Martha Graham

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  • Born

  • Began Studies at Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts

    Stayed Until 1923

  • Attended first dance performance

    Watched Ruth St. Denis perform at the Mason Opera House in Los Angeles

  • Graham performed in a short silent film by Hugo Riesenfeld

    Danced with Lillian Powell

  • Employed by Easton School of Music

    Together,Rouben Mamoulian and Graham produced a short two-color film called The Flute of Krishna, featuring Eastman students

  • Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance was established

  • Choreographed Chorale

  • Choreographed Novelette

  • Debuted in first independant concert

    Graham debuted her first independent concert, consisting of 18 short solos and trios that she had choreographed. This performance took place at the 48th Street Theatre in Manhattan.

  • Gave a dance recital at Klaw Theatre in NYC

    Around the same time she entered an extended collaboration with Japanese-American pictorialist photographer Soichi Sunami, and over the next five years they together created some of the most iconic images of early modern dance

  • Choreographed Lugubre

  • Choreographed Revolt

  • Choreographed Fragilité

  • Choreographed Scherza

  • Choreographed Figure of a Saint

  • Choreographed Resurrection

  • Choreographed Adolescence

  • Choreographed Danza

  • Choreographed Vision of the Apocalypse

  • Choreographed Insincerities

  • Choreographed Moment Rustica

  • Choreographed Heretic

  • Choreographed Lamentation

  • Choreographed Harlequinade

  • Choreographed Primitive Mysteries

  • Choreographed Bacchanale

  • Choreographed Dolorosa

  • Choreographed Romeo and Juliet

  • Choreographed Praeludium

  • Choreographed Frontier

  • Choreographed Course

  • Graham created Chronicle

  • Declined Hitler's invitation to perform at the International Arts Festival

  • Choreographed Steps in the Street

    Part of Chronicle

  • Choreographed Horizons

  • Choreographed Salutation

  • Choreographed Deep Song

  • Choreographed Opening Dance

  • Choreographed Immediate Tragedy

  • Choreographed American Lyric

  • Roosevelts Invited her to perform at White House

    She was the first dancer to ever perform here

  • Erick Hawkins became first man to dance at her company

    He officially joined her troupe the following year, dancing male lead in a number of Graham's works. They were married in July 1948 after the New York premiere of Night Journey.He left her troupe in 1951 and they divorced in 1954.

  • Choreographed American Document

  • Choreographed Columbiad

  • Choreographed Every Soul is a Circus

  • Choreographed El Penitente

  • Choreographed Letter to the World

  • Choreographed Punch and the Judy

  • Choreographed Land Be Bright

  • Choreographed Deaths and Entrances

  • Choreographed Salem Shore

  • Choreographed Appalachian Spring

  • Choreographed Imagined Wing

  • Choreographed Herodiade

  • Choreographed Dark Meadow

  • Choreographed Cave of the Heart

  • Choreographed Errand into the Maze

  • Choreographed Night Journey

  • Choreographed Diversion of Angels

  • Choreographed Judith

  • Choreographed The Triumph of St. Joan

  • Had a meeting with Hellen Keller

    After a visit to one of Graham's company rehearsals, Keller became a close friend and supporter. Graham was inspired by Keller's joy from and interpretation of dance, utilizing her body to feel the vibration of drums and sound of feet and movement of the air around her.

  • Choreographed Ardent Song

  • Choreographed Seraphic Dialogue

  • Choreographed Embattled Garden

  • Martha Graham Dance company premiered Clytemnestra

    Ballet was based on the ancient Greek legend Clytemnestra and it became a huge success and great accomplishment for Graham

  • Choreographed Episodes

  • Choreographed Acrobats of God

  • Choreographed Alcestis

  • Choreographed Visionary Recital

  • Choreographed One More Guady Night

  • Choreographed Phaedra

  • Choreographed A Look at Lighting

  • Choreographed Secular Games

  • Choreographed Legend of Judith

  • Choreographed Circe

  • Became the first director of Batsheva Dance Company

    One of Graham's students was heiress Bethsabée de Rothschild with whom she became close friends. When Rothschild moved to Israel and established the Batsheva Dance Company in 1965, Graham became the company's first director.

  • Choreographed The Witch of Endor

  • Choreographed Cortege of Eagles

  • Choreographed A Time of Snow

  • Choreographed Plain of Prayer

  • Choreographed The Lady of the House of Sleep

  • Choreographed The Archaic Hours

  • Choreographed Mendicants of Evening

  • Choreographed Myth of the Voyage

  • Choreographed Holy Jungle

  • Choreographed Jacob's Dream

  • Choreographed Lucifer

  • Choreographed Adorations

  • Choreographed Point of Crossing

  • Choreographed The Scarlet Letter

  • Choreographed O Thou Desire Who Art About to Sing

  • Choreographed Shadows

  • Choreographed The Owl and the Pussycat

  • Choreographed Ecuatorial

  • Choreographed Flute of Pan

  • Choreographed Frescoes

  • Choreographed Episodes

  • Choreographed Judith

  • Choreographed Acts of Light

  • Choreographed Dances of the Golden Hall

  • Choreographed Andromanche's Lament

  • Choreographed Phaedra's Dream

  • Choreographed The Rite of Spring

  • Choreographed Song

  • Choreographed Temptations of the Moon

  • Choreographed Tangled Night

  • Choreographed Persephone

  • Choreographed Night Chant

  • Choreographed Maple Leaf Rag

  • Choreographed The Eyes of the Goddess

    (unfinished)

  • Died