Martha Graham received many awards during her lifetime. Time magazine       her as the “Dancer of the Century” in 1998. The Martha Graham Dance Company still performs her dances.
After       fourteen, Martha’s family moved to California. Along the way, Martha enjoyed the wide, open spaces of      . So the free, expressive movements of modern dance were       influenced by the beauty of nature.
Earlier in her life, however, Martha did not know she would become a      . Her family was very religious. The upper class did not accept dance as an art form.
      , in 1910, Martha’s father took her to see a dance performance, which then       her.
Martha’s parents, however, did not          her sudden desire to dance. Martha just followed her      of dancing. She attended the dance school, working       hard as to improve her ability to dance. She      her body to become strong enough to meet the difficult demands of dance. In order to       herself freely, she decided to set up her own dance       and school, called the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance.
Martha enjoyed having her students to perform her dances. She       a dance called “Heretic” in 1929. She wore all white and danced       a wall of dancers wearing all black. In 1936, her dance “Chronicle” expressed sadness and loneliness. Showing strong          in dance then was very rare. At first, people did not          well to her style of dancing with strong and sharp movements,        and very different from European ballet. Some of the movements      contracting(收缩) and releasing parts of the body.
In 1938, President Roosevelt’s wife invited Martha to   55   at the White House. A dance “American Document” was created. She later danced there for seven other presidents.

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