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Title: "Lamentation", Martha Graham Dance Company
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Sergieff, Mike
Date Created and/or Issued: 1984
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Lamentation, is a solo piece where the dancer is seated on a bench. Her costume is a long stretching tube of material in which only her face, hands and bare feet can be seen. The movements are sparce and represent not a woman's mourning, but rather the pain itself.
Photograph shows an unidentified dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company, performing in "Lamentation". Photograph dated November 21, 1984.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;25 x 31 cm. on sheet 29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00088007
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b084_f1_i8
CARL0004978722
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/26871
Subject: Martha Graham Dance Company
Lamentation (Choreographic work : Graham)
Dance companies--United States
Dancers--United States
Dance--California--Los Angeles
Dance--Production and direction--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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