Ovation TV | Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed

[valnaples]

I am also here because of the google doodles the other day..(Ms. Graham's birthday)...thank you...she is WONDERFUL and edgy and so very gifted! Quite the legend in dance as it should be.

[shineforce]

reminds me of lady gaga

[Hellzyead]

Judi Dench?

[03busty]

i do modern and i love it you express how you feel with the music and how it flows its great and so much fun!!!

<3 dance

[vnagibina1]

Very unique and absolutely beautiful work she has done!!!! 

[metairie25]

ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!! THANK YOU SOOOOO VERY MUCH GOOGLE....THANK YOU! =D

[bubbles3819]

google brought me here!!

[JayWilliamThompson]

wait... what was i googling again?

[timofly]

Favorite so far Heretic

[jairo5118]

beautiful, beautiful

[niklasoti]

yea.. google brought me here as u already know!

[Beriaal]

Thumbs up if today's Google Doodle brought you here.

[Bl1n1luh]

0:40 Indonesian dance..!!!

[sunnyarina]

Thanks Google.

[Matthewonderland]

She is so scary in Lamentation 

[pelelecolon]

Julio Bocca as male dancer and Martha Graham as female for me are the Best!!

[crows500]

Thumbs up if Google brought you here

[Solinsparadise]

How old was she , when she died ?

[amyjoyeepun]

@Solinsparadise She died at age 96.

[KanemiX3]

gooooooogle ~ 8D !

[mizniki10]

google sent me

[smritimala]

Greetings from Malaysia! Happy 117th Birthday Martha Graham : ) , I am indeed very proud to learn your techniques! thank you for the wonderful contribution to the world of dance! :-)

[Gr8Success]

this video gets me bored

[TheMechengr]

I certainly wish that the ignorant youth would come up with more intelligent things to say.

[TheMechengr]

I didnt know about Martha Graham 5 minutes ago, and I am already impressed.

[MusicManAustralia]

Thumbs up if Google sent you here :)

Happy birthday!!

[B00TYxC0RE]

I've always seen ballet as discipline and modern as freedom. You must have balance.

[drstew1]

Does anyone know of William Luther? aka Bill, I understand he was right there with her? 

[AllThatJazz93]

martha graham is an apsolute ledgend, choreographing dances till she was 90 odd and died halfway through choreographing.. she my total inspiration :)

[JasonBTV]

Is that first dance that comes up on the screen Anything Goes? lol, i'm pretty sure it is!!

[meatballsub1]

Woo I'm watching this for WMST250!

[dallaskenn]

One of the world's most creative objectivists ever.

[9gub]

i am so inspired with her! at a camp i am going to we have to dress up as a person whom are in American history so i chose her!

[LifeLoveandDance]

Wonderful rare footage.

[PinkcoltheGIRL]

sorry danced into her 60s in 1969 she retired finally* but she honestly had some brutal challenges to overcome to create what has made a massive impact on the arts

[jackabeest]

@PinkcoltheGIRL In 1969 Martha Graham was 74 or 75. She was born in 1894

[PinkcoltheGIRL]

She suffered greatly for this genius and pioneering spirit, a lot of poverty, tragedy, exile - she danced until her 80s, she did her own costumes - sometimes her own settings - this was a Wonder Woman of the Arts

[Louizabiza]

I ahve nto taken ballet but have taken intensives in her school in NYC for two eyars. She is an amazing genius, pioneer at a time that women just started voting...amazing, revolutionary work.

[snowboon12]

I Love the Work that Martha Did I Find it Amazing. Modern Dance Is To Go Outside The Rules Of Ballet. I Find Her Work Outstanding. And To All Of Yuu Who Find Her Work Ugly Look At It More Close And Look At Her Technique. I Find It Beautiful.

[latinoheat10190]

I absolutely respect her work and modern dancing as a whole however I still do believe that classical ballet has a much more tremendous amount of beauty and undefined technique that cannot compare to any type of modern dancing.

[nothersheep]

Ballet technique is CLEARLY about beauty, is incredibly developed, and is the real content of it's choreographies. Contemporary Art in general, and dance is no exception, has always been about challenging and questioning rather than reassuring or calming. It's strength is that it's less about a familiar beauty, and more about ideas & investigations. That was a big part of what pushed dance out of the realm of craft and into the realm of art. Both have their place. Neither can replace the other.

[nothersheep]

Her dances are usually about things that are ugly or austere. Her technique reflects that intensity. That's why it's so expressive, moving, and so human.

Picasso's paintings are 'ugly' in a similar way. Or, perhaps, similarly sublime.

[kanibal2g4]

i love grahm my fav is her interpretation of the greek tragedy madea....i loved it

[PriincessNOT]

i think her work was ugly

[LadyScandalously]

no i think you are ugly for being a fool to call her work ugly

[Wagerfilm]

musician here, who learned something today.

[marahard]

In the late fifties, I encountered Barbara Morgan's great book of Graham photos.

I was mesmerized. And still am. By her intensity.

[polishactor]

what i love is the clarity and and truth of her images she presents with human bodys. the heretic SOO many times has moments which scare the hell out of me. and i love the modern dance movement as started by isadora duncan and martha graham, because it's not placing on the body the demands of making your body something it might not be (like ballet)... instead, it appreciates the individual and creates wonderful things within the scope of you as an individual.

[PhilipCLI]

I was so lucky to have been at the Graham School in the 70's when Martha was alive. She came up to me at the end of an intensive 3 week workshop, walking very slowly from the front of the studio to the very back of the studio where I was seated on the floor and said, "Young man, you relate things very well." To this day I know myself as someone who relates things very well, not only in dance, but in the rest of my life.

[mhss0001]

you lucky person.

[Kapojos]

@PhilipCLI ofcourseeeee you met martha graham........!!

[i4BiA]

@PhilipCLI u lucky basturd D:

[lzenki84l]

@PhilipCLI omg you are so lucky

[lucascbueno]

Hello, i saw your post here on youtube and i wonder if you could help me, because i´m doing a college work about Martha Graham biography,filosophy and techquine, and since you participated in her school when she was alive,i wonder if you could help me. What was she like in classes, the way she teached, the things she would say about her technique,etc.everything you could tell me about her,i really thank. anything will help me.i´m a big fan of her. here is my email lucascbueno@hotmail.com. thanks

[hanky87panky]

It's great to see Lamentation in color! I've just seen pictures of it in black and white..

[thefishtanksucks]

to eldin3,

i love graham dance also but i have to disagree with you and say that it is not easy.

To say that is an underestimation of the complexity of the technique and her ballets.

If you have studied graham dance for only one year you have probably just begun the most simple variations of the movement.

Continue to study the technique and you will see that the complexity of the floor work builds.

It will give you and understanding of how to perform her great works.

[coryography26]

it's mind blowing to think that a person would think that a year of dancing would be all you would ever learn from a lifetime of great work. I think your comment was nicely put and bravo. I have been dancing 22 years and still learning everyday. martha g. is one of my childhood inspirations..the icons of dance from my childhood are nothing like today. Gene kelly, gregory hines, Atstaire. I love the new wave, but feel the youth should know their roots, the ones their icons looked up to.

[eldin3]

i love martha graham, but she scares me and the dancing she did was easy. ive only done dance for a year, and i think its easy. yea....

[marakazo1]

Martha Grahams dancing easy????? are you out of your mind? check out Medeas solo, night journey, diversion of angels etc, etc. Where is your video? Id love to see what you do,NEXT COMES THIS: oh I just heard JS Bach it is so easy, not to mention Picasso uuu anybody can do that... PLEASE!!!

[dancinman007]

I did Graham technique for 5 yrs and still have bone spurs on my knees to prove it. I have danced for 20 years and Graham was the hardest technique i have ever encountered.

[leesterg]

You think it's easy . . . post one of your performances . . . obviously you are doing something wrong!

[lababoc]

BRAVO!!!

[evitastories]

This is a great documentary!

[wesleyan97]

Narrated by Claire Bloom, I think.