The Martha Graham Dance Company Deep Song Deep Song

In conjunction with the exhibition Pity and Terror in Picasso. The Path to Guernica and the eightieth anniversary of the first showing of Guernica, the Museo Reina Sofía presents Deep Song by Martha Graham (1894–1991), a dance solo created by the American choreographer as a response to the Spanish Civil War and performed, on this occasion, by Blakeley White-McGuire from the Martha Graham Dance Company.

Deep Song, a brief choreographic piece (4’48’’) inspired by the armed conflict in Spain and conceived the same year Picasso painted Guernica, embodies the fears of a world divided by individual inhumanity. The focal point of the evening session will be on contextualising and discussing this choreography, and will include the screening of documentary material followed by a conversation with the dancer performing the work.