BIB_ID
193098
Accession number
MA 4560
Creator
Croly, Louise.
Display Date
[no year] Aug. 31 and "Tues." [n.d.].
Credit line
Gift; Mr. Charles Blum and Mr. Salvatore Saraceno; 1986.
Description
2 items (1 p.)
Summary
A touching letter on the death of Young's nephew, and sending thanks for a copy of his Feliciana. She also comments on Martha Graham's 1935 performances at Bennington: "I was [impressed] by the abstraction of her dances, by the submergence of the personal and individual, as displayed in the mask-like faces of the dancers. We all wondered if in Americans there wasn't some compensation taking place in the choice of such a form of dance. After all we are rather a mixed race, a highly excitable one, with some violence in us . . . We are betraying our emotion; we are losing the power of communicating naturally the beautiful features in human beings-our self-consciousness is corking up our feelings."
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