Martha Graham - LAMENTATION

A silent color film of Martha Graham dancing extracts of "Lamentation".
Filmed in 1943 at Bennington College by Russian-born sculptor Simon Moselsio. His wife, who took still photos of the same piece, explained ""We used two movie cameras for the motion picture, so we could take the picture from different angles.... I had the still camera around my neck and made the stills at the same time."
#marthagraham #dance

[@polpetta70]

It was 1943... can you imagine it? A woman, alone, doing things nobody understood at the time, but she had the Muses talking to her. There were no social media, she had only 2 dresses, a small room, she kept travelling, and trying with the force of her own imagination. So much respect and admiration.

[@keithryan2707]

True, pierre pouget, very true. But do you know what they also had in Weimaresque Berlin in the 1920s? Nazis. Just itching to seize control and wield power. I’d take the cultural backwater of New York over the avant garde of Berlin any day of the week. And besides, Martha Graham was teaching and performing in New York at least from the time she founded her Company and School in 1926, if not earlier. And Martha Graham is still being taught and performed and studied today, unlike the Berlin dancers you mention in your comment. Perhaps it is all merely hype and shrewd marketing. Or maybe it’s just that Martha Graham was truly a visionary, a genius, and an artist of such international merit that she really was the dancer of the century. Each viewer must decide that for them self.

[@keithryan2707]

Well, pierre pouget, I stand corrected.

[@mycabages5184]

Watching something like this really makes me feel like I'm an idiot course I didn't get it the first time. But then I did some research and apparently, it's not trying to show you how a person feels while in grief, but it represents grief itself. and honestly when I watched it the second time I tried to channel my own grief, but couldn't, yet I still felt it. I *felt* it. Didn't understand it. But I think that's the point

[@PGFTopera]

Merci pour cette fabuleuse vidéo. C'est une grande joie de voir bouger Martha Grapham. Jusqu'ici, je n'avais pu qu'imaginer cette sublime chorégraphie d'après les photos. Je pense à tout ce que cette femme géniale a apporté à la danse. Le niveau des commentaires émis par tant d'ignorants est désespérant.

[@46foryounger]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="425">7:05</a> trying to rid herself and escape from her own grief but she can’t ... last movement totally enveloped by it😓💔 one of the greatest works of art of all time.

[@salemfathi2532]

Nobody does it like her, the creator of this wondeful piece Thank you so much for sharing

[@46foryounger]

Martha took us places we never thought we could go even never having been there before. Such a genius!

[@zainabaria6838]

Omg I remember when my teacher showed this in class and people were dancing with it 😂😂😂

[@-lavender-777]

Zainab Aria hahahha i want a fun class like that

[@carolina-be1fe]

My class is looking at it now. The amount of times my friend and I have done this dance off the stage or on our window sills during FaceTime calls is embarrassing

[@varonymous6452]

Everybody in my class (including me) thought it was really creepy

[@rebekaclarissa8850]

My Brasil, #depre

[@keithryan2707]

“She is representing the collective grief of nations.” (Not an original thought of mine. I believe I first saw this thought articulated in an essay by Dance Historian and Critic Marcia B. Siegel.)

[@kidizzifly9206]

This dancer sort of represents the raw emotions of grief if you really think about it

[@FM2000_]

I don't know feel very different emotions seeing it .... I don't know if what r these emotions these are.. i have goosebumps

[@kinda_emo]

It's so eerie. Yet I love it. Martha Graham is a slay.... still kinda creepy though. 💜

[@b3naqua]

Soooooo magical ✨✨✨

[@dashy4939]

so basically my high school went on a Martha Graham field trip to a theater and it was all about her And when I tell you everybody lost it at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="342">5:42</a> -

[@ProVelvetX]

Blue Diamond

[@sanjulaabesinghe2565]

BTS black swan brought me here & um grateful 🦢💜

[@atpole818]

I heard from my professor this piece is about her losing a child in the womb and her grief

[@blueboieddie5481]

When you see you sleep paralysis demon.

[@danaepale8182]

Martha Graham es la mejor para las bailarinas como yo 😘 like si te gusta el ballet o eres bailarina

[@fordongreeman1764]

The music and her dancing gives me a weird feeling for some reason...

[@guiafb99]

When ur trying to find the perfect position in bed

[@pinellafranich6007]

Thanks a lot

[@Petrichor-oi9ly]

Now I know where Miranda July got her shirty dance from in the movie The Future...

[@tcbyjack]

Me at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="690">11:30</a> ok one more video then I’ll go to sleep. Me at 3am:

[@Smd249]

i do this when im bored

[@yukiboni]

same

[@aniqaambani8426]

I do this at interviews

[@yoevelynrodriguez411]

I have to be honest, watching her makes me feel schizophrenic and claustrophobic.

[@salemfathi2532]

The road to art is a rocky one

[@fordongreeman1764]

Me too...

[@aniqaambani8426]

That's her whole point, dahling. Read the title ;)

[@kinda_emo]

Honestly same

[@chloehall4270]

Grief can make you feel claustrophobic and imprisoned. You can’t escape it.

[@briandaurelle1013]

snuggie life

[@0capy]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="342">5:42</a>

[@desxse6309]

I can't understand, what is she doing? Can someone explain to me.

[@TDItaly98]

This is "Lamentation": she is trying to make the watcher feel her pain (at least that's what my theatre teacher told me lol)

[@mollyparton8078]

She is expressing what it is like to be bound by grief, the word 'Lamentation' itself means to passionately express grief or sorrow.

[@kidizzifly9206]

She is representing the raw emotions of grief

[@chriswainwright8759]

It's interesting and yes makes you feel her pain but it's not dance

[@DylainaAlexandria]

@@chriswainwright8759who defines what dance is? and what would make it "dance," since to you now it isn't?

[@Jen_The_Dancer]

We saw a picture in someone in a weird pose I'm this costume in my ballet class, and this exact word came from one of my classmates "that's me when I can't get my pants on" we all lost it 😂

[@carlosanndre6109]

Alguém mais está assistindo isso pq a professora pediu??

[@opiekundps8806]

What is this music?Who's playing?

[@melindakaiser9644]

Zoltan Kodaly

[@daanhilhorst791]

Oh Yeah yeah

[@kidizzifly9206]

Just stop.

[@naiya7401]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="406">6:46</a>

[@danikasan7308]

does anyone know in which year this was?

[@arinahagist3272]

1930

[@chriswainwright8759]

1904

[@augustinecubero6011]

1942

[@kitchristopher7]

1929

[@jennaandrews840]

when ur dabbing on the haters

[@guiafb99]

mic mic bungee omg I can't believe I read this on a martha graham video LMAO I love the internet

[@Logan-lh5tc]

we don’t need a Jake Pauler in the ARMY :) sorry 😐

[@russellwright9877]

sad ginger This may be the first time I’ve ever laughed in connection to Martha Graham. And I’m a dance teacher and historian! That made my day!

[@irunyas8403]

Omg stop XD

[@camillemarcondes1244]

eu gosto de fogarel gratis

[@gavone1980]

I could kill whoever shot this! WHY the zooming in & out? I want to see what her WHOLE body is doing at every moment of the dance. What a frustrating video.

[@russellwright9877]

gavone1980 I dunno. We’re so lucky this even exists. It is so very rare to see original dance film from the 1930s. And it’s complete! With Martha Graham dancing in her prime. So I just kind of go with it. I question the close-ups but I realize your facial expressions are relative yes a longshot would be helpful but I’m just grateful this exists

[@Carlos-lz7il]

It’s to show the shadows and contours of her movements shown through the costume

[@aniqaambani8426]

artists, lol

[@kkkriv7407]

Um, "planetbenjamin" : YEAR?? Martha herself or simply her company?!

[@planetbenjamin]

A silent color film of Martha Graham herself dancing extracts of "Lamentation". Filmed in 1943 at Bennington College by Russian-born sculptor Simon Moselsio. His wife, who took still photos of the same piece, explained ""We used two movie cameras for the motion picture, so we could take the picture from different angles.... I had the still camera around my neck and made the stills at the same time."

[@kkkriv7407]

@@planetbenjamin Wow, '43! thank you

[@j04oz1n8]

Que medo mano se loco garai

[@mateusmagalhaes2145]

Algum brasileiro ?

[@melmelmel_]

dab on dem haters

[@SP-mf9sh]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="378">6:18</a> I am cornholioo!

[@notrainnwilson6857]

HHHH DA B

[@meestweeduizend8893]

Thumbs up als je dit op je vwo kunst examen 2019 had 😂

[@-lavender-777]

Mees tweeduizend haha ja

[@-lavender-777]

Ik dit jaar

[@laurapv95]

No lo entiendo, de verdad que no.

[@13LuizK9]

que licho

[@idemandflowers767]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="3298">54:58</a>

[@aniqaambani8426]

chairsex

[@noeliapilar718]

I feel Traped and claustrophobic for some damn reason

[@archenwolf]

No offence, but I dont see much movement in this "dance"

[@a.anfaani2471]

Do the research and you will learn

[@sushiman2482]

The heck did I just watch?

[@mollyparton8078]

An incredibly moving piece that has touched thousands of people, it perfectly expresses how one person can be bound by grief and its horrendous affects.

[@chriswainwright8759]

@@mollyparton8078 true. It's not dance though is it

[@a.anfaani2471]

Chris Wainwright it is Graham technique

[@kitchristopher7]

Chris Wainwright dance can be whatever the dancer wants it to be. There is no right or wrong in dance, how boring would it be if there was such thing as the “right” dance?

[@haSHAH1]

manly ass feet

[@evelynalvarado5634]

Is this shit

[@Shaffaqwamiq]

Lmao tf is she doing? That ain’t no art

[@salemfathi2532]

Nobody does it like her, the creator of this wondeful piece Thank you so much for sharing