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Night Journey is a Martha Graham ballet performed to music by William Schuman with costumes designed by Graham and a set by Isamu Noguchi. Commissioned by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation of the Library of Congress, the work premiered on May 3, 1947, at Cambridge High School in Boston, Massachusetts. [1]
A dance inspired by the Oedipus myth, focusing on the tragic fate of Jocasta, Oedipus' mother and wife. Graham explores the psychological and sexual dynamics of the family drama, using symbolic language and expressive movement.
20 de jun. de 2023 · Learn how Graham reinterpreted the Oedipus myth from a feminine perspective in her ballet Night Journey, using Freudian and Jungian theories. Explore how her choreography expressed the female experience and tragedy in a modern way.
5 de sept. de 2014 · 21K views 9 years ago. Martha Graham was an American modern dancer, choreographer, and contemporary of Mr. Wayne's teacher, Agnes DeMille. She was a pioneer, and in her seventy years of dancing...
In Martha Graham: Maturity of Martha Graham In Night Journey (1948), a work about the Greek legendary figure Jocasta, the whole dance-drama takes place in the instant when Jocasta learns that she has mated with Oedipus, her own son, and has borne him children.
Martha Graham wrote this passage about the opening of Night Journey (1947) in her autobiog- raphy Blood Memory (1991). Night Journey tells the story of Jocasta who at the end of her life is reluctantly forced by the blind prophet Tiresias to relive the most significant and thus painful moments of her life.
17 de sept. de 2012 · Martha Graham’s Beautiful, Harrowing Night Journey. By Alexander C. Kafka. September 17, 2012. Philippe Halsman, Magnum Photos. Martha Graham and Erick Hawkins in her work “Dark...
