Night Journey
(1960)
★ 5.9 IMDb · 9 votes
Year: 1960
Runtime: 29 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Alexander Hammid
Cast: Martha Graham, Bertram Ross, Paul Taylor, Helen McGehee, Mary Hinkson, Akiko Kanda, Ethel Winter, Linda Hodes, Carol Payne, Bette Shaler
Plot
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.