" Yet, we often admire ordinary people in our everyday lives not because of their ability to make money, but because of specific personality traits. Martha Graham is a "Self-made" person because of who she is as a dancer and inspirited so many people to follow in her footsteps.
6. As a teacher, dancer, and choreographer, Martha Graham had a powerful effect on other people. I think what accounts on this effect is Martha Graham inspiration, determination, fortitude, and dedication. .
American dancer, choreographer, and teacher, was the world's leading exponent of modern dance. Martha Graham was born in a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in May 1894. Her family moved to California when she was ten. Graham became interested in dance when she saw Ruth St. Denis perform in 1914. Overcoming parental restraint, Graham enrolled in the Denishawn Studio. This small, quiet, shy, thin, but perceptive and hardworking girl impressed the leader of the studio, Ted Shawn, and toured with his troupe in a production of Xochitl, based on an Aztec Indian legend. .
Graham family moved to Santa Barbara, CA, in 1908, and in 1911 she saw a performance of Ruth Saint-Denis that inspired her so much she decided to become a dancer. She later would study at Saint-Denis' dance school, Denishawn, which she ran with her husband, Ted Shawn. In 1926, she took a teaching job at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, and gave her first recital at the 48th Street Theatre in New York City. .
In 1927, Martha Graham founded her dance company and school, living and working out of a tiny Carnegie Hall studio in midtown Manhattan. In developing her technique, Martha Graham experimented endlessly with basic human movement, beginning with the most elemental movements of contraction and release. Using the principles of contraction and release as the foundation for her technique, Martha Graham built a vocabulary of movement that would "increase the emotional activity of the dancer's body.
