Martha Graham...Fantastic Dance Artist and choreographer....I was introduced to this amazing lady in my teens whilst studying dance history and I have been amazed since...legend x
You guys have to remember that back then no one had done these types of dance moves before. All of this later influenced on dance and modernized into what we see on TV today.
I go to a performing arts high school and i am currently learning about Martha Graham in MODERN class and this piece is a modern piece. My teachers went to school for this. So I am sorry to burst YOUR bubble but this is Modern.
of course i knew Martha Graham before google take me to this video , but today is her birthday and i came here just to say....Happy Birthday Martha Graham...the best of the best!
@mohsen2024 have you ever tried a class of graham??? its incredible hard to learn this contemporary technique you need lots of strenght and flexibility... Google celebrates this amazing woman because she changed the dance arround the world...
Mind you, this art form is for people connected with his or her feelings, not for the post-modern dryness of the soul. We all suffer of course, but there's a tendency to deny it. This dance embraces that fact.
Anyone know what year this is from? Martha could not have been young, Amazing that she was still active and dancing at that age. This is a wonderful example of her style.
@Herooftimex Look past the obvious and read the intro carefully. She is expressing the pain, depression and madness of the situation through dance. You'll get it, just have to pay close attention....this is an art.
Thumbs up if you wouldn't have known there were gonna be "thumbs up if you already knew there were gonna be comments saying "thumbs up if google brought you here""
PETER GLUSHANOK!!!! probably the greatest cinematographer of dance.... ever! Would that he'd been commissioned to photograph ALL the great works of Graham. But just to have this, and the Appalachian Spring.... superb. And this is one of William Schumann's best scores.
Alexander Hammid (Maya Deren's first husband) directed it, Peter was the cinematographer? I agree, this and Appalachian Spring are absolutely to best example of a dance created for the proscenium stage artfully interpreted through film.
Martha Graham was a link between ballet and modern. For example, 100% ballet would be the swan lake. groups like the ballet russe came after that (sacre de printemps etc.) dancers like Martha Graham came after the ballet russe which would then follow in the "full fledged" modern dance we see today.
Graham as an artist did not evolve from ballet, just the opposite, she and the other Modern Dance pioneers were rebelling against ballet. Ballet and Modern have been fusing much more the last 20 years, but Martha was part of a separate lineage.
I hate to burst your little bubble, but in general, ballet refers to any kind of dance descended from the dances incorporated into early operas (Monteverdi, Lully, etc.), just like the term "classical music" means Cavalli and Shostakovitch.
Yay Google! You taught me bout the woman who invented psycho dance! :D lawl. Just kidding I read her bio and she is a very amazing woman(: I noticed a lot of her moves resembled to the break dancing that I do, So if it weren't for her I probably would be popping it to some sick dub step(: Thanks Martha Grahan! (&& goodle:P)(:
Yes, Google brought me here... moving on... Her influence on dance has been compared with Stravinsky w/Music & Picasso w/Art. I'm a Singer now & used to Dance (obviously not as well as her or you'd be looking me up instead). I'm confused though. Maybe I'm abusing the rewind button on my DVR when I watch DWTS & think I know more than I actually do about dance but, it looked completely out of sync & I only know the story of what happened because it was in the description. Beautiful just confusing.
Modern dance is not the same thing as ballet. Not all dance outside of traditional cultural dances are ballet. Modern dance technique derives certain elements from balletic dance technique, but that does not make it ballet. If you were to watch the most recent dance that I choreographed you could easily at points find balletic dance movement within it, but the dance is far from being ballet. Instead it is modern/post-modern.
That was my first impression, but am I wrong thinking there is a little jazz in this too? Many of their moves remind me of stuff you see in West Side Story. Had to watch this for a humanities class, pretty interesting.
It's about Oedipus, who killed his father and married his mother, unawares. This dance is Jocasta (the mother) reflecting on her life before she committs suicide upon learning the truth. ... I have to write a two page essay on this.. T_T
forgive me for weighing in on the dance as opposed to the attractiveness of this male dancer. this is a game-changer and contemporary dance. I will never forget the first time I saw this I wanted to dance until I died
It's sad how many people feel the need to troll this video because of it's unique and artful content... Just to get a rise out of people. Do us all a favour and keep your negitive comments to yourselves.
Ballet is a style and form of dance. You wouldn't call Jazz ballet? The characteristics of a form of dance is what makes it a style. Jazz. Ballet. Hip Hop. MODERN.
But yeah, I came here via Google Doodle too. Martha Graham's Doodle doesn't quite top Robert Bunsen's Doodle, but it's pretty close. :) It's kind of odd that I know Isadora Duncan pretty well, but I hardly knew Martha Graham before that Doodle came up. So that was enriching. Who says the internet makes you stupid? And even though this dance is a Tragedy, I can't help but think that the chorus dancers are adorable, especially the one doing the footy dance at 3:18. Is that so wrong? :-/
Martha Graham...Fantastic Dance Artist and choreographer....I was introduced to this amazing lady in my teens whilst studying dance history and I have been amazed since...legend x
You guys have to remember that back then no one had done these types of dance moves before. All of this later influenced on dance and modernized into what we see on TV today.
You will never see something like this nowadays.This is fantastic
expression here is like flooding everything in its way !!!!! yesssss
This is the most incredible piece of choreography that I have ever seen.
I go to a performing arts high school and i am currently learning about Martha Graham in MODERN class and this piece is a modern piece. My teachers went to school for this. So I am sorry to burst YOUR bubble but this is Modern.
There's a reason I don't watch ballet...
And I wrote that before I saw Tiresias on his pogo stick.
that was the only part i really liked lol
of course i knew Martha Graham before google take me to this video , but today is her birthday and i came here just to say....Happy Birthday Martha Graham...the best of the best!
@mohsen2024 have you ever tried a class of graham??? its incredible hard to learn this contemporary technique you need lots of strenght and flexibility... Google celebrates this amazing woman because she changed the dance arround the world...
If I were this athletic, I think that'll be totally the kind of dancing I'd do. I love these vivid and emotional moves.
BEAUTIFUL. THIS MAKES ME WANT TO LIVE MY LIFE TO ITS FULLEST. THANK YOU MARTHA XXXX
that was breathtaking ... So vivid and strong.. wow..
Madonna used to dance with Martha Graham's group when she was in her twenties. Thank you for posting this video.
-------Ellen
She really isss the pioneer of modern and contemporary dance that we see now..
thnx google for enlightenin' us on things we never thought existed!!
google is the teacher who makes us find knowledge of history on our own!!
After know it is Martha Graham's 117th Birthday on google, i came here. the animation is freaking cool btw !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Google sent me here and I thank him for the first time because I know this great ballerina
Google showed me Martha Graham as well...That`s really nice!
this is not ballet this is modern dance and clearly if you dont know the difference between them its good that theres a reason you dont watch it
today i learn about martha grahan, thank google!
i never liked the dance, but this... oh my... her passion, amazing.
Mind you, this art form is for people connected with his or her feelings, not for the post-modern dryness of the soul. We all suffer of course, but there's a tendency to deny it. This dance embraces that fact.
OMG!!! Call me whatever you want, but I have never seen something that bored me more than this one here!!!!
is great!!!!! Gracias Google por mostrarnos a tan genial exponente de la danza
I admire the skill and talent that goes into something like this but godd god this creeeps me the hell out!
Dance, Gender, and Culture?! Where at? As a recipient of a dual degree in dance and women's studies, that sounds like my kinda class! :)
watching this hurts eyes and brain... this is no art this is pain...
WOW I've searched all the performances that were in the google doodle and this one is my favorite along with lamentation
Anyone know what year this is from? Martha could not have been young, Amazing that she was still active and dancing at that age. This is a wonderful example of her style.
Unfortunately I needed google to know such marvelous dancer.
Fortunately now I know her because of google!
@Herooftimex
Look past the obvious and read the intro carefully. She is expressing the pain, depression and madness of the situation through dance. You'll get it, just have to pay close attention....this is an art.
Thumbs up if you wouldn't have known there were gonna be "thumbs up if you already knew there were gonna be comments saying "thumbs up if google brought you here""
PETER GLUSHANOK!!!! probably the greatest cinematographer of dance.... ever! Would that he'd been commissioned to photograph ALL the great works of Graham. But just to have this, and the Appalachian Spring.... superb. And this is one of William Schumann's best scores.
Alexander Hammid (Maya Deren's first husband) directed it, Peter was the cinematographer? I agree, this and Appalachian Spring are absolutely to best example of a dance created for the proscenium stage artfully interpreted through film.
@tubertomp As the person said before, yes in 91, google actually said this is her 117th birthday, so yeah she was almost 100 when she died.
holy shit. that was so memorizing.
Now I know why Sadako from "The Ring" gets under peoples skin ... Thank you Martha Graham
paso por aca, por una tarea del cole, que video tan viejo, WOW HACE 13 AÑOS
Dieu Vo: It's a retelling of the legend of OEDIPUS REX, but from the view of Jocasta. The figure with the staff is Tiresias.
Martha Graham was a link between ballet and modern. For example, 100% ballet would be the swan lake. groups like the ballet russe came after that (sacre de printemps etc.) dancers like Martha Graham came after the ballet russe which would then follow in the "full fledged" modern dance we see today.
Graham as an artist did not evolve from ballet, just the opposite, she and the other Modern Dance pioneers were rebelling against ballet. Ballet and Modern have been fusing much more the last 20 years, but Martha was part of a separate lineage.
روعة صراحتا ..it's really fantastic
I hate to burst your little bubble, but in general, ballet refers to any kind of dance descended from the dances incorporated into early operas (Monteverdi, Lully, etc.), just like the term "classical music" means Cavalli and Shostakovitch.
Yay Google! You taught me bout the woman who invented psycho dance! :D lawl. Just kidding I read her bio and she is a very amazing woman(: I noticed a lot of her moves resembled to the break dancing that I do, So if it weren't for her I probably would be popping it to some sick dub step(: Thanks Martha Grahan! (&& goodle:P)(:
The master.
Thanks for posting!
Which is the reason that Martha graham is seen as one of the mothers of modern dance.
it's great that back then it didn't rly matter if you went out of sync :O
Yes, Google brought me here... moving on... Her influence on dance has been compared with Stravinsky w/Music & Picasso w/Art. I'm a Singer now & used to Dance (obviously not as well as her or you'd be looking me up instead). I'm confused though. Maybe I'm abusing the rewind button on my DVR when I watch DWTS & think I know more than I actually do about dance but, it looked completely out of sync & I only know the story of what happened because it was in the description. Beautiful just confusing.
Hooray for Google educating us on the fine arts!
There was a post with 900+ thumbs up a few hours ago why did it get deleted?
Modern dance is not the same thing as ballet. Not all dance outside of traditional cultural dances are ballet. Modern dance technique derives certain elements from balletic dance technique, but that does not make it ballet. If you were to watch the most recent dance that I choreographed you could easily at points find balletic dance movement within it, but the dance is far from being ballet. Instead it is modern/post-modern.
Thumbs up if you have learned more from Google than School LOL
For those of you implying that this is ballet...
Do your research.
This is not ballet.
It is modern dance.
That was my first impression, but am I wrong thinking there is a little jazz in this too? Many of their moves remind me of stuff you see in West Side Story. Had to watch this for a humanities class, pretty interesting.
First time I see her... now, I feel home like...
@falalaxfearless Is it really coincidental or do you think your teacher knew about Martha's b-day?
I love todays google animation, but i think i love this more :)
this is beatiful
WOW just WOW at power of Gogole!
Superb in every detail. And I see there's a recording of the score on Naxos -- that'll be a must-own disc!
today's google homepage made me look her up :)
@Ingretto Do you have two left feet by any chance?
great!, but what is it about? can any1 tell me?!!!
@TEAMOGANGER es la mejor cantante que existe! I love u mom moster
It's about Oedipus, who killed his father and married his mother, unawares. This dance is Jocasta (the mother) reflecting on her life before she committs suicide upon learning the truth.
... I have to write a two page essay on this.. T_T
Saww her cool animation thingy on google thought id watch this to see watch shes all about :) pretty cool
Gorgeous dancing.
I want me one of them dresses. :(
totally love this!!!!!
Ignore trolls they don't even know what proper trolling is. But any way I love all forms of art and this one is so interesting!
Happy Birthday Martha! 5/11/11. I heard about you today, thanks to Google! :-)
Baby you were Born This Way :P I have a feeling the choreography in Lady Gaga's latest work was inspired by Martha.
And that's how short shorts came into style
Love the guy on the pogo stick.
4.16 is how I enter every room. For real.
forgive me for weighing in on the dance as opposed to the attractiveness of this male dancer. this is a game-changer and contemporary dance. I will never forget the first time I saw this I wanted to dance until I died
It's sad how many people feel the need to troll this video because of it's unique and artful content... Just to get a rise out of people. Do us all a favour and keep your negitive comments to yourselves.
Ballet is a style and form of dance. You wouldn't call Jazz ballet? The characteristics of a form of dance is what makes it a style. Jazz. Ballet. Hip Hop. MODERN.
the first time I've known about this woman. Thanks to google :))
@KittyKillerKSimonel the best I've seen so far :)
why wouldn't you just post the ending? .... it was so close
Wow this is soo cool! Except I was a little disturbed when that guy turned around and I saw his many thong type thing o.o
does anyone know who the music composer is?
@0195rainbow Lady Gaga's moves wouldn't exist without Martha Graham
enjoyed it...Thx google!
So this is where Lady GaGa came up with her creepy dance moves.
It is Schönberg... mean that I can't understand.
i love the google picture
Thumps up if you look for a Martha Graham video after seeing the google logo!
happy 117th birthday!
That wasnt the entire video.
That's why it's called a clip.
lol when they started to wobble around on their knees XD
Beautiful :)
Is it the music or is the dance in a kind of scary-scratchy-puppet-marionet style...
who is this ?
But yeah, I came here via Google Doodle too. Martha Graham's Doodle doesn't quite top Robert Bunsen's Doodle, but it's pretty close. :)
It's kind of odd that I know Isadora Duncan pretty well, but I hardly knew Martha Graham before that Doodle came up. So that was enriching. Who says the internet makes you stupid?
And even though this dance is a Tragedy, I can't help but think that the chorus dancers are adorable, especially the one doing the footy dance at 3:18. Is that so wrong? :-/
my best decision of the day was to click on the google animation today!!! :)
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Happy Birthday :)
now i know where Lady Gaga's dance style comes from
Google notified me of Martha Graham
Highschool educated me of Oedipus Rex
i want to know how the sheet music looked like on this music oO
It reminds a little bit of the Indian dance O.O