed to alter, her impact on dance as an paintings shape endures. during this, the 1st prolonged feminist examine the trendy dance pioneer, Victoria Thoms explores the cult of Graham and her dancing via a serious lens that exposes the gendered which means at the back of a lot of her paintings. Thoms synthesizes a various archive of fabric on Graham from movies, images, memoir, and critique for you to spotlight Graham’s particular contribution to the dance global and humanities tradition in general.

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