Joyce Herring in Martha Graham's Lamentation

Photograph of Joyce Herring in Martha Graham's Lamentation.

"The challenge of dancing Lamentation is to find the way the body moves while in the midst of deep, raw, wrenching anguish. A sorrow so deep that the body moves in primal, keening waves of motion and sharp inhalations of breath as it struggles futilely against the skin of the fabric. And then, to portray these emotions with the great honor and dignity they deserve." – Joyce Herring