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he line. The leap. The leg kick. It is arguably by far the most sophisticated Google Doodle yet.
The people at Google celebrate what would have already been pioneering dancer/choreographer Martha Graham’s 117th birthday having a beguiling short animation by “motiongrapher
“Dance may be the hidden language of the soul,” mentioned the mother of modern day dance, who died in 1991 in New York, at age 96.
Graham invented her own language of movement that revolutionized dance. Her honors over a legendary profession 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 Corporation is the oldest dance provider inside the Usa.
“Graham was far from the very first dancer to rip off her toe shoes and break together with the rigid conventions of 19th century ballet. ... ,” mentioned Terry Teachout, writing for Time magazine in 1998. “But it was her homegrown method - the fierce pelvic contractions, the rugged ‘floor work’ that startled people that took for granted that actual dancers soared through the air - that caught on, becoming the cornerstone of postwar contemporary dance.
“Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Mark Morris - all are Graham’s youngsters and grandchildren
Woodward, the animator, caught Comic Riffs’s eye final December with his fluidly gorgeous animation “Thought of You.”
“It was genuinely terrific to perform with Dancers and Choreographers from the Martha Graham Dance Corporation in New York on this,” Woodward, the Utah-based animator and storyboard artist, wrote of the creation of this Google Doodle.
Woodward has worked on two from the “Spider-Man” function films and has worked for director Jon Favreau on each “Iron Man 2” and also the upcoming “Cowboys & Aliens.” His latest project is as a storyboard artist on 2012’s “Snow White and the Hunstman,” featuring “Thor” star Chris Hemsworth plus the Oscar-winning Charlize Theron.
Early Wednesday (ET), Woodward tweeted: “The Google.com Doodle traffic just crashed both my websites
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