Fragilité (ballet)

Fragilité was a modern dance solo choreographed by Martha Graham to music by Alexander Scriabin.

16 No.2; Tanzstück; Deux Valses; Danse; Tanagra; Esquisse Antique; Lucrezia; Alt-Wein; La Cancion; Ronde; Two Poems of the East and Baal Shem.

Graham performed with her small company of dancers: Evelyn Sabin, Betty MacDonald and Rosina Savelli.

[2] According to Dance Magazine's critic, "Fragilité was done in a stylized transparent evening dress made of organdy, exposing enough of the body to see its outline clearly, doing justice to the title.

"[3] In the biography Martha, Graham's longtime friend Agnes De Mille described the solo as "an exquisite mood picture" done "in half-light, with Martha standing on an elevation of two shallow, round steps dressed in blue gauze of a moonlit translucency..." "It was a dance of such enticement, allure, promise, and evanescence as to tease and excite with the power of dreams.