Wednesday, May 11, 2011

GOOGLE DOODLE: Today’s Animation Celebrates Dance Pioneer Martha Graham


he line. The leap. The leg kick. It really is arguably probably the most elegant Google Doodle nevertheless.

The people at Google celebrate what would have already been pioneering dancer/choreographer Martha Graham’s 117th birthday with a beguiling brief animation by “motiongrapher
“Dance would be the hidden language with the soul,” stated the mother of modern day dance, who died in 1991 in New York, at age 96.

Graham invented her very own language of movement that revolutionized dance. Her honors more than a legendary career included the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1976), and she was inducted into the National Museum of Dance C.V. Whitney Hall of Fame in 1987. Her Martha Graham Dance Company is the oldest dance provider inside the United states.

“Graham was far from the initial dancer to rip off her toe shoes and break with the rigid conventions of 19th century ballet. ... ,” said Terry Teachout, writing for Time magazine in 1998. “But it was her homegrown method - the fierce pelvic contractions, the rugged ‘floor work’ that startled individuals who took for granted that real dancers soared as a result of the air - that caught on, becoming the cornerstone of postwar modern day dance.



“Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Mark Morris - all are Graham’s youngsters and grandchildren







Woodward, the animator, caught Comic Riffs’s eye last December with his fluidly wonderful animation “Thought of You.”

“It was definitely terrific to operate with Dancers and Choreographers from the Martha Graham Dance Company in New York on this,” Woodward, the Utah-based animator and storyboard artist, wrote with the creation of this Google Doodle.

Woodward has worked on two from the “Spider-Man” characteristic films and has worked for director Jon Favreau on both “Iron Man 2” and the upcoming “Cowboys & Aliens.” His latest project is as a storyboard artist on 2012’s “Snow White and also the Hunstman,” featuring “Thor” star Chris Hemsworth and also the Oscar-winning Charlize Theron.

Early Wednesday (ET), Woodward tweeted: “The Google.com Doodle traffic just crashed each my websites

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