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    [Letter from Martha Graham to William Schuman, August 12, 1946, with draft script of Tam Lin] Location: Old Music Division Correspondence. For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Graham, Martha - Schuman, William
    • Date: 1946

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    American Document Location: Martha Graham Collection, Box 321. For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu010008 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Graham, Martha
    • Date: 1942

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    [Photograph of Heretic by Soichi Sunami] from Dance Magazine, July 1929 Location: Martha Graham Collection, Box 308. For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu010008 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Graham, Martha - Sunami, Soichi
    • Date: 1929
  • Collection
    Martha Graham at the Library of Congress (clockwise from top left) The Dance: Washington Festival [review]; "Graham Presents Copland's Ballet" [clipping] by Oscar Thompson; A unique dance by Martha Graham [clipping], 1926; [Tangara], photograph of Martha Graham. Dancer, choreographer, and company director Martha Graham (1894-1991) is considered one of the pioneering founders of American modern dance. In a career spanning over seven decades, Graham developed her own innovative technique and produced...
    • Contributor: Barber, Samuel - Riegger, Wallingford - Noguchi, Isamu - Hovhaness, Alan - Emmons, Beverly - Starer, Robert - Horst, Louis - Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance - Graham (Martha) Collection (Library of Congress) - Karan, Donna ... Barber, Samuel - Riegger, Wallingford - Noguchi, Isamu - Hovhaness, Alan - Emmons, Beverly - Starer, Robert - Horst, Louis - Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance - Graham (Martha) Collection (Library of Congress) - Karan, Donna - Tipton, Jennifer - Copland, Aaron - Graham, Martha - El-Dabh, Halim - Lester, Eugene - Weissberger, L. Arnold - Ter-Arutunian, Rouben - Dello Joio, Norman - Hindemith, Paul - Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance - Schuman, William - Martha Graham Dance Company - Rosenthal, Jean - Menotti, Gian Carlo - Skelton, Thomas R.
    • Date: 1896

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    Sallie R. Wagner collection, 1949-1992 Sallie R. Wagner was a photographer, author, weaver, and a benefactor and patron of the dancer Erick Hawkins and his dance company. The collection is composed chiefly of correspondence to Sallie R. Wagner (and some addressed to William J. Lippincott, her then-husband) from Erick Hawkins, Martha Graham, and Lucia Dlugoszewski. It also includes several essays written by Hawkins, Dlugoszewski, and Robert Motherwell, and two...
    • Contributor: Dlugoszewski, Lucia - Wagner, Sallie R. - Motherwell, Robert - Hawkins, Erick - Graham, Martha
    • Date: 1949
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Martha Graham collection, 1896-2003 Martha Graham was an American modern dancer, choreographer, teacher and company director. The Martha Graham Collection is comprised of materials that document her career and trace the history of the development of her company, Martha Graham Dance Company, which became the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, and school, Martha Graham School, later to be called the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance.
    • Contributor: Graham, Martha - El-Dabh, Halim - Riegger, Wallingford - Horst, Louis - Barber, Samuel - Weissberger, L. Arnold - Lester, Eugene - Menotti, Gian Carlo - Schuman, William - Karan, Donna ... Graham, Martha - El-Dabh, Halim - Riegger, Wallingford - Horst, Louis - Barber, Samuel - Weissberger, L. Arnold - Lester, Eugene - Menotti, Gian Carlo - Schuman, William - Karan, Donna - Noguchi, Isamu - Rosenthal, Jean - Tipton, Jennifer - Dello Joio, Norman - Skelton, Thomas R. - Hovhaness, Alan - Hindemith, Paul - Emmons, Beverly - Ter-Arutunian, Rouben - Copland, Aaron - Starer, Robert
    • Date: 1896
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Holiday Dance Festival Announcement for the period of December 26-31, 1939. Includes notice of Martha Graham performances on December 27, 29 and 30. Location: Martha Graham Collection, Box 316. For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu010008 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Graham, Martha
    • Date: 1939

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    Research materials on Martha Graham, 1928-2023 Martha Graham (1894-1991) was an internationally acclaimed modern dance choreographer and performer of the twentieth century. The Research Materials on Martha Graham is an artificial collection conceived to assemble the documentation of Martha Graham's legacy generated from projects funded by a 1998 grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF). The collection includes transcripts of interviews, photographs, performance and event programs, clippings and publications,...
    • Contributor: O'Donnell, May - Graham, Martha - Robbins, Jerome - Barnes, Thea - Horst, Louis - Dudley, Jane - Hinkson, Mary - Lauterer, Arch - Maslow, Sophie - Macy, Gertrude ... O'Donnell, May - Graham, Martha - Robbins, Jerome - Barnes, Thea - Horst, Louis - Dudley, Jane - Hinkson, Mary - Lauterer, Arch - Maslow, Sophie - Macy, Gertrude - Noguchi, Isamu - Melville, Nan - McGehee, Helen - Go, Taijirō - Fonaroff, Nina - Hodes, Stuart - Yuriko - Lang, Pearl - Baryshnikov, Mikhail - Bernstein, Leonard
    • Date: 1928