Music: Zoltan Kodály (Piano piece op. 3, no. 2).
Choreography and costume: Martha Graham.
Premiere: on Jan 8, 1930 in New York City (Maxine Elliott's Theatre).
Dancer at the premiere: Martha Graham.
Lamentation, my dance of 1930, is a solo piece in which I wear a long tube
of material to indicate the tragedy that obsesses the body, the ability to
stretch inside your own skin, to witness and test the perimeters and boundaries
of grief, which is honorable and universal.
(Martha Graham, Blood Memory)
This ballet is in the repertory of the Paris Opera Ballet (premiered by Fanny Gaïda in 1998).