Martha Graham: Live in Your Time….Interview with James Grissom By Telephone, 1990….

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Martha Graham in Letter to the World, 1940. Photo: Barbara Morgan (1900-1992)

It is perfectly acceptable to be imitative, particularly when you are young, when you are trying to understand the shape of a stage and how your body works on it. You use your history, whatever it is, and mine included so many people with whom I had studied or who had lived in my mind and heart for so long. People were correct to see traces of these people in my movements and in my choreography.

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