Night Journey, the dance, had its premiere only two and a half years after Appalachian Spring, and it is a close cousin. It too has a stream-of-consciousness narration: Jocasta, as she is about to kill herself, remembering what has happened to her. It too contains soul-delving solos, broken up by ensemble dances. Here, however, the ensemble is a darker element. As the story was taken from Greek tragedy, so the corps is the equivalent of Greek tragedy’s chorus. They tell us how to feel: afraid mostly. In this piece Graham pushed her habitual economy to its limits.
Directed by Alexander Hammid
Your score–
Not scoredImages
Cast
Related
Battle of the Year
Honey: Rise Up and Dance
Clika
Coda
A Time for Dancing
Grace Unplugged
Hounddog
Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
Too Late Blues
A
A Late Quartet
Honeydripper
You Got Served
The Mambo Kings
Suburbia