Horizons was a modern dance work choreographed by Martha Graham to music by Louis Horst with a set designed by Alexander Calder.
[3] The Springfield Union's reviewer agreed, writing that Horizons marked a milestone in Graham's artistic evolution, as she transitioned from the abstract to work with "utilitarian or social content.
The New York Telegraph's reviewer ridiculed it as "a series of floating balloons, ropes wriggling like sleepy snakes, and something that resembled a huge turnip...turning in the changing light.
"[1] The New York Times dance critic John Martin described it as "representing Miss Graham at her most abstract," adding that the mobiles "were greeted by a series of cheers, boos and hisses.
"[8] The New York Post reporter cheered the audience response and mocked the use of mobiles to "enlarge the sense of the horizon...a monstrous corkscrew rotating sullenly in a frustrated attempt to prick a coy blue balloon which turned squeakily against a red background.