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Production

Clytemnestra (1963)

APGRD id
7191
Start date
August 1963
Production Media
Choreographic work (dance, ballet, mime, dumbshow, performance art etc.)
Associated ancient works
Companies
Martha Graham and Dance Company
APGRD Notes
British premiere, and UK tour, of the 1958 production (see ID 4251), a three-act dance treatment of the Oresteia. This production was accompanied by an exhibition of Graham's work in the American embassy, Governor Square, London.
URI
https://apgrd.classics.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/7191
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Martha Graham (1894-1991) Choreographer
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Title Year Format Content
Epic quality in dancing of Clytemnestra Photocopy review
Title Contributors Year Format Pagination
Agamemnon in Performance: 458 BC to AD 2004 Inga-Stina Ewbank, Susanna Phillippo, Dmitry Trubotshkin, Margaret Reynolds, Yopie Prins, Amanda Wrigley, Lorna Hardwick, Michael Ewans, Massimo Fusillo, Pantelis Michelakis, Helene Foley, Pat E. Easterling AKA Patricia, Rush Rehm, Fiona Macintosh, Anton Bierl, Pierre Judet de la Combe, Edith Hall, Oliver Taplin, J. Michael Walton Book