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Chronology of Martha Graham Ballets


1926 Chorale
Novelette
Tänze
Intermezzo
Maid with the Flaxen Hair
Arabesque No. 1
Clair de Lune
Danse Languide
Désir
Deux Valses Sentimentales
Masques
Trois Gnossiennes (Gnossienne/Frieze/Tangara)
From A XII Century Tapestry (retitled: 'A Florentine Madonna')
A Study In Lacquer
Danse Rococo
The Three Gopi Maidens (exerpted from 'The Flute Of Krishna')
The Marionette Show Suite (from 'Alceste')
Portrait — After Beltram Masses (retitled: 'Gypsy Portrait')
Suite From 'Alceste'
Scene Javanaise
Danza degli Angeli
Bas Relief
Ribands
Scherzo
Baal Shem
La Soirée Dans Grenade (retitled: 'The Moth')
Alt-Wien
Three Poems Of The East
1927 Peasant Sketches (Dance/Berceuse/In the Church)
Tunisia (Sunlight in a Courtyard)
Lucrezia
La Cancion
Arabesque No. 1 (revised)
Valse Caprice
Spires
Adagio (retitled: 'Madonna')
Fragilité
Lugubre
Poem Ailé
Tanzstück
Revolt (originally: 'Danse')
Esquisse Antique
Ronde
Scherza
1928 Chinese Poem
Troveres (The Return of Spring/ Complaint/A Song, Frank and Gay)
Immigrant (Steerage Strike)
Poems of 1917
Fragments (Tragedy/Comedy)
Resonances (Matins/Gamelan/Tocsin)
1929 Dance
Three Florentine Verses
Four Insincerities (Petulance/Remorse/Politeness/Vivacity)
Chants Magics (Farewell/Greeting)
Two Variations (Country Lane/City Street)
Figure of a Saint
Resurrection
Adolescence
Danza
Visions of the Apocalypse (Theme and Variations)
Momenta Rustica
Sketches of the People
Heretic
1930 Prelude to a Dance (retitled: 'Salutation')
Two Chants (Futility/Ecstatic Song)
Lamentation
Project in Movement for a Divine Comedy
Harlequinade
1931 Two Primitive Canticles
Primitive Mysteries (Hymn to the Virgin/Crucifixus/Hosanna)
Rhapsodics (Song/Interlude/Dance)
Bacchanale
Dolorosa
Dithyrambic
Serenade
Incantation
1932 Ceremonials
Offering
Ecstatic Dance
Bacchanale No. 2
Prelude
Dance Songs (Ceremonial/Morning Song/Satyric Festival Song/Song of Rapture)
Chorus Of Youth-Companions
1933 Tragic Patterns (Chorus for Supplicant/Chorus for Maenads/Chorus for Furies)
Elegiac
Ekstasis
Dance Prelude
Frenetic Rhythms (Three Dances of Possession)
1934 Transitions (Prologue/Sarabande/Pantomime/Epilogue)
Phantasy (Prelude/Musette/Gavotte)
Celebration
Four Casual Developments
Integrales (Shapes of Ancestral Wonder)
Dance in Four Parts (Quest/Derision/Dream/Sportive Tragedy)
American Provincials (Act of Piety/Act of Judgement)
1935 Praeludium (No. 1)
Course
Perspectives (Frontier/Marching Song)
Panorama (Theme of Dedication/Imperial Theme/Popular Theme)
Formal Dance (retitled: Praeludium No.2)
Imperial Gesture
1936 Horizons
Salutation
Chronicle
1937 Opening Dance
Immediate Tragedy
Deep Song
American Lyric
1938 American Document
1939 Columbiad
Every Soul is a Circus
1940 El Penitente
Letter to the World
1941 Punch and the Judy
1942 Land Be Bright
1943 Salem Shore
Deaths and Entrances
1944 Imagined Wing
Herodiade
Appalachian Spring
1946 Dark Meadow
Cave of the Heart
1947 Errand into the Maze
Night Journey
1948 Diversion of Angels
1950 Judith
Eye of Anguish
Gospel of Eve
1951 The Triumph of Saint Joan
1952 Canticle for Innocent Commedians
1953 Voyage
1954 Ardent Song
1955 Seraphic Dialogue
1958 Clytemnestra
Embattled Garden
1959 Episodes: Part I
1960 Acrobats Of God
Alcestis
1961 Visionary Recital (revised as 'Samson Agonistes' in 1962)
One More Gaudy Night
1962 Phaedra
A Look At Lighting
Secular Games
Legend of Judith
1963 Circe
1965 The Witch of Endor
Part Real — Part Dream
1967 Cortege of Eagles
Dancing Ground
1968 A Time of Snow
Plain of Prayer
The Lady of the House of Sleep
1969 The Archaic Hours
1973 Mendicants of Evening (revised as 'Chronique' in 1974)
Myth of a Voyage
1974 Holy Jungle
Jacob's Dream
1975 Lucifer
Adorations
Point of Crossing
The Scarlet Letter
1977 O Thou Desire Who Art About to Sing
Shadows
1978 The Owl and the Pussycat
Ecuatorial
Flute of Pan
Frescoes
1980 Judith
1981 Acts of Light
1982 Dances of the Golden Hall
Andromanche's Lament
1983 Phaedra's Dream
1984 Rite of Spring
1985 Song
1986 Temptations of the Moon
Tangled Night
1987 Persephone
1988 Night Chant
1990 Maple Leaf Rag
1991 The Eyes of the Goddess (unfinished)

 

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Photo Credits: Yuriko rehearsing Primitive Mysteries, photo by Kristen Lödöen; two photos from A Dancer's World, from the collection of Martha Graham Resources.