Helen McGehee

Movies3

• Movie6.0

  DocumentaryMusic

  A glimpse into the world and methodology of dancer Martha Graham.

  A Dancer's World

  1957 · 11 votes

• Movie5.3

  MusicDocumentary

  A filmed version of Aaron Copland's most famous ballet, with its original star, who also choreographed.

  Appalachian Spring

  1959 · 10 votes

• Movie5.9

  MusicDrama

  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.

  Night Journey

  1960 · 9 votes