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‘Martha Graham, dance and politics 49 Stage. Martha Graham gave the world an evolving language with which 3 to think ab dies. That lang guage interpretation of life “The body says what words cannot’: ge wa etangldin a antly moved beyon Martha Graham, dance and politics the boundaries of her own body and the bodies of her dase al a moments of Graham's career occurred when she light on the political contradictions of her life and Before Isadora Duncan’ untimely exit from the world stage in 1927, she i never lies: Martha Graham's complex polit Grahams body contracted into itself and released into multiple mov- bodies that proceeded to contract and release into other bodies. She