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From "Offering" to "Opening Dance" (2 works)
- Offering
- 1932
Performed to music by Hector Villa-Lobos, Offering premiered on June 2, 1932, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The solo work was danced by Martha Graham.
NOTE: there are no documents in the collections pertaining to this dance.
- Opening Dance
- 1927
Performed to music by Norman Lloyd, Opening Dance premiered on July 30, 1937, at the Bennington School of the Dance, Burlington, Vermont. The solo was danced by Martha Graham. Critic John Martin, writing for the New York Times (August 15, 1937), felt that the work "belongs in that most thankless category of the recital dancer, something to raise the curtain with."