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.

This is the most incredible piece of choreography that I have ever seen.

that was breathtaking ... So vivid and strong.. wow..

You will never see something like this nowadays.This is fantastic

BEAUTIFUL. THIS MAKES ME WANT TO LIVE MY LIFE TO ITS FULLEST. THANK YOU MARTHA XXXX

expression here is like flooding everything in its way !!!!! yesssss

There's a reason I don't watch ballet... And I wrote that before I saw Tiresias on his pogo stick.

@jamesj6746

4 жыл бұрын

that was the only part i really liked lol

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.

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.

The master. Thanks for posting!

totally love this!!!!!

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!

is great!!!!! Gracias Google por mostrarnos a tan genial exponente de la danza

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!!

Madonna used to dance with Martha Graham's group when she was in her twenties. Thank you for posting this video. -------Ellen

WOW I've searched all the performances that were in the google doodle and this one is my favorite along with lamentation

Superb in every detail. And I see there's a recording of the score on Naxos -- that'll be a must-own disc!

روعة صراحتا ..it's really fantastic

@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...

Google sent me here and I thank him for the first time because I know this great ballerina

google is the teacher who makes us find knowledge of history on our own!!

Google showed me Martha Graham as well...That`s really nice!

holy shit. that was so memorizing.

i never liked the dance, but this... oh my... her passion, amazing.

Beautiful :)

this is beatiful

today i learn about martha grahan, thank google!

After know it is Martha Graham's 117th Birthday on google, i came here. the animation is freaking cool btw !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I admire the skill and talent that goes into something like this but godd god this creeeps me the hell out!

Paul Taylor as Tiresius! He is 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.

Great VID! . . .

Gorgeous dancing. I want me one of them dresses. :(

WOW just WOW at power of Gogole!

OMG!!! Call me whatever you want, but I have never seen something that bored me more than this one here!!!!

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)(:

Unfortunately I needed google to know such marvelous dancer. Fortunately now I know her because of google!

enjoyed it...Thx google!

Love the guy on the pogo stick.

I love todays google animation, but i think i love this more :)

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.

@susankennedy5739

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@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.

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.

@susankennedy5739

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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

Which is the reason that Martha graham is seen as one of the mothers of modern dance.

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.

First time I see her... now, I feel home like...

me encanta de sobremanera...

watching this hurts eyes and brain... this is no art this is pain...

@TEAMOGANGER es la mejor cantante que existe! I love u mom moster

Now I know why Sadako from "The Ring" gets under peoples skin ... Thank you Martha Graham

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""

Happy Birthday Martha! 5/11/11. I heard about you today, thanks to Google! :-)

paso por aca, por una tarea del cole, que video tan viejo, WOW HACE 13 AÑOS

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! :)

lol when they started to wobble around on their knees XD

the first time I've known about this woman. Thanks to google :))

@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.

very nice!

bella danza

@KittyKillerKSimonel the best I've seen so far :)

Happy Birthday :)

it's great that back then it didn't rly matter if you went out of sync :O

Saww her cool animation thingy on google thought id watch this to see watch shes all about :) pretty cool

مشكوور كتيييير رووووووووعه تحيتي

today's google homepage made me look her up :)

Great!

happy 117th birthday!

4.16 is how I enter every room. For real.

@rechevere It says in the beginning credits!

Haha...I am taking this course at Texas Woman's University. ^_^

siento que nace del vientre como la musica, bisceralmente, rompiendo mis esquemas de la danza clasica.

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.

Hooray for Google educating us on the fine arts!

@Ingretto Do you have two left feet by any chance?

i love the google picture

@tubertomp yes she did in 1991

@oktoberfest1984 Haha, yes i thought the same about that! She dances very amazing. I like it!

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

For those of you implying that this is ballet... Do your research. This is not ballet. It is modern dance.

@NeelyFernandez

6 жыл бұрын

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.

There was a post with 900+ thumbs up a few hours ago why did it get deleted?

And that's how short shorts came into style

does anyone know who the music composer is?

great!, but what is it about? can any1 tell me?!!!

It reminds a little bit of the Indian dance O.O

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!

Baby you were Born This Way :P I have a feeling the choreography in Lady Gaga's latest work was inspired by Martha.

WELL AHEAD FOR HER TIME

i want to know how the sheet music looked like on this music oO

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

madnessssssssssss

4:15 lol! Grandpa jumpz!

my best decision of the day was to click on the google animation today!!! :)

@0195rainbow Lady Gaga's moves wouldn't exist without Martha Graham

@Preseid Sure^^

thank you google :)

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.

first i was like: o.o!! then i was: :'D!!!