2. Graham’s dancing and choreography exposed the depths of human emotion through movements that were sharp angular, jagged, and direct. Graham also she a performance of Ruth Saint-Denis that inspired her so much she decided to become a dancer.

3. Martha Graham treated male and female dancers very differently to traditional ballet, where the male dancers often did not perform in a masculine way. Whereas Graham knew how women could dance, she did not know how it felt to be a male. Graham wrote, ‘“I have done those things only that I could feel and understand, not in a verbal sense, perhaps, but in my medium, my instrument, my body.” That is, she could not choreograph

Martha Graham ballets were inspired by a wide variety of sources, including modern painting, the American frontier, religious ceremonies of Native Americans, and Greek mythology. Many of her most important roles portray great women of history and mythology: Clytemnestra, Jocasta, Medea, Phaedra, Joan of Arc, and Emily Dickinson.

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