In 1992, while interviewing choreographer Agnes de Mille for my biography of Rebecca West, we digressed to discuss the publication of her recent biography of a friend, Martha Graham. De Mille looked ...

A recent biography dives into the choreographer's role as both an artist and figure of early American modernism. Martha Graham performing in 1962. (Photo by Jack Mitchell / Getty Images) Martha Graham ...

Martha Graham's dance, Letter to the World, depicted the life of Emily Dickinson. Martha Graham played the role of Emily Dickinson. Little more than a half-mile separates the 19 th-century North Side ...

In 1929 an American critic, Henry McBride, observed that “the centre of the world has shifted” from Paris to New York. America did not just have cultural capital—it was becoming the West’s cultural ...

Graham, the great modern dance choreographer, named him her heir, setting off a bitter legal battle between him and the troupe she founded. By Trip Gabriel It can feel overwhelming to watch a dance.