She has a reputation for reserve: for being likable but shy and thin-skinned, and not at all comfortable with the personal impact of having created a modern myth, sold four hundred and fifty million books, and inspired more than six hundred thousand pieces of Harry Potter fan fiction, a total that increases by at least a thousand stories a week.

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That bill includes "Cave of the Heart" (1946, to Samuel Barber's "Medea"), a four-dancer distillation of the myth of Jason and Medea, and "Night Journey" (1947, to a William Schumann commission), a flashback view of an anguished Jocasta and her incestuous relationship with Oedipus, her son.

WSJ: Martha Graham's Mythology | Joyce Theater | By Robert Greskovic