Side to Side Contraction Series – The Martha Graham Dance Legacy Project

Photograph from the Martha Graham Dance Legacy Project.

"For the contraction, the expelling of the air in your body from the pelvis upward: Every study involves continuity. Pull, pull on the contraction. Do not cave in. And the contraction is not a position. It is a movement into something. It is like a pebble thrown into the water, which makes rippling circles when it hits the water. The contraction moves." – Martha Graham

Pictured from left to right: Oliver Tobin, Mariya Dashkina Maddux, Lloyd Mayor, LLoyd Knight, Lauren Newman, and Lucy Postell.

Photograph by Matt Trent