Denishawn The Birth of
Modern Dance
Using elements of far and Middle Eastern dances to create abstract pieces called musical visualizations, Ruth St. Denis and her husband Ted Shawn have formed this legendary approach to modern dancing.

Discovering Your Expressive Body
A comprehensive demonstration of the basic concepts in modern dance training by a Certified Laban Movement Analyst; presents exercises on total body connectedness, internal support for balance, full-range mobility, weight transference propulsion and three-dimensional movement for modern dance.

Martha Graham
The Dancer Revealed
Modern dance owes more to Martha Graham than to any other single figure. As dancer, choreographer and teacher, she conceived and shaped the major dance form of the 20th century. Martha Graham died in 1991, at almost 97, having towered over American and world dance for seven decades. The Dancer Revealed is the definitive video documentary on her life and work. This insightful program includes interviews with leading figures such as Agnes de Mille, Erick Hawkins, Ron Protas and many others. Among the many extracts shown of her work are Acts of Light, Errand into the Maze, Frontier, Appalachian Spring, American Document, Primitive Mysteries and Night Journey. 60 mins.

Martha Graham - An American Original in Performance DVD
A true pioneer in the world of dance, Martha Graham has become an American legend. Breaking with tradition she has been a fearless explorer and a passionate artist. She exemplifies the American spirit in its purest form. A Dancer's World - In this 30-minute Peabody Award winning film, Miss Graham and her company demonstrate the challenge and beauty of expression through movement. Developed during her European and Oriental tours, the format of the film, "exercised de style" as the French call it, takes us into her dressing room, into the studio and into the spirit of dance itself. Directed and photographed by Peter Glushanok. (Filmed in 1957) Night Journey is Martha Graham's retelling of the legend of Oedipus. Danced by Miss Graham as Jocasta and featuring Paul Taylor as Tiresais and Bertram Ross as Oedipus, the work has a score by William Schuman and setting by Isamu Noguchi, the internationally renowned sculptor and designer.

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