Medea (ballet)
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Medea, Op. 23, is a ballet suite by American composer Samuel Barber. It was commissioned by the Ditson Fund of Columbia University for Martha Graham and was premiered on 10 May 1946, at Columbia Unive
Samuel Barber in 1944
Erick Hawkins
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Frederick "Erick" Hawkins was an American modern-dance choreographer and dancer.
Medea (ballet)
…retitled Cave of the Heart. Costumes were designed by Edythe Gilfond and the set was created by Isamu Noguchi. The original cast list included Graham, Erick Hawkins, Yuriko, May O'Donnell, and other members of the Martha Graham Dance Company. Although loosely based on Euripides' play Medea, neither Barber nor Graham…
Hawkins in El Penitente, 1930s