Adolescence (Prelude and Song) was an early modern dance solo choreographed by Martha Graham to music by Paul Hindemith.
[1] The all-solo program included two other new works, Danza and Resurrection, and eight previously performed pieces: Dance, Immigrant, Valses Sentimentales, Four Insincerities, Tanagra, Two Variations from Sonatina, Fragilité and Fragments.
[2] Seattle's Week Town Crier described the work as depicting youth, "curious, yearning, fearful, swept away by strange visions and dreams.
A very difficult, complex thing made sweepingly beautiful by its utter simplicity and sincerity.
Simple and stark in design, it is at the same time warm and tender in mood, childishly frank and yet deft and penetrating.