Word: anguish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dressed in black, she began to dance in jerky, spastic movements-in anguish, as the program notes explained, for the besieged Israelites whose water supply had been cut off by Holofernes. When she got ready to visit the confident enemy, she stripped off her black "garments of mourning," decked herself with jewels and sidled forth clad in beige "garments of gladness." Composer Schuman's music took on a sinister cast, Dancer Graham a sinuous, Salome-ish look. The final victory dance, after Judith had whacked off the imaginary Holofernean head, was wildly exultant and percussive...