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Night Journey (1960)

Name: Night Journey
Director: Alexander Hammid
Genre: Music, Drama
Released: 1960-01-01
Duration: 29 min
Rating: 5.9
Cast: Martha Graham, Bertram Ross, Paul Taylor, Helen McGehee, Mary Hinkson

IMDb 5.90h 29mMusic Drama

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Plot Summary

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.