Night Journey

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Martha Graham

Queen Jocasta

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Bertram Ross

King Oedipus

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Paul Taylor

Tiresias

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Helen McGehee

Chorus Leader

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Ethel Winter

Chorus

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Mary Hinkson

Chorus

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Linda Hodes

Chorus

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Akiko Kanda

Chorus

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Alexander Hammid
Production	Producer	Nathan Kroll
	Executive Producer	Bethsabee de Rothschild
Editing	Editor	Miriam Arsham
Camera	Director of Photography	Alexander Hammid Stanley Meredith
Sound	Original Music Composer	William Schuman
	Recording Supervision	Clair D. Krepps
	Conductor	Robert Irving
Crew	Sound Recordist	Clair D. Krepps
	Choreographer	Martha Graham
Art	Set Decoration	Isamu Noguchi
Lighting	Lighting Design	David Golden
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