caa a22 4500 388047895 CHVBK 20180307125043.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1477893 doi S0149767700004800 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1477893 Burt Ramsay Dance, Gender and Psychoanalysis: Martha Graham's Night Journey [Elektronische Daten] [Ramsay Burt] Now Jocasta kneels on the floor at the foot of the bed and then she rises with her leg close to her breast and to her head, and her foot way beyond her head, her body open in a deep contraction. I call this the vaginal cry; it is the cry from her vagina. It is either the cry for her lover, her husband, or the cry for her children. The dance proceeds but there are small intimacies that I have never revealed in words. All of these things mean a tremendous amount to me. I don't talk about them much because people might think I'm a little cuckoo. But as other people took over the dance it seemed necessary to explain the certain small mysteries that animate the instant in the reliving of the tale. (Graham 1991, 214) Martha Graham wrote this passage about the opening of Night Journey (1947) in her autobiography Blood Memory (1991). Night Journey tells the story of Jocasta who at the end of her life is reluctantly forced by the blind prophet Tiresias to relive the most significant and thus painful moments of her life. Graham too, at the end of her own life, seems almost to have been forced, perhaps by time or perhaps by the obligation to fulfil a publisher's contract, to write her autobiography (1). There is a nice symmetry here. Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 1998 Dance Research Journal Cambridge University Press 30/1(1998), 34-53 0149-7677 30:1<34 1998 30 DRJ https://doi.org/10.2307/1477893 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1477893 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Burt Ramsay NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Dance Research Journal Cambridge University Press 30/1(1998), 34-53 0149-7677 30:1<34 1998 30 DRJ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge