Martha Graham was one of the most innovative modern dancer/choreographer for the visual arts, spanning over 70 years. In her lifetime she received honors ranging from the Key to the City of Paris, to Japan's Imperial Order of the Precious Crown.
Martha Graham talks Lamentation, Performed by Peggy Lyman.
Critics and Audiences soon became accustomed to Graham's innovative style of movement and she developed a following among serious dance patrons, scholars and critics. During the early 1930s, her work was focused on emotional themes. Her famous solo, "Lamentation," for example, was a portrait of a grieving women, sitting alone on a bench and moving to an anguished Kodaly piano score. The scholar Elizabeth Kendall has written that "Lamentation (image)" is both a piece about the emotion of grief and a visual homage to contemporary architecture, most notably the new skyscrapers that were beginning to fill the New York skyline Source
I found this dance piece after coming across this image that inspired my current project. I
loved this image for the concept and thought it was beautiful. The image struck
a chord with me, as it seemed to speak of anxiety, struggle and pain. I want to be able to capture emotion within my own images through the expression of dance, and body language.
I find the dance incredibly moving and again, it struck a chord with me. You can feel the emotion throughout. You can feel the grief, and that's what I want to capture in my images.
"I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable."
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