Choreography
This excerpt from John Martin’s reviews in the New York Times provides insight on Graham’s choreographic style. “Frequently the vividness and intensity of her purpose are so potent that on the rise of the curtain they strike like a blow, and in that moment one must decide whether he is for or against her. She boils down her moods and movements until they are devoid of all extraneous substances and are concentrated to the highest degree.”
See also category: Ballets by Martha Graham| Year | Performance | Music | Notes |
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| 1926 | Chorale | César Franck | |
| 1926 | Novelette | Robert Schumann | |
| 1927 | Lugubre | Alexander Scriabin | |
| 1927 | Revolt | Arthur Honegger | |
| 1927 | Fragilité | Alexander Scriabin | |
| 1927 | Scherza | Robert Schumann | |
| 1929 | Figure of a Saint | George Frideric Handel | |
| 1929 | Resurrection | Tibor Harsányi | |
| 1929 | Adolescence | Paul Hindemith | |
| 1929 | Danza | Darius Milhaud | |
| 1929 | "Vision of the Apocalypse" | Hermann Reutter | |
| 1929 | Moment Rustica | Francis Poulenc | |
| 1929 | Heretic | from folklore | old Breton song—de Sivry |
| 1930 | Lamentation | Zoltán Kodály | |
| 1930 | Harlequinade | Ernst Toch | |
| 1931 | Primitive Mysteries | Louis Horst | |
| 1931 | Bacchanale | Wallingford Riegger | |
| 1931 | Dolorosa | Heitor Villa-Lobos | |
| 1933 | Romeo and Juliet | dance sequences for a Katharine Cornell production | |
| 1935 | Praeludium | Paul Nordoff | |
| 1935 | Frontier | Louis Horst | |
| 1935 | Course | George Antheil | |
| 1936 | Steps in the Street | part of Chronicle | |
| 1936 | Chronicle | Wallingford Riegger | lighting by Jean Rosenthal |
| 1936 | Horizons | Louis Horst | |
| 1936 | Salutation | Lehman Engel | |
| 1937 | Deep Song | Henry Cowell | |
| 1937 | Opening Dance | Norman Lloyd | |
| 1937 | Immediate Tragedy | Henry Cowell | |
| 1937 | American Lyric | Alex North | |
| 1938 | American Document | Ray Green | |
| 1939 | Columbiad | Louis Horst | |
| 1939 | Every Soul is a Circus | Paul Nordoff | |
| 1940 | El Penitente | Louis Horst | |
| 1940 | Letter to the World | Hunter Johnson | |
| 1941 | Punch and the Judy | Robert McBride | |
| 1942 | Land Be Bright | Arthur Kreutz | |
| 1943 | Deaths and Entrances | Hunter Johnson | |
| 1943 | Salem Shore | Paul Nordoff | |
| 1944 | Appalachian Spring | Aaron Copland | |
| 1944 | Imagined Wing | Darius Milhaud | |
| 1944 | Hérodiade | Paul Hindemith | |
| 1946 | Dark Meadow | Carlos Chávez | |
| 1946 | Cave of the Heart | Samuel Barber | |
| 1947 | Errand into the Maze | Gian Carlo Menotti | sets by Isamu Noguchi and lighting by Jean Rosenthal |
| 1947 | Night Journey, Martha Graham | William Schuman | |
| 1948 | Diversion of Angels | Norman Dello Joio | |
| 1950 | Judith | William Schuman | |
| 1951 | The Triumph of St. Joan | Norman Dello Joio | |
| 1954 | Ardent Song | Alan Hovhaness | |
| 1955 | Seraphic Dialogue | Norman Dello Joio | |
| 1958 | Clytemnestra | Halim El-Dabh | |
| 1958 | Embattled Garden | Carlos Surinach | |
| 1959 | Episodes | Anton Webern | commissioned by New York City Ballet |
| 1960 | Acrobats of God | Carlos Surinach | |
| 1960 | Alcestis | Vivian Fine | |
| 1961 | Visionary Recital | Robert Starer | revised as Samson Agonistes in 1962 |
| 1961 | One More Gaudy Night | Halim El-Dabh | |
| 1962 | Phaedra | Robert Starer | |
| 1962 | A Look at Lightning | Halim El-Dabh | |
| 1962 | Secular Games | Robert Starer | |
| 1962 | Legend of Judith | Mordechai Seter | |
| 1963 | Circe | Alan Hovhaness | |
| 1965 | The Witch of Endor | William Schuman | |
| 1967 | Cortege of Eagles | Eugene Lester | |
| 1968 | A Time of Snow | Norman Dello Joio | |
| 1968 | Plain of Prayer | Eugene Lester | |
| 1968 | The Lady of the House of Sleep | Robert Starer | |
| 1969 | The Archaic Hours | Eugene Lester | |
| 1973 | Mendicants of Evening | David G. Walker | revised as Chronique in 1974 |
| 1973 | Myth of a Voyage | Alan Hovhaness | |
| 1974 | Holy Jungle | Robert Starer | |
| 1974 | Jacob's Dream | Mordechai Seter | |
| 1975 | Lucifer | Halim El-Dabh | |
| 1975 | Adorations | Mateo Albéniz Domenico Cimarosa John Dowland Girolamo Frescobaldi |
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| 1975 | Point of Crossing | Mordechai Seter | |
| 1975 | The Scarlet Letter | Hunter Johnson | |
| 1977 | O Thou Desire Who Art About to Sing | Meyer Kupferman | |
| 1977 | Shadows | Gian Carlo Menotti | |
| 1978 | The Owl and the Pussycat | Carlos Surinach | |
| 1978 | Ecuatorial | Edgard Varèse | |
| 1978 | Flute of Pan | Traditional music. | |
| 1978 or 1979 | Frescoes | Samuel Barber | |
| 1979 | Episodes (ballet) | Anton Webern | reconstructed and reworked |
| 1980 | Judith | Edgard Varèse | |
| 1981 | Acts of Light | Carl Nielsen | |
| 1982 | Dances of the Golden Hall | Andrzej Panufnik | |
| 1982 | Andromanche's Lament | Samuel Barber | |
| 1983 | Phaedra's Dream | George Crumb | |
| 1984 | The Rite of Spring | Igor Stravinsky | |
| 1985 | Song | Romanian folk music | played on the pan flute by Gheorghe Zamfir with Marcel Cellier on the organ |
| 1986 | Temptations of the Moon | Béla Bartók | |
| 1986 | Tangled Night | Klaus Egge | |
| 1987 | Perséphone | Igor Stravinsky | |
| 1988 | Night Chant | R. Carlos Nakai | |
| 1990 | Maple Leaf Rag | Scott Joplin | costumes by Calvin Klein |
| 1991 | The Eyes of the Goddess | unfinished |
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