Martha Graham is famous from her several dances she choreographed and danced. She started a new style of dance and dance moves. Most people compare her to Picasso's paintings of Stravinsky on music and Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture. She became the most interested in dance whe she saw Ruth St. Dennis preform on stage and then when her care taker Elizabeth Pendergrass would teach them about dance. She started dancing in 1923 and became well know from there. She taught many famous people such as Alvin Ailey, Twyla Tharp, Paul Taylor and many other famous dancers, choreographers, and actors in her time. She also became one of the first performers at the White House. She preformed for Franklin Roosevelt and other presidential figures and got awarded metals for it. She was awarded many medals and was considered by most one of the best dancers of her time.