“There is fatigue so great that the body cries even in its sleep.” Martha Graham in her essay for This I Believe Last week I was poking around the website of This I Believe, the non-profit public radio organization that collects and shares essays about personal beliefs and guiding philosophies (and also my next FWT) when I found an essay written by Martha Graham. Her essay was written and recorded during the original This I Believe series that was started by Edward R. Murrow (my hero) in the 1950s. Though I don’t study dance at Bennington, I knew Martha Graham has an important role in the history of dance at Bennington so I was excited by the chance discovery. I’m now working on a project to record the voices of several Bennington dance students reading Martha Graham’s essay and to comment on what she means to them as dance students.

“There is fatigue so great that the body cries even in its sleep.”

Martha Graham in her essay for This I Believe

Last week I was poking around the website of This I Believe, the non-profit public radio organization that collects and shares essays about personal beliefs and guiding philosophies (and also my next FWT) when I found an essay written by Martha Graham. Her essay was written and recorded during the original This I Believe series that was started by Edward R. Murrow (my hero) in the 1950s. Though I don’t study dance at Bennington, I knew Martha Graham has an important role in the history of dance at Bennington so I was excited by the chance discovery. I’m now working on a project to record the voices of several Bennington dance students reading Martha Graham’s essay and to comment on what she means to them as dance students.

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