Night Journey
6.2
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.
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Cast
17 people
Martha Graham
Queen Jocasta
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Heretic
Appalachian Spring
Bertram Ross
King Oedipus
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Appalachian Spring
Antigone/Rites of Passion
Alexander Hammid
Nathan Kroll
Stanley Meredith
Paul Taylor
Tiresias
Miriam Arsham
Helen McGehee
Chorus Leader
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Appalachian Spring
Martha Graham: Dance on Film
William Schuman
Mary Hinkson
Chorus
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On the Sound
Isamu Noguchi
Akiko Kanda
Chorus
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Akiko: Portrait of a Dancer
And Then Akiko Is... A Portrait of a Dancer
Alexander Hammid Director · William Schuman Composer Stanley Meredith Cinematographer
United States release January 1, 1960 · Produced in United States
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · January 1, 1960
Theatrical
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