Awards & Winners

Martha Graham

Date of Birth 11-May-1894
Place of Birth Allegheny County
(Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Choreographer, Screenwriter
Martha Graham was an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso had on the modern visual arts, Stravinsky had on music, 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, in the 1994 documentary "The Dancer Revealed", "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."

Awards by Martha Graham

Check all the awards nominated and won by Martha Graham.

1979


Kennedy Center Honors

Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography Great Performances: Dance in America
Martha Graham Dance Company: Clytemnestra

1977


Nominations 1977 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Classical Program - Performing Arts Great Performances: Dance in America
Martha Graham Dance Company