A Dancer's World

TV Movie
1957
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31m

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Dancer, Choreographer, and Teacher Martha Graham offers insight into her theories about dance while the members of her world famous troupe display a number of their dance techniques in perfo... Read allDancer, Choreographer, and Teacher Martha Graham offers insight into her theories about dance while the members of her world famous troupe display a number of their dance techniques in performance.Dancer, Choreographer, and Teacher Martha Graham offers insight into her theories about dance while the members of her world famous troupe display a number of their dance techniques in performance.

Director
- Peter Glushanok
Writers
- Martha Graham
- LeRoy Leatherman
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6.5/10

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Director
- Peter Glushanok
Writers
- Martha Graham
- LeRoy Leatherman
Stars

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Even though she had spent much of her life performing for large audiences and had been filmed before, Martha Graham still found herself too afraid of the camera to speak to it when she was being filmed in her studio. After losing a day of shooting when Graham locked herself in her dressing room and refused to come out, producer Nathan Kroll came up with the idea to film Graham as she was in her dressing room dressing for a performance. This idea worked, as Graham was able to occupy herself with her make-up and costumes as she delivered her lines, making her significantly less nervous.

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6/10

Modern Dance Sixty Years Ago

This half-hour TV special aired sixty years ago. Agnes Demille appears briefly, then speaks in voice-over as a troupe of a dozen dancers perform in a rehearsal studio; she then returns, talking about how dancers are examples of the "divine normal." Apparently, if you work really hard, you can perform in groups of four.

It's a joyless celebration of beauty, and Miss Demille is a lecturing, stern schoolmarm with a weird-looking giant hairpin drawing the viewer's attention, whose message is....

Well, I'm not sure. the dancing is very good, the camerawork byPeter Glushanok is beautifully composed and the editing by Eleanor Hamerow keeps the dancers in view, with enough variety to avoid boredom. I can only conclude that Miss Demille was possessed of a great talent which she could not explain in English.