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Released on DVD as part of The Criterion Collection's "Martha Graham: Dance on Film" collection.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action,
and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. 
And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. 
The world will not have it.. Dance Film Based on Martha Graham's Vitality featuring Canadian Dancer and teacher Alayna Kellet. Narrated by Avaah Blackwell.

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One of the great artistic forces of the 20th century, performer, choreographer, and teacher Martha Graham influenced dance around the world. Criterion presents a showcase of her impressive artistry, all in collaboration with television arts programming pioneer Nathan Kroll.

Martha Graham narrates as two dancers demonstrate her technique.

These four films, shot between 1931 and 1944, document the innovative choreography of Martha Graham, one of the most influential dancers of the 20th century. Graham stars in all four films - "Heretic," "Frontier," "Lamentation" and "Appalachian Spring"

In this video, dancers move about a set designed by Mike Kelley, interacting and silently commenting on various choreographies: Martha Graham’s “mythological” dances, gestures derived from the observation of monkeys’ behaviours in Harry Harlow’s experiments conducted in the 1960s, and violent, “cathartic” behaviours described in the films by the psychologist Albert Bandura about the effects of televised violence on preschool-aged children.

Heretic is a modern dance work by Martha Graham performed to Tetus Breton, an old folk tune from Brittany.

A silent color film of Martha Graham dancing extracts of "Lamentation".

A glimpse into the world and methodology of dancer Martha Graham.

When Floss stays with her godmother Lillian after the death of her mother, the pair form an unlikely friendship.