Graciela Martínez (1936-2021) trained in classical dance since she was a child and in her youth she also dabbled in engraving and painting. She began creating and presenting her own choreographies between 1957 and 1958, a time when she married the plastic artist Antonio Seguí. Together they undertook a long journey through Latin America, during which she presented Dances and Pantomimes in Peru, Colombia and Mexico. Once settled in Mexico City, she studied modern dance with the American dancer Xavier Francis and the Danish dancer Bodil Genkel. In 1960 they returned to Córdoba, where her son Octavio was born. In 1961 they moved to Buenos Aires. During that year, Martínez began a new process of artistic experimentation that would lead to the first pieces that made up Danza Actual. She is considered a precursor of modern dance in its transition to the contemporary. Her work was based on dance without narrative, linking the choreographies to objects of everyday life.