Night Journey

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Night Journey (1960)

Directed by Alexander Hammid

Music, Drama · 29m

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

Martha Graham Queen Jocasta Bertram Ross King Oedipus
P
Paul Taylor Tiresias Helen McGehee Chorus Leader Mary Hinkson Chorus
A
Akiko Kanda Chorus Ethel Winter Chorus
L
Linda Hodes Chorus
C
Carol Payne Chorus
B
Bette Shaler Chorus

Crew

Director
Alexander Hammid
Director of Photography
Alexander Hammid, Stanley Meredith
Original Music Composer
William Schuman
Editor
Miriam Arsham
Producer
Nathan Kroll

Details

Release date
1960-01-01
Runtime
29m
Genres
Music, Drama
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
No Language
Countries
United States of America