Word: leatherman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Necessities & Joys. How she fashioned the fluidly muscular style that made her the founding mother of modern dance "is one of the mysteries," says Leatherman, "but her approach to it is plainly visible in the technique itself. Many of its basic elements are centered in the pelvic and genital regions, and Martha's bluntness in teaching them shocks the innocent." She teaches her "virile gestures" at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in Manhattan, where housewives and movie stars glory in "the miracle of the foot." "One must be ruthless to teach," she says, and students have learned...
...tour is a celebration of Martha Graham's 50th anniversary as a dancer, a career that is thoroughly chronicled in a new book, Martha Graham: Portrait of the Lady as an Artist* by Leroy Leatherman, her manager for the past 13 years. Though it tends to be overly idolatrous, the biography is an engrossing study of the woman and the creative forces that shaped her art. Beginning with the days when Graham performed tangos and apache dances in the Greenwich Village Follies, Leatherman traces her development through her early-American period (she is a descendant of Miles Standish...