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IS MARTHA GRAHAM
HERE
An Appreciation
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with red imploring lips. Martha1
Graham is the most sensitive artist
I have ever known. Everything
passes over her face; she needs
never utter a word to be under-
stood. Blanche Yurka, who is a
star in the production of the "Elec-
tra," is a Viking in her tempera-
ment. Things cannot hurt her;
with her fund of frankness and en-
thusiasm she brushes through every
difficulty.
With Martha Graham it is differ-
ent. A wrong movement on the
stage, a misplaced piece of action
actually physically hurts her. She
is so perfectly attuned to the sim-
ple and true economy of means
that anything artificial or theatri-
cal fairly slaps her in the face. A
director quickly learns not to hurt
her.
In rehearsing the "Electra" we
have used the method of working,
mornings and afternoons with Miss
Yurka and the company in the re-
hearsal hall; and at night we take
the entire production to Miss Gra-
ham's studio, where she corrects
and amends all of the stage "bus-
iness" that has been worked out
during the day. As far as I know,
this is the first time in an Ameri-
can production where a distin-
guished dancer has been used as
1 an actual "force" in the theatre;
not merely as an inserted ballet-
master,ebut literally as a codirec-
tor. The "Electra" is doubly for-
tunate in having such direction
from so brilliant and simple an
artist as Miss Graham. In many
ways, the real inspiration of the
production was the engagement of
Martha Graham not only to dance
but to direct the action of all the
actors as well. The utter simplicity,
the almost "peasant" flavor of the
performance which she has given
it is obviously the glowing feature
of the entire production.
In the "Electra" Miss Graham
does four dances in addition to an
important scene at the very end of
the play. It is a mistake to call
them dances, in the ordinary sense
of the word, for they fade in and
out of the regular course of the
action that they are definitely an
integral part of it. Rather these
"dances" serve to intensify and
heighten each important climax;
first at the beginning of the play
where the boy Orestes returns to
avenge his father's murder, then
just before the entrance of the
cruel Queenmother, next the dance
of lamentation when Electra thinks
that Orestes has been killed, and
finally where the revenge is ac-
complished at last.
To describe these dances is near-
ly impossible if you have'not seen
Martha Graham dance before.
Some have compared her to Mary
Wigman, the German dancer who
has just scored such a sensational
success in this country. At best the
comparison is superficial, for Miss
Graham has never been to Ger-
many and her work is so uniquely
her own. Critics speak of her "pas-
sionate asceticism," of her "divine
simplicity," and all are unanimous
in their praise of her extraordinary
economy and technical resourceful-
ness.
Certain metropolitan papers have
referred to her "stylized" dances.
Miss Graham laughs when you
mention the phrase to her,nfor she
has no idea what it means. Her
art is so much a part of her and'
so vividly springs from her own
convictions of truth and beauty
that she could express herself in
no other way. Today she is the
critic's darling; they are agog over
what they consider a "discovery."
Their columns in the new York
papers resound with her praise aft-
er each of her recitals. Again Miss
Graham smiles. "I was just the
same four years ago," she says,
"when they hurled abuse at me.
Perhaps they are just catching up
to our ideas."
Today Martha Graham stands as
the foremost woman dancer in
America. To those of us who work
with her, like every true artist,
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