.jpg)
Martha Graham is a ballet dancer, choreographer, music educator born in Pittsburg (United States).
Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American modern dancer, teacher and choreographer, whose style, the Graham technique, reshaped the dance world and is still taught in academies worldwide. Graham danced and taught for over seventy years. She was the first dancer to perform at the White House, travel abroad as a cultural ambassador, and receive the highest civilian award of the US: the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction. In her lifetime she received honors ranging from the Key to the City of Paris to Japan's Imperial Order of the Precious Crown. She said, in the 1994 documentary The Dancer Revealed: "I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful.
Biography excerpt from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
| Born | 11 May 1893, Pittsburg |
| Profession | ballet dancer, choreographer, music educator |
| Nationality | United States |
| Employer | New York University |
| Educated at | Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts, Santa Barbara High School |
| Spouse | Erick Hawkins |
| Awards | Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, honorary doctor of Brandeis University, honorary doctor of Harvard University, Capezio Dance Award, Kennedy Center Honors, National Medal of Arts, |
| Moon Sign (Rashi) | Aquarius |
| Nakshatra | Purva Bhadrapada (Pada 3) |
| Sun Sign | Aries |
| Ascendant (Lagna) | Gemini |
| Birth data reliability | Accurate |
Birth details come from a recorded or documented source (source: Kundli Sangraha (Tendulkar)), so this chart is reliable.
Computed with Swiss Ephemeris (Lahiri ayanamsa).
Our library holds 666 Hollywood personalities with a computed Vedic chart from reliable birth data. 64 of them (10%) have the Moon in Aquarius, like Martha Graham, and 30 (5%) share the Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra — the #2 most common Moon Nakshatra among Hollywood personalities, where Dhanishta leads with 31 (5%).
For scale, an even spread would put about 3.7% in each of the 27 Nakshatras and 8.3% in each Moon sign. These are simple counts from our dataset, not a prediction.
More celebrity birthdays in May →
Martha Graham was born on 11 May 1893 in Pittsburg. Birth details come from a recorded or documented source (source: Kundli Sangraha (Tendulkar)), so this chart is reliable.
Martha Graham's Moon sign (Rashi) is Aquarius and the Nakshatra is Purva Bhadrapada, pada 3, computed with Swiss Ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa.
Martha Graham's Ascendant is Gemini, calculated from the recorded birth time.
See your own compatibility: find out whether your chart is a cosmic match for Martha Graham, or plan a baby's birth timing to align with Martha Graham's Nakshatra.
Martin Scorsese · Mary Bell · Mary Johnson · Maryam Zakaria · Matthew Sloan · Matthew Wade · Mauricio Pinilla · Mayank Agarwal
All Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra celebrities → | Moon in Aquarius → | Names starting with M →
Find your own Nakshatra → | Find your celebrity match → | Plan a birth to match Martha Graham → | Browse all celebrity charts →