Martha Graham mother of modern dance

Animated Google Doodle Honors 117th Birthday of Dancer Martha Graham.

Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 — April 1, 1991) was an American dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Stravinsky had on music, Picasso had on the visual arts, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture.

She danced and choreographed for over seventy years. Graham was the first dancer ever to perform at The White House, travel abroad as a cultural ambassador, and receive the highest civilian award of the USA: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In her lifetime she received honors ranging from the Key to the City of Paris to Japan's Imperial Order of the Precious Crown. She said, "I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.

Martha Graham, the U.S. choreographer who helped to pioneer modern dance, would have been 117 today.


And to mark the anniversary, she has been celebrated by Google's third doodle of the month so far, which is another animated one.

The doodle shows dancers performing a series of flowing, emphatic Graham-esque moves. The whirling trails of their limbs spell out the six letters of the search engine's name.


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The Ballet Girls

Kimberly Jaraj

We heard so much about Black Swan with Natalie Portman winning awards for the movie. The movie was criticized for its harsh portrayal of the world of ballet where everything is taken too seriously and the girls are under immense pressure.

Kimberly Jaraj, is a former pupil of the Royal Ballet School and now she is focusing on her acting career. She gives the details on how things are even worse in reality at the ballet schools

The 22 year old actress explained candidly that it is a really hard profession. Some girls would cry everyday because of the pressure. Kimberly attended the school from the age of eight. She was not pressured for being skinny because she weighed fine but other girls did. The girls were weighed frequently and so the pressure was always there. Kimberly was often questioned about her height that when her dad is 6 feet and her mom is 5 ft 6in than why is she not taller. At that time, Kimberly had no answer.

The teachers would be so strict and every little thing such as the pink ribbon in your hair could even be a reason to insult you. They could just tell you to sit out if one small thing went wrong.

Also Kimberly openly said how these people were so prejudiced. They didn't care about ethnicities or respect everybody. They didn't even accept somebody who was not white or Christian according to Kimberly.

Well, I have seen one movie on this subject before also and it is often shown how tough it is for little girls to cope with this sort of treatment. They go crazy to lose weight and to be perfect Their feet are always bleeding with hours of practice. It is torturous though I feel. And if these guys were prejudiced too the way Kimberly has mentioned, this is quite bad. It is a form of art and what sort of art disrespects ethnicities? I wouldn't ever want to be a part of such an activity.