Night Journey (1947)

Original id:

5736

Start date:

3 May 1947

Media of production:

Choreographic work (dance, ballet, mime etc)

Companies:

Martha Graham and Dance Company

Ancient works:

Oedipus the King

Information related to this production

Scripts used
People involved
Places performed
Sources

Script	Author(s)
Oedipus the King	Sophocles AKA Sophokles

Person	Role	Notes
Martha Graham (d.1991)	Costume Designer	not credited with costume design in New London, 1948
Martha Graham (d.1991)	Choreographer
Martha Graham (d.1991)	Dancer	Jocasta
Erick Hawkins	Dancer	Oedipus
Yuriko Kimura	Dancer	Daughter of the Night, Chorus
Pearl Lang	Dancer	Daughter of the Night, Chorus
Helen McGehee	Dancer	Daughter of the Night, Chorus
Natanya Neumann	Dancer	Daughter of the Night, Chorus
Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988)	Designer
Jean Rosenthal	Lighting
Mark Ryder	Dancer	Tiresias the Seer
William Schuman (1910-1992)	Composer
Joan Skinner	Dancer	Daughter of the Night, Chorus
Charlotte Trowbridge	Costume Designer	credited with costume design in New London, 1948
Ethel Winter	Dancer	Daughter of the Night, Chorus

Venue	Festival	Dates	Notes
Connecticut College (New London, Connecticut, United States)	American Dance Festival (1948)	18 August, 1948
Cambridge High School (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)		2 May, 1947	world première
Maxine Elliott Theatre (New York City, New York, United States)		17 February, 1948	New York première

Source	Format	Location if held at the APGRD	Pagination
Night Journey	Print-out	archive
Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium	Book	library	31, 85, 374
How the ancients became trendy: the road from Euripides to revolution	Print-out	archive
Print-Out: Dance on Disc	Print-out	library

How to cite this production

Night Journey (1947), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/5736 <12 December 2024>