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with the photographs on the floor in order to find the transitional material necessary for phrasing and emotional content. She would then bring these into the rehearsals with Graham to be reworked and molded. Since the original score was lost at the time, Cowell's
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Program notes for the troupe's 2015 season described "the forms of the dance – its swirls, crawls on the floor, contractions and falls" as "kinetic experiences of the human experience in war... It is the anatomy of anguish from tragic events."
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wrote the work was not among those that "seemed to do most completely what they set out to do," but could be categorized with dances having "aspects, elements, passages of beauty and power." He referred to
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was made. As Graham danced, the lines of her body in the long striped black and white dress formed graphic strokes of white against the black velvet backdrop.
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