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Book SynopsisA New Yorker Best Book of the Year
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Month
Deborah Jowitt chronicles a life passionately, artfully lived. An essential read about a true legend. -Mikhail Baryshnikov
A study in balance and grace. -The New York Times Book Review
From the legendary dance critic Deborah Jowitt, Errand into the Maze is the definitive biography of the visionary dancer and choreographer Martha Graham.
In the pantheon of American modernists, few figures loom larger than Martha Graham. One of the greatest choreographers ever to live, Graham pioneered a revolutionary dance technique-primal, dynamic, and rooted in the emotional life of the body-that upended traditional vocabulary and shaped generations of dancers and choreographers across the globe. Over her sweeping career, she founded what is now the oldest d
