A performance of Martha Graham’s Appalachian Spring, choreographed in 1944 and filmed in 1959 by Peter Glushanok. The score is by Aaron Copland and the set is by Isamu Noguchi. Graham dances the role of the Bride:
(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)
Archives for June 23, 2010
TT: Almanac
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
Oscar Wilde, “De Profundis”