Night Journey (1960)
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.
- Date of release
- 1960-01-01
- TMDB
- 5.9 / 10 (9)
- Runtime
- 29m
- Genres
- Music, Drama
- Director
- Alexander Hammid
Casting
- Martha Graham — Queen Jocasta
- Bertram Ross — King Oedipus
- Paul Taylor — Tiresias
- Helen McGehee — Chorus Leader
- Mary Hinkson — Chorus
- Akiko Kanda — Chorus
- Ethel Winter — Chorus
- Linda Hodes — Chorus
- Carol Payne — Chorus
- Bette Shaler — Chorus
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