Lamentation - Martha Graham

i really don't see anything special or beautiful here... can anyone clue me in to why this is different from any othercrazy woman contorting herself?

can't answer you that because u really don't seem to have the sensibility or knowledge to understand. u better get some information about Graham and modern dance - this is the is the best clue.

Understandable. Sometimes early modern dance is difficult to relate to because it seems so simple and old fashioned. However, if you look at the time in which is was created and put it in context, it makes sense why it would move so many people. Also, this was just after the great depression hit in america, and many people were suffering. It embodied the teeth-gnashing, ugly feeling of true grief. Or at the very least, the awful frustrated feeling of trying to get out of of your own skin.

It stuns and amazes me, the choreographic genious and raw emotion that Ms. Graham found in a tube of material, a bench, and the subject of pain and grief. This dance is beautiful.

Anyone know where I can get the music for this?/

Graham is amazin, the technique amazin so much expression, passion, raw, strong and has so much emotion within it words just dont sum it up

One of my favorites!

this is so beautiful.

This dance is so amazing live too! Incredible

Martha 's creation "Lamentations" captures the essence of grief. Truly a work of art by a genius.