Martha gleim was born in the mountains of Pennsylvania in the eastern United States. Shortly thereafter, the family moved to California. Their family is very happy. Their father is a doctor. Cultivate children's interest in life and nature from an early age. One day, my father took a small glass filled with water to little gleim. Q: "What do you see?" "Clear water!" Grimm answered loudly in a childish voice. "Is the water clean?" The father then asked, "Of course it's clean!" The father shook his head, put the glass under the microscope and asked his daughter to come and have a look. Grimm is strange. What is there to see? Grimm narrowed his eyes and looked at the small cylinder. She burst into tears, full of unknown and grotesque little things. They kept crawling, where did this come from, but it frightened her. After repeated inspection, she was sure that all these things were in clear water. Father said, "The water looks clean, but it is not. The world is full of mysteries, just waiting for you to explore. " From then on, gleim Jr. was full of mystery about those magical little lives: "Life is everywhere!"

After gleim graduated from high school, out of her love for dance, she felt that every movement of dance was full of charm of life.

Gleim joined the famous masters of modern dance at that time-Dennis and Sean. Parents are also very willing that this energetic daughter can show her style on the dazzling stage. On that day, my parents dressed up little gleim and drove her directly to Los Angeles, where Dennis and Sean lived. Gleim Jr. will never forget that night. Because, my father bought her the first bunch of flowers to wear on her chest, which were beautiful and elegant violets. Little gleim suddenly felt that all her beauty was in the dance.

Dennis and Sean were the most famous modern dance masters in America at that time. Under the careful guidance of these teachers, the clever gleim made great progress through hard study and training, which surprised everyone. Even Dennis and Sean have to admire gleim Jr.' s talent and perseverance. You know, Grimm doesn't always study beside the teacher. Only during the summer vacation can she ask for advice in person, and most of the time she practices by herself. If she doesn't understand, she can only ask for advice by letter. However, gleim is not only inferior to other students, but also one of them. Gleim studied modern dance from Dennis and Sean, music from musician Louis Horst, and spatial expression of body from Noguchi, which is an important foundation of gleim's style. Until later, gleim often mentioned these teachers and friends who had an important influence on her, and she felt great vitality from various arts.

In 1923, gleim left Dennis and Sean as mentors and started to make his own way on the stage. Soon, she created a unique style, which was rooted in the resurrection of life in all ancient national myths. During the performance, gleim went to various places to learn traditional folk dances and music, and studied local myths and legends. In this way, she gradually matured.

1926, gleim held his first solo performance. She showed her style on the stage with carefully choreographed dances, which brought great impact to the audience and caused a sensation in the whole city at that time. After that, gleim set up his own dance troupe and began to recruit disciples. However, since there were no actors in the troupe, gleim thought it was just a dance group. It was not until 1938 that the famous dancer Eric Hawkins entered the troupe, which made gleim very happy. Since then, gleim Modern Dance Company has started.

Eric Hawkins has received professional and systematic ballet training. This excellent ballerina has added new contents to the teaching of gleim, thus improving the quality of the actors more comprehensively. In addition, the arrival of Hawkins had a great influence on gleim's love, stimulated gleim's artistic passion, and made gleim's dance movements suddenly dramatic, thus making gleim's works more perfect.

Since then, gleim has created one excellent work after another. Gliem Dance Company is gradually becoming famous in the world. The actors in the troupe are getting better and better. For example, an actress named Kim edman joined 1938 gleim Dance Company. Once, the dance company had to go to Boston, and time was pressing, but Kim edman didn't come back until a few days before the dance company was about to leave. She doesn't know her role yet. Everyone in the group is in a hurry. Kim edman threw himself into the intense rehearsal. Surprisingly, she mastered five works in just 65,438+00 days. The whole troupe is cheering and praising her. This ability is unprecedented in the performance history of gleim Dance Company.

Gleim creates dance with the rhythm of life. When she writes, she is immersed in her inner impulse. There is no music here, only rhythm. She uses body language to express her understanding of life. After a work is finished, composer Louis Horst can create a perfectly harmonious melody for her. This cannot but be surprising.

Gleim said: "People always have desires, and this desire is need. It is inevitable to fall into the whirlpool of passion, direct needs of life and immediate significance. It is like a child, driven by a mysterious life force. When a child says, now, there is nothing but modernity-there is no past or future, he only pays attention to the present. For me, this desire is the desire to live, the desire to love, the desire to do things and the desire to establish a new world order. Having this desire is a burden, but it is also a huge privilege. "

Gleim has achieved great success. Ms Agnes de Mill, a famous American dancer, choreographer and theorist, called gleim Dance Company "the most powerful and creative force in the 20th century drama art, and a true representative of American dance tradition, which can be compared with ballets russes in Dia Gilev and Japanese kabuki in its heyday."

However, this great gleim Dance Company once experienced a major setback.

1969, 75-year-old gleim was seriously ill and had to leave the stage, which made her very miserable. Because acting is her life. Since then, gleim felt lonely and desperate, and once gave up the dance company and dance school, and the gleim Dance Company declined day by day.

At this moment, a young man named Lei Nuode Prosta appeared in front of the dance master. With his encouragement, gleim finally raised his head again and returned to work with great enthusiasm. She re-faced the dance troupe and dance school she founded, and continued to create and direct. When she stopped dancing, she sat in a chair to guide the demonstration. Gleim Dance Company ushered in a new spring.

With great perseverance, gleim has released 26 new works, including Song of the Night. The momentum is still the same as that of that year. You know, by May 1988, 19, this female predecessor was 95 years old, but she was still passionate about her work, and she had equated herself with gleim Dance Company. The successful performance of each work is equivalent to her own performance. Although she is not on the stage, her soul dances with the actors. 1989, gleim led her gleim Dance Company to hold a grand retrospective performance, which became her last masterpiece.

One of the most authoritative dance critics in the United States, Ms. Anna giselle Cove of The New York Times, commented: "These works of gleim were born one after another, which constitutes a repertoire that other modern dance companies can't boast about."

Shortly thereafter, gleim became seriously ill and was admitted to the hospital. 199 1 year, gleim passed away.

Gleim made great contributions to the dance career all his life. Her gleim Dance School has trained many famous dancers for the United States, among which Moss Cunningham is the most outstanding one, and his achievements can be compared with those of teachers. Gleim's training system, Moss Cunningham's training system and Horsey Limon's training system are called the three most scientific modern dance training systems in the world. In addition, gleim directed as many as 65,438+078 dance dramas in his life, including many representative works, such as Primitive Mystery, Open Letter to the World, Spring in Chia, Apara, Cave of the Soul, Nocturnal Walking and Sacrifice to Spring.

Her contribution is unparalleled. Gleim is listed by western art critics as an artist on par with Freud, Stravinsky, James Joyce and Picasso. She is one of the people who changed the way people observe and think in the 20th century, breaking the stereotype and providing a classic choice for the terminology of classical ballet.

"I'm afraid of taking risks on the wire rope. I'm afraid of venturing into the unknown. Creating anything really new is like going into space. Either find a planet, or never find it, or disappear completely. " Martha gleim said.

Gleim has been pursuing that mysterious vitality all his life. What she admires most in her life are the famous Italian dramatist Duse and the famous Russian ballerina pavlova, who have fully demonstrated the beauty of human nature. She yearns for the vibrant ancient Greek and Roman times. In this way, I pursued the impulse of life, danced lightly in the world for a century, and will dance in the hearts of countless people all my life.

On May 1988, the grand commemoration of "Martha gleim's Six Generations of Technology" was launched as scheduled in new york, USA. This is jointly organized by the Martha Grimm Society and the Asia Society.

The conference officially started on 10 in the morning. Beautiful Anabel; Acheson Valles Auditorium has gathered famous people in the modern American dance field, many of whom have become masters in the world dance field. They are all disciples handed down by gleim. In the past 60 years, since gleim studied with Dennis and Sean, the founders of American modern dance, gleim has trained six generations of dancers, some of whom are stage predecessors and some are young people who have just graduated. This party is really a master of gleim school.

Participants talked about the great benefits they got from their teachers and revealed many undisclosed details of gleim's life.

For example, according to Mr. Mei Sen, since gleim became independent from Dennis and Sean in 1923, she has created a new dance path, on the one hand, in order to seek greater development for herself, on the other hand, she was forced to do so. It turned out that although gleim learned the exquisite skills of teachers Dennis and Sean, the couple asked gleim not to use his skills without authorization unless gleim could pay 500 dollars for the right to use this skill. At that time, gleim had just graduated and it was difficult to eat. Where did she get this $500? She was very dissatisfied with what the couple did, so she decided to create her own style without using any skills of the teacher. Soon, she created her own very good contraction and relaxation movements from hips to spine to shoulders.

Ms Ayers Guilmault is the younger sister of Noguchi, a famous Japanese sculptor in modern America. She has facilitated many successful cooperations between Green and her brother. She said that gleim's art world is based on breathing and the contraction and relaxation of the spine. Earlier, when gleim came back from Mexico, he was inspired by local customs in Mexico and directed Primitive Mystery. But at that time, actors were called "black mice" by The New York Times because their clothes were too tight to move freely.

Barbara Morgan, a famous American dance photographer, showed slides of gleim's early stills and teaching demonstration photos, and the lively movements still excited the audience.

Later, many gleim believers told one of their most unforgettable stories. These things reveal gleim's great life from the side.

Gleim once said, "Dance is the best communication. The human body never lies, and its actions never lie. I'm not interested in whether the audience understands my movements. I'm interested in what they think of my movements. What I want is intuition, not rational feeling. I want the audience to feel for themselves and feel the surge of life. "