Available Works
The foundation administers the rights to these 23 works by Doris Humphrey. The rights to perform these works can be purchased. For information about acquiring the rights to perform these works, please see the Licensing Requirements.
Air for the G String (1928)
- Music: Johann Sebastian Bach
- Cast Required: 5 Women
- Approximate Length: 5 minutes
AIR ON A GROUND BASS (1929)
- Music: Henry Purcell
- Cast Required: 1 man and 1 woman
- Approximate Length: 3 minutes
DANCE OVERTURE (1957)
- Music: Paul Creston
- Cast Required: 6 men and 5 women
- Approximate Length: 11 minutes
DIONYSIAQUES (1932)
- Music: Florent Schmitt
- Cast Required: 2 men and 9+ women
- Approximate Length: 12 minutes
DRAMA OF MOTION (1930)
- Music: None
- Cast Required: 13 women (variable)
- Approximate Length: 14 minutes
DUO-DRAMA (1935)
- Music: Roy Harris
- Cast Required: 1 man and 1 woman
- Approximate Length: 25 minutes
ETUDE PATETICO (1928)
- Music: Alexander Scriabin
- Cast Required: 1 man and 1 woman
- Approximate Length: 3 minutes
FANTASY AND FUGUE (1952)
- Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Cast Required: 2 men and 4 women
- Approximate Length: 12 minutes
INVENTION (1949)
- Music: Norman Lloyd
- Cast Required: 1 man and 2 women
- Approximate Length: 11 minutes
LAMENT FOR IGNACIO SANCHEZ MEJIAS (1946)
- Music: Norman Lloyd
- Cast Required: 1 man, 1 woman, and 1 actress
- Approximate Length: 22 minutes
LIBATION BEARERS (1932)
- Music: Darius Milhaud
- Cast Required: 1 man and 10 women
- Approximate Length: 20 minutes
LIFE OF THE BEE (1929)
- Music: Paul Hindemith
- Cast Required: 3 men and 8 women
- Approximate Length: 13 minutes
NEW DANCE (ENTIRE) (1935)
- Music: Wallingford Riegger
- Cast Required: 4 men and 10+ women
- Approximate Length: 30 minutes
NIGHT SPELL (1951)
- Music: Priaulx Rainier
- Cast Required: 2 men and 2 women
- Approximate Length: 22 minutes
QUASI-VALSE (1929)
- Music: Alexander Scriabin
- Cast Required: 1 woman
- Approximate Length: 2 minutes
RUDEPOEMA (1934)
- Music: Heiter Villa-Lobos
- Cast Required: 1 man and 1 woman
- Approximate Length: 17 minutes
RUINS AND VISIONS (1953)
- Music: Benjamin Britten
- Cast Required: 4 men and 4 women
- Approximate Length: 40 minutes
SARABANDE (1928)
- Music: Jean Philippe Rameau-Godovsky
- Cast Required: 1 woman
- Approximate Length: 3 minutes
SCHERZO WALTZ (HOOP DANCE) (1924)
- Music: McNair Ilgenfritz
- Cast Required: 1 woman
- Approximate Length: 3 minutes
SOARING (1920)
- Music: Robert Schumann
- Cast Required: 5 women
- Approximate Length: 4 minutes
SONATA PATHETIQUE (1920)
- Music: Ludwig van Beethoven
- Cast Required: 7 women
- Approximate Length: 7 minutes
THE BANSHEE (1928)
- Music: Henry Cowell
- Cast Required: 1 woman
- Approximate Length: 3 minutes
THE CALL/BREATH OF FIRE (1929-30)
- Music: Dane Rudhyar
- Cast Required: 1 woman
- Approximate Length: 4 minutes
TWO ECSTATIC THEMES (1931)
- Music: : Nikolai Karolovich Medtner/Gian Francesco Malipiero
- Cast Required: 1 woman
- Approximate Length: 5 minutes
VALSE CAPRICE (SCARF DANCE) (1919)
- Music: Cecile Chaminade
- Cast Required: 1 woman
- Approximate Length: 4 minutes
*For more Doris Humphrey works contact the Dance Notation Bureau.
