Blood and Thunder.('Clytemnestra')(Dance review)(Brief article)

"Clytemnestra" (1958), Martha Graham's Oresteia, is an evening-length dance into which she put just about everything she had. The piece shows her grandiosity, her love of Greek myth, her flashing treatment of time, her casual attitude to music, and her brilliant use of costumes and props. The unforgettable prop is the vast red cloak in which Clytemnestra greets her husband, Agamemnon, when he returns (with a new concubine) from the Trojan War. First, she spreads it across the front of the stage, as a mark of the family's royalty. ...