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How To: A Graham Pitch Turn

by Andrea Marks
January 11, 2013

In this video, former Martha Graham Dance Company principal, Peggy Lyman Hayes teaches a pitch turn, a step found in almost every Martha Graham work, from Clytemnestra to Appalachian Spring. Click here to read more about Hayes’ approach to the Graham Technique. (Filmed at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in NYC. MGDC apprentice Lucy Postell demonstrates.)

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