Night Journey
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"Night Journey" is a landmark modern dance work choreographed by Martha Graham that reimagines the Oedipus myth from Jocasta’s psychological perspective.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ballet and dance production
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modern dance work ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Oedipus myth
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Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus Rex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Chorus of women
NERFINISHED
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Tiresias NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| choreographer | Martha Graham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| choreographicForm | psychological drama ⓘ |
| company | Martha Graham Dance Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | William Schuman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Martha Graham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dramaturgicalFocus | Jocasta’s final moments before suicide ⓘ |
| firstPerformerOfRole Jocasta | Martha Graham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPerformerOfRole Oedipus | Bertram Ross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | modern dance ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | landmark work of 20th-century modern dance ⓘ |
| language | none (wordless dance) ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Jocasta
NERFINISHED
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Oedipus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movementVocabulary | contractions and releases characteristic of Graham technique ⓘ |
| musicBy | William Schuman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | Jocasta’s psychological perspective ⓘ |
| premiereCity | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereDate | 1947 ⓘ |
| premiereVenue | Ziegfeld Theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| prop |
Noguchi-designed bed-throne
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rope symbolizing umbilical cord and noose ⓘ |
| recordedIn | television and film adaptations of Martha Graham’s works ⓘ |
| repertoire | core work of the Martha Graham Dance Company repertoire ⓘ |
| setDesigner | Isamu Noguchi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | ancient Thebes (mythic) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structure | flashback ⓘ |
| style | Martha Graham technique NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject | retelling of Greek tragedy from a female viewpoint ⓘ |
| subjectOf | dance scholarship and feminist reinterpretations of Greek tragedy ⓘ |
| theme |
fate
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guilt ⓘ incest ⓘ memory ⓘ psychological conflict ⓘ |
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