Night Journey
1960
· ⭐ 5.3 · Votes: 7
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.
CANYON
