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THE NIGHT I SAVED THE MODERN BALLET

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

† by DENIS SHAW
Denis Shaw looks back again to India, because 1963 was the year in which Britain acclaimed Martha Graham ; and because-years ago at a Calcutta party—Miss Graham had, unknown to herself, to be rescued from ' a social and psychological death.' She was saved by someone missing the sixty-seven hand movements of the Bharat Natyam School of Indian dancing.

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Denis Shaw
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Denis Shaw
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Martha Graham
Source: Radio Times

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