Miki Orihara and The Martha Graham Dance Company in "Steps in the Street" from Chronicle (1936)

Photograph of Miki Orihara and The Martha Graham Dance Company in "Steps in the Street" from Chronicle (1936). Photograph taken at the City Center Theatre in New York City.

"This is a moment of 'Declaration of Being'. In 'Steps in the Street', the leader has a voice. The leader’s voice is the other women’s voice: I am here in the midst of hardship, chaos, and nothingness – we want to show our being. Our being as a person, being as a woman, and being as a group of women. We are here, and we are standing here together. That is our struggle."
– Miki Orihara as the leader in "Steps in the Street" from Chronicle

Pictured from left to right: Jennifer Foreman, Jessica Delia, Brenda Nieto-Salgado, Carrie Ellmore-Tallitsch, Miki Orihara, Catherine Lutton-Espinosa, Jennifer Conley, Nya Bowman, and Heidi Stoeckley.

Premiere of Chronicle: December 20, 1936 – Guild Theatre, New York City
Choreography by Martha Graham
Costumes by Martha Graham
Music by Wallingford Riegger

Photographer Unknown