Martha Graham Night Journey Clip for DGC

[gomro]

Superb in every detail. And I see there's a recording of the score on Naxos -- that'll be a must-own disc!

[AndrewRudin]

PETER GLUSHANOK!!!! probably the greatest cinematographer of dance.... ever! Would that he'd been commissioned to photograph ALL the great works of Graham. But just to have this, and the Appalachian Spring.... superb. And this is one of William Schumann's best scores.

[felipecohenn]

What is the history of this video? I do not understand can someone please explain ??????????????????

[MindBloodandDark]

@felipecohenn It is an adaptation of the myth of Oedipus Rex. The description at the beginning makes it all very clear. If you meant what the history of the dance is, this is one of Martha Graham's most famous and acclaimed choreographies.

[Perytupi]

Great!

[xsxbetoxsx]

WELL AHEAD FOR HER TIME

[logidmetabeta]

siento que nace del vientre como la musica, bisceralmente, rompiendo mis esquemas de la danza clasica.

[logidmetabeta]

me encanta de sobremanera...

[MikkiMoo98]

4:20 hahahaha

[rechevere]

does anyone know who the music composer is?

[jeremyirissarri]

@rechevere

It says in the beginning credits!

[Astraldragon0]

It's about Oedipus, who killed his father and married his mother, unawares. This dance is Jocasta (the mother) reflecting on her life before she committs suicide upon learning the truth.

... I have to write a two page essay on this.. T_T

[2008aaxxeell]

Wow, this is amazing. This young dancer is Paul Taylor.

[ngocdieuvo]

great!, but what is it about? can any1 tell me?!!!

[annabananachris]

@ngocdieuvo Read the first part :)

[ebonz2]

they seem a misguided cheer leading squad. Sorry Graham and her naturalism are unaesthetic even too a third rate Romantic choreographer.

[donnelam]

ummmmmmmmmmmm

[YvonneGiu]

wow cool there`s even a spiderman moment right arounf 2:30.

fantastic

[BlindbyBeauty]

This is genius! Martha Graham was way advanced for her time! Thanks Martha for all the beautiful things you left us, thanks for leaving us your unique dances, that never grow old!

[95CUPCAKEGIRL]

This is an awesome choreography.

[DomeArmin]

It is Schönberg... mean that I can't understand.

[TheJethro18]

Totally just smiled at the words 'Footy Dance'

my day truly has been enriched.

[BloodyBay]

But yeah, I came here via Google Doodle too. Martha Graham's Doodle doesn't quite top Robert Bunsen's Doodle, but it's pretty close. :)

It's kind of odd that I know Isadora Duncan pretty well, but I hardly knew Martha Graham before that Doodle came up. So that was enriching. Who says the internet makes you stupid?

And even though this dance is a Tragedy, I can't help but think that the chorus dancers are adorable, especially the one doing the footy dance at 3:18. Is that so wrong? :-/

[gsolis12001]

me neither....

[chuucho]

Thumps up if you look for a Martha Graham video after seeing the google logo!

[BSAFamilyReunion2011]

The symbol on her chest looks just like the one in the Hitman video games.

[irvinc101]

Was anybody reminded of Avatar: The Last Airbender by that the Google logo?

[Timesearch]

Well ok I kept refreshing my page too and watched I think almost everything on here dealing with Martha Graham. Really facinating.

[jazzy07rocks]

is this where lady gaga got all her dance moves?

[irvinc101]

@jazzy07rocks

I found this comment insulting! Lady Caca can go to hell. 

[jazzy07rocks]

@irvinc101 i was just joking........ O.o

[irvinc101]

@jazzy07rocks

lol It's not really insulting, but Lady Caca is terrible

[amnehjafari]

wtf.

[algonquinspirit]

Where would we be without Google ?

[Herooftimex]

i dont get this at all

[RawMusicMuthaFukka]

@Herooftimex Look past the obvious and read the intro carefully. She is expressing the pain, depression and madness of the situation through dance. You'll get it, just have to pay close attention....this is an art.

[IsaMarini]

Bizarre music

[skeemts]

thumbs up if google bought you here .

[Melberrt]

@skeemts be original please

[SirKil0t]

@skeemts thumbs up if comments like this are shit,

[zetsukitty12345]

Ignore trolls they don't even know what proper trolling is. But any way I love all forms of art and this one is so interesting!

[zetsukitty12345]

@zetsukitty12345 Ps: those who call this stupid are not open minded, probably some ignorant person who listens to the same crap every day and make fun of those who are different. 

[ale5punk]

my best decision of the day was to click on the google animation today!!! :)

[IAmPlaysWithSquirrel]

Hooray for Google educating us on the fine arts!

[Jesipr]

This is where Lady Gaga takes all her choreographic from!

[johlu515]

First time I see her... now, I feel home like...

[wilderulz]

It's sad how many people feel the need to troll this video because of it's unique and artful content... Just to get a rise out of people. Do us all a favour and keep your negitive comments to yourselves.

[xXAxelKaulitzXx]

i didnt even know this chick before i went on google lol

[racardo242]

I taught she was a ninja......Google needs more ninjas :D

[dirk600]

This is dumb as shit, who spends money on this crap?

Like, just plain pointless and uninteresting.

[hyeonj315]

@dirk600 you're just plain pointless and uninteresting, go listen to rebecca black, fucking skinhead.

[GhostLate]

@dirk600

2deep4u entry-level troglodyte pig

[KNSweetness]

happy 117th birthday!

[kakashi341girl]

Wow this is soo cool! Except I was a little disturbed when that guy turned around and I saw his many thong type thing o.o

[emma8797]

what is this...?

[GhostLate]

@emma8797

2deep4u entry-level troglodyte pig

[emma8797]

@GhostLate lol yea i guess so...not all of us can be as cultured as you.

[preeti604]

.....what the fuck

[2chickensoup]

wut the fuk



[kohakuinscribed]

Google notified me of Martha Graham

Highschool educated me of Oedipus Rex

[Westonci]

liberal faggot, i hope she burns in hell

[xEuphoricDysphoriaX]

@Westonci Yeah, I hope you burn in hell.

[MrRadaikon]

@Westonci Yknow..hoping people burn in Hell is kind of what gets you sent there yourself. Just a heads up.

[aragosantiago]

Madonna was a pupil of Graham's l in the 1970s and early 1980s!

Both women are fantastic artists!

[mysterious494]

Lol I didn't know how Martha Graham was until I went to Google nd saw her dance moves that spelled Google [x Like if yu went to google nd went straight here to watch

[iFluffyKitteh]

Happy Birthday Martha! 5/11/11. I heard about you today, thanks to Google! :-)

[0195rainbow]

they dance like lady gaga... really! mute this video and put alejandro hahaha LOL

[PumpkinCheeseMignon]

@0195rainbow Lady Gaga's moves wouldn't exist without Martha Graham

[AlaaLoloGaza]

whats the stupid is this !!

[LoveDog388]

Happy 117th birthday! Lol Google told me this.

[yesidono]

1:33, dude, i so did not need to see that ass T~T

[mmawilldesha]

Saw this thing on Goggle and wondered who she was and I'm happy I decided to look her up because I really enjoyed this.

[Norline17]

THANKS TO GOOGLE, I LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERYDAY!!! THE BEST SEARCH ENGINE E-V-E-R!

[11sweetz11]

Saww her cool animation thingy on google thought id watch this to see watch shes all about :) pretty cool

[suvarnamorey]

2:30 spiderman dance.:p

[deadpool93x]

the dance move for the E in Google by Martha Graham is really creepy.

[newbiepanda]

holy shit. that was so memorizing.

[diogotomediogo]

weird what we humans can think of to express ourselves :D

[TheBboyUneek]

This is extremely revolutionary for her time.

awesome.

[MegaDexter1986]

dno totalne...

[mrcriollitas]

google brought me here too. good thing.

[diaz713919]

Thumbs up if you kept on refreshing your page just to see Martha Graham's logo on Google

[Peonmyfoot25]

@diaz713919 ikr it looked soo kewl

[skyy7777]

@diaz713919 Thought I was the only one : )

[Wasserschloss]

If I were this athletic, I think that'll be totally the kind of dancing I'd do. I love these vivid and emotional moves.

[salem919]

Still like ballet better, but this is ok

[brotahojk54]

You will never see something like this nowadays.This is fantastic

[heather0f]

i dont get it =/

[sercantje]

i love the google picture

[damnhotGIRL00]

i see that she can dance and move somehow but seriously this choreo is kind of a creepy art they look like psychos. not a world i wanna live in.... baaah.

[LordToxygene]

@damnhotGIRL00 The irony of this statement..... is EPIC.

[KYkysen]

estoy aqui por que vi la animacion en google

[EdaDedaBear7]

google

[ClowerFray]

Google - expanding our horizons)

[gerulais]

This is not music, it's just NOISE. The dance is interesting, but they could've used more melodious music.

[BloodyBay]

@gerulais But the music in performance pieces like your typical ballet or opera piece is not about the music itself; the music is merely an aural backdrop for the mood of the performance.  In this case, that mood is about Oedipus and Jocasta going nuts and doing horrible things to themselves after the blind seer dropped a rather nasty revelation on both their heads, and the music is meant to reflect that madness and chaos. A prettier tune would have undermined the mood, not enhanced it.

[MrWhatev4r]

i don't think i can appreciate this. don't have enough knowledge of dancing.

[CuteBlackPearl]

Martha graham was a great dancer...just like Isadora Duncan.pioners of contemporanean dance. As you can see there are still parts of clasic dance in their movements...

You can see they project the most of the moves from their chest (solar plexus)

[Albert93230]

OK first i love this and second what is wed the music is cripe men jeje hoo wel jeje

[Saro4ka]

thank you google :)

[2mnyshp]

ok, dance aside. but these man-panties (manties) are a no-go!

[rubberbandman200]

funny to think that those hot girls are most likely dead or old as fuck

[micc69]

So this was what, 70-80 years ago? This is the modern equivalent of going on stage and ripping your skin off and turning it inside out then putting it back on while shitting lightsabers.

[TEAMOGANGER]

quien es lady gaga???



[apu3000]

@TEAMOGANGER es la mejor cantante que existe! I love u mom moster

[TheKomentor]

The dress the man is wearing is funny and distracting. Wonder why modern art has to so insist on nudity.

[CuteBlackPearl]

@TheKomentor maybe because Isadora duncan, pioneer of the modern dance only dressed a robe...theive keept it like that!

[MrRadaikon]

@TheKomentor modern Art? lol. Have you SEEN the inside of the Sistine chapel? There is nothing intrinsically wrong with seeing the naked body. Only mens wicked hearts make it so. The human body is beautiful. Plus one moves better unencumbered by heavy fabrics. That's just physics right there.

[Teztost3rpwn]

seems pretty damn modern for its day. what is this like circa 1940?

[sakuani]

@Teztost3rpwn 1947

[Mehenee]

It doesnt make much sense to me ... But it wasn't bad :)

[botica789]

LADY GAGA EN EL PASADO"!!!

[MiaLouification]

lol @ 4:15

[WrathofTim]

they are kinda out of sync

[TheBelzebuddha]

4:16 lol, someone poop this scene, please

[RachaelOest]

Yes, Google brought me here... moving on... Her influence on dance has been compared with Stravinsky w/Music & Picasso w/Art. I'm a Singer now & used to Dance (obviously not as well as her or you'd be looking me up instead). I'm confused though. Maybe I'm abusing the rewind button on my DVR when I watch DWTS & think I know more than I actually do about dance but, it looked completely out of sync & I only know the story of what happened because it was in the description. Beautiful just confusing.

[MrWhatev4r]

@RachaelOest haha taken from wikipedia.

[cupnoodls]

i dont get it

[jhasjkfhkjs]

Thumbs up if this not makes any sense.

[SelfPotato13]

@jhasjkfhkjs fail

[shadowmaker16]

I love todays google animation, but i think i love this more :)

[MadCherry]

i never liked the dance, but this... oh my... her passion, amazing.

[randomperson001]

First!

[ReemXD1]

روعة صراحتا ..it's really fantastic



[vanessacielo]

i like the video,

[LuffyKun01]

that background "song" will make me to have nightmares lol

[keeanh]

4:15 Awesome invisible pogo stick. I wish I could do that.

[Beloveable925]

WTF! can you say LADY GAGA!! she is such a copyCAT.. first MADONNA now MARTHA.. why cant that B***CH be original like she claims she is!

[jsarellano2]

@Beloveable925 Martha started her career in 1920's how can she copy Madonna, she was not born yet. So yeah Martha's work is original. That why some of the video is black and white. duh.

[Beloveable925]

@jsarellano2 what I meant was LADY GAGA is such a COPY CAT of both Madonna and Martha =)

[nowsaturate1]

@Beloveable925 lolwat



[tr2beuty]

You guys have to remember that back then no one had done these types of dance moves before. All of this later influenced on dance and modernized into what we see on TV today.

[KARIM0087]

Fuk google! Wastin our tym basterds! Dis is nxt level weird shit

[mariamqwert]

this... is weird... lol

[Hantout25]

who understand anything from this show??

[mohsen2024]

hhhhh why google celebrte by this woman

I dont see anything special

[vickynga969]

@mohsen2024 have you ever tried a class of graham??? its incredible hard to learn this contemporary technique you need lots of strenght and flexibility... Google celebrates this amazing woman because she changed the dance arround the world...

[mohsen2024]

@vickynga969

lol !! u r a dancer so u say this

but I am not

[TheDeivis120]

what



[TheDeivis120]

i dont no

[Hantout25]

tell me o_O how can this guy keep his penis down when he's holding a woman like that???

[TheDeivis120]

i live in england

[OliviaTheGeek]

I realise this will probably get a lot of hate, but I don't get why everyone likes her...it just looks like a bunch of weird movements.

[teddybeyr]

@OliviaTheGeek I said earlier, now I know who to blame for making 'flopping around' constitute as a 'dance'. It really isn't that pretty. The women in the opening are not in sync, it's distracting, and looks like - sorry to say - a really bad old sci-fi movie from the 1950's. It's trying to be artistic for the sake of being artistic and just fails. That's my opinion, then again she's compared to Picasso who I felt was a hack too.

[TheDeivis120]

who is this ?



[bluerap04]

This shit is crazy.

[KCAB229]

Holy hell, all those dancers have such amazing bodies.

[bazinga3206]

amazing dance!

[Mastragat]

Thumbs up if you wouldn't have known there were gonna be "thumbs up if you already knew there were gonna be comments saying "thumbs up if google brought you here""

[DafniElissa]

that's very strange.

[Gosuwalk]

what means the rope someone know?

[DafniElissa]

@Gosuwalk jocasta si impicca.

[Gosuwalk]

@DafniElissa ohh thanx now i understand.

[DafniElissa]

@Gosuwalk sorry if I used Italian, but I didn't know the English word for "impiccarsi"!!

[Gosuwalk]

@DafniElissa oh dont worry y googled it.. :D

[DiVineManifestations]

@Gosuwalk, just guessing but I saw the rope as the tie between the two (Husband and Wife who were actually son and mother) once exposed, eventually caused her death.

[Gosuwalk]

@DiVineManifestations oh that is so complex



[DiVineManifestations]

@Gosuwalk, not as complex as the play itself, but an interesting read. :-)

[Bigoudeneuh]

Vive Google ! Ce moteur de recherche nous fait découvrir des choses vraiment fantastiques. La chorégraphie est tout simplement magnifique, très bien orchestrée. Les scars de Martha sont très synchronisées. SUPER !

[ahmeddriny]

So Fantastic Realy !!!

[MimiKissAss]

2:28 Blooming fault this was thriller at that time :L

[ximel933]

@MimiKissAss Good one!!!!! Hahaha

[virtualcf]

Kto z Polski ?

[yayashta]

thumbs up if you already knew there were gonna be comments saying something like : "thumbs up if you already knew there were gonna be comments saying : thumbs up if google brought you here" :D :D

[ximel933]

@yayashta Oh yeah!!!! Thanks google

[lilmissshimmy]

Amazing! This is soo beyond her time! Thanks Google!

[kakarooku]

thumbs up if yo- DAMN LOOK AT THAT GUY'S ASS

[Msishypop]

Thank you Google. . .

[ximel933]

@Msishypop Yes, i saw this for Google too

[BANGOCP]

madnessssssssssss



[Yuraovidaeamor]

q coisa horrivel... a arte deve ser sim: dramatica, por vezes triste, ou alegre, euforica, tenebrosa... mas nunca deve deixar de ser bela... no fundo tem q haver beleza sempre...

"Não existe algo como musica abstrata; existe musica boa e musica ruim. Se for boa, significa alguma coisa". (RICHARD STRAUSS)

acho q isso se aplica tb a musica comtemporanea, dança e todo tipo de arte

isso nao é arte, é só expressão

[McGturtle3]

This is creepy to me

[koralikum]

i saw google. there was about Martha, so i read some about her and now i'm watching this. Great dance

[gracielepio1]

chato demais

[rueya1997]

in my shool was a martha.... she is a victim (also opfer)

[oFrauausSeideo]

@rueya1997 Ich weiß zwar nicht, was das mit diesem Video zu tun hat , aber immer schön dran denken: alles was Du tust, kommt in irgendeiner Form zu Dir zurück. Im Guten wie im Bösen!