The pelvis as a focus: Marta Graham, a grammar

Abstract

The American dancer and choreographer Marta Graham (1894 - 1991) inaugurates not only a new way of organizing narrativity and claims in the scene, but how to insert the female body into another kinesthetic and kinetic agenda. With the justification of the need to pay attention to psychological traits, he organizes training with adjustments especially in floor work  whose emphasis is on the female pelvis. She herself lends her body to trial and error for what is called the “pelvic truth” house. Today, the vocabulary and syntax of the Graham technique share notoriety, but do not confer its diffusion for requiring unfeasible expenditure in a world “in a hurry”. The technique survives in the midst of the current miscellany of procedures to arrive at the scene.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.56238/sevened2023.006-026