The motion system developed by Martha Graham is known worldwide as a training method to an expressive, visceral and poetic body. What the artist craved was the unveiling of the human soul, communicated through an artistic language that demanded absolute discipline and concentration.
Martha Graham was one of the biggest names in modern dance and American ground one of the few modern dance techniques used to this day. However, his biggest goal was not encode a technique, but rather express the inner man, reveal human emotions.
To develop their works, Graham ended structuring a technique that allows the exploitation of such expressiveness, but like most modern dancers, arrived late to the dance.
Thus, through his extensive repertoire and distinctive technique, Martha Graham profoundly transformed the vocabulary of dance, creating than those established by ballet hitherto existing codes, and changing the course of history of dance in the twentieth century. Thus paved the way for what we now call contemporary dance.