2nd Place: $250 cash prize and a Martha Graham Dance Company T-Shirt:
SARA SARCUNI

3rd Place: $250 cash prize and a Martha Graham Dance Company T-Shirt:
PAUL MORALES

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Thanks to all of you who have participated!

Today is the final day of the Martha Graham Company’s week-long run at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. What a thrill! It’s been a bit tiring dealing with jet lag, language differences, long work days in the theater, interviews, classes and even company auditions. But in my opinion, it has been a tremendous success.

Of the three programs we presented here, I danced in Errand Into the Maze, Maple Leaf Rag, Clytemnestra, Chronicle, and Lamentation Variations. My regular repertory was pared down since I am recovering from an injury; I even have off for the final show tonight. Typically, I don’t enjoy nights off; like any other dancer I’d rather be onstage. Tonight, however, I took it as an opportunity to get a new point of view and had fun sitting with the audience in such a beautiful theater to experience the dance with them. The closing evening’s performance was Clytemnestra, Graham’s evening-length work based on the Greek legend of the House of Atreus.

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on line video competition to recreate moments from Martha Graham’s “Clytemnestra”

Blakeley White-McGuire as Cassandra

CASSANDRA is a Prophetess and mistress of King Agamemnon. She warns the people that the King is being murdered, but is not believed.

With this video i would like to recollocate the ancient Greek myth of Cassandra in the actual world scenario, as its story has still relevance today. A modern Cassandra will probably keep on announcing forthcoming tragedies, sufferings and iniquities all over the world from Kenya to Darfur, from Brasil to Afghanistan,from Europe to USA.
But I also wanted to give a sign of hope, because we can believe to what Cassandra’s foresees. We MUST develop our way of seeing thing, we have the right to think differently and operate accordingly to prevent harmful events that will just ruin our world.
we should follow more artists way of viewing things.
we should pursue beauty, love, care for human beings and for the whole planet.
Behind my personal Cassandra remash there’s a confident message of HOPE.

Submitted by Sara Sarcuni

The Messenger predicts the fate of those involved….

Submitted by Jeanna Petersen

Inspired by Martha Graham’s “Clytemnestra”, this cinematic adaptation delves into the motives and pre-meditation of a woman one the verge of commiting a heinous crime.

It features contemporary dancer, Myra Beltran, in a Manila closer to Graham’s time.

Submitted by Paul Morales

Clytemnestra Project - Cassandra

Submitted by Kyunghee Kang

Student prepares for Winter Concert of Dance 2008 at the Kalamazoo School of Music & Dance

Submitted by Jessica Martin

a modern dance piece created and performed by Ann Marie Manzoeillo, at Columbia College Chicago

Submitted by Ann Marie Manzoeillo

John Murphy ReMixes Graham Dance Company footage for a different take on Martha Graham’s Clytemnestra. Original footage by Graham Dance Company. Additional images by John Murphy.
Original music by John Murphy

Submitted by John Murphy

This is an excerpt from After the Fall, a piece I choreographed in 2008 for INSPIRIT, a dance company’s Company Choreographic Commissioning Project. The piece is inspired by the play The Trojan Women, and uses the characters of the historic tragedy to try and depict the current tragedies unfolding around the world.

Submitted by Sharon Manuel