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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 based on the Oedipus myth, Night Journey explores the woman's experience of incest, passion and death. Learn about the commission, the themes and the symbolism of this classic work by the American modern dance pioneer.
20 de jun. de 2023 · During her career, Graham created more than 180 works, including Night Journey, a ballet that explores the complex relationship between gender and power and draws inspiration from the Greek myth of Oedipus and Jocasta. The 30-minute piece examines the maternal perspective of the Oedipus story through Freudian theories.
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.
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...
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...
