Why did Martha Graham leave Denishawn in 1923?

Martha Graham left Denishawn in 1923 to pursue a career as a featured dancer in the Greenwich Village Follies revue.1

While she remained with the school until that year, she eventually developed a strong artistic rebellion against the eclecticism that characterized the Denishawn approach. Although she later incorporated elements of the Orientalism she encountered there into her own work, her departure marked the beginning of her transition toward becoming an independent artist, leading her to eventually develop her own unique modern dance technique.1