Film

Night Journey

1960 · 29m · Music · Drama

IMDb

6.1

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.

Martha Graham

Queen Jocasta

Bertram Ross

King Oedipus

Paul Taylor

Tiresias

Helen McGehee

Chorus Leader

Mary Hinkson

Chorus

Akiko Kanda

Chorus

Ethel Winter

Chorus

Linda Hodes

Chorus

Carol Payne

Chorus

Bette Shaler

Chorus

• Alexander HammidDirector · Director of Photography
• Nathan KrollProducer
• Bethsabee de RothschildExecutive Producer
• Stanley MeredithDirector of Photography
• William SchumanOriginal Music Composer
• Miriam ArshamEditor

Release date

January 1, 1960

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

29m

Genres

Music, Drama