Martha Graham Impact On Society

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When referencing modern dance, the clearest image that the general public would most likely imagine includes a woman, dressed in long robes, with a pained and emotional look on her face. This is an image of Martha Graham, one of the most prolific dance artists of the twentieth century. Her impact on the art of modern dance is indisputably the greatest of any woman of her time. She created a codified technique, focusing on an “angular and stylized appearances’, along with the accompaniment of “ the illumination of life and the struggles of the human experience, paying particular attention to humans’ inner nature”(Giguere, 1998 ) This set her apart from the other dance artists around her and inspired so many others to follow in her footsteps