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They became devoted strength. for in time she fell in love with him. me "Louis brought and He different. respect for music. schooled . . "He saw me out," she recalled. He me as something strange and a deep in certain behavior, discipline my had the most to do with shaping Denishawn gave Martha plenty of opportunities and perform, but she was growing restless. " to teach, learn, travel, Miss Ruth and Ted were having summoned make to help peace between them. Miss Ruth, meanwhile, had insisted on taking over some of Martha's Beyond roles.
For herself she created seventy-nine Many of those dances broke new ground. " Revolt was Martha's first dance of social protest, a stark, forceful comment on injustice and the outraged human powerful manifesto, a jutting, seemed spirit. call to Those who saw the dance described to be fighting some sinister but invisible force. and in the antiwar Poems of 1917. In 1929 explored the fears and desires of a young movement, what Martha sized pure Wearing girl. " a red dress, she kept her feet planted moved mainly between as a arms, in which the dancer, body braced, elbows In 1928 Martha expressed her social conscience again in the solo Immigrant it on a small platform and her shoulders and her knees.
GOING TO THE TOP 39 Martha Graham (center) with Evelyn Sabin (left) two members of her and Betty MacDonald first dance group, (right). CHAPTER FOUR EVOLT To SUPPORT a Martha HERSELF, new dance department at the turned to teaching. She became codirector of Eastman School of Music York. She would have a studio to work nities to choreograph At Denishawn, we just Every week she Rochester, — "a word made up I New New reached I York. " commuted by overnight New York City to more than 350 miles away.