Martha Graham Dance Company - Clytemnestra
A Washington Post critic calls the Martha Graham Dance Company "one of the seven wonders of the artistic universe." Choreographer and dancer Martha Graham, who founded her contemporary dance company in 1926, created 181 works, but only one -- Clytemnestra (1958) -- is an evening-length piece. The dance, based on Aeschylus' trilogy The Oresteia and performed to a score by Egyptian composer Halim el-Dabh, is operatic in scale and features sets by longtime Graham collaborator Isamu Noguchi.
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Nov 05, 2009 from 07:30 pm to 10:00 pm |
| Where | Eisenhower Auditorium |
| Contact Phone | 814-863-0255 |
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The dance unfolds from the persepctive of Clytemnestra, Queen of Mycenae, and flows like the rivers of blood that passed from generation to generation in the doomed House of Altreus. Although it relives a tragic past, Clytemnestra is ultimately about rebirth and redemption. Guided today by Artistic Director Janet Eilber, the company has toured to more than fifty countries on five continents. "They seem able to do anything," writes a Los Angeles Times critic.
