Download e-book for kindle: Martha Graham: Gender & the Haunting of a Dance Pioneer by Victoria Thoms

By Victoria Thoms

ISBN-10: 1841505080

ISBN-13: 9781841505084

Martha Graham’s identify was once across the world well-known as a part of the fashionable dance global, and even though developments in choreography proceed to alter, her impact on dance as an artwork shape endures. during this, the 1st prolonged feminist examine the fashionable dance pioneer, Victoria Thoms explores the cult of Graham and her dancing via a severe lens that exposes the gendered that means in the back of a lot of her paintings. Thoms synthesizes a various archive of fabric on Graham from motion pictures, photos, memoir, and critique in an effort to spotlight Graham’s certain contribution to the dance international and humanities tradition in general.

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