CREATIVITY OF MARTHA GRAHAM IN THE CONTEXT OF MODERN DANCE

Journal Title: Молодь і ринок - Year 2018, Vol 163, Issue 8

Abstract

Martha Graham is one of the founders of modern dance. During the XX century, she was the director of more than 180 ballets. She is famous for a significant contribution to modern dance and American culture. This article explores the influence of Martha Graham’s creativity on the formation and development of the American dance school. The creative way of the dancer is considered and the author’s technique contraction and reliese, which dancer has gradually formed for many years and which is the basis of modern dance today, is analyzed. Trying to understand the truth, the dancers of “dance modern” were interested in the issues of the future fate of the people, how it will affect the historical past, how it will affect its formation of traditions, life circumstances, etc. All this inspired Graham for new productions. Turning to the past, the dancer wanted to find an important truth for herself. In the 1940s, M. Graham’s works received enormous and rebellious psychology. This is not just a concert work, but a whole emotional theatrical performance. M. Graham, in her productions, was able to glean subtlely and transfer to dance techniques exactly the emotional side that people at that time could not publicly demonstrate. It was very close to the background of the culture of postmodern American society, which emphasized subconscious motivations. Confidently moving toward modern dance, M. Graham creates her own “Martha Graham Dance Company”, which was not like any other, thanks to an individual style and bold experiments. Seventy years a renowned dancer devotes herself to choreographic art. She was the first who traveled through her art beyond the sea, who had the honor at the time to appear in the White House and the first to receive the highest civilian award – the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Thanks to Graham, the dance became a plot that was not typical of classical choreography, ballets and productions, was saturated with subtle philosophy and psychology, which created emotional tension, and the bodies of dancers were most liberated in the reproduction of natural emotions. As a result, her technology is reduced and the release is mastered by many followers and occupies a significant place in the context of modern choreography

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Olha Martyniv

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  • EP ID EP595357
  • DOI 10.24919/2308-4634.2018.141890
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Olha Martyniv (2018). CREATIVITY OF MARTHA GRAHAM IN THE CONTEXT OF MODERN DANCE. Молодь і ринок, 163(8), 132-135. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-595357