I
don't know who composed the music for this ballet, but I know an
Egyptian-born composer Halim el Dabh composed music for another one.
Set by sculptor Isamu Noguchi.
I
saw Martha Graham twice in Burma, once when I was 10 and another time
when she came in 1970s? but she could no longer dance then. In fact I remember I met my classmate Arthur C at this concert.
In introduction to this piece, she talks about her first visit to Burma.
The phrase she refers to is mon yoe tair, for when an elephant goes into musth, and might have been told to her by poet Zawgyi.
km
5-4-2019
