Available Works
The foundation administers the rights to these 23 works by Doris Humphrey. The rights to perform these works can be purchased. For infomation about acquiring the rights to perform these works, please go to 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 min
Dance Overture (1957)
Music: Paul Creston
Cast Required: 6 men and 5 women
Approximate Length: 11 min
Dionysiaques (1932)
Music: Florent Schmitt
Cast Required: 2 men and 9+ women
Approximate Length: 12 min
Drama Of Motion (1930)
Music: None
Cast Required: 13 women (variable)
Approximate Length: 14 min
Duo-Drama (1935)
Music: Roy Harris
Cast Required: 1 man and 1 woman
Approximate Length: 25 min
Etude Patetico (1928)
Music: Alexander Scriabin
Cast Required: 1 man and 1 woman
Approximate Length: 3 min
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: 2 women and 1 man
Approximate Length: 11 min
Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias (1946)
Music: Norman Lloyd
Cast Required: 1 man, 1 woman and 1 actress
Approximate Length: 22 min
Libation Bearers (1932)
Music: Darius Milhaud
Cast Required: 1 man and 10 women
Approximate Length: 20 min
Life of the Bee (1929)
Music: Paul Hindemith
Cast Required: 3 men and 8 women
Approximate Length: 13 min
New Dance (entire) (1935)
Music: Wallingford Riegger
Cast Required: 4 men and 10+ women
Approximate Length: 30 min
Night Spell (1951)
Music: Priaulx Rainier
Cast Required: 2 men and 2 women
Approximate Length: 22 min
Quasi-Valse (1929)
Music: Alexander Scriabin
Cast Required: 1 woman
Approximate Length: 2 min
Rudepoema (1934)
Music: Heiter Villa-Lobos
Cast Required: 1 man and 1 woman
Approximate Length: 17 min
Ruins and Visions (1953)
Music: Benjamin Britten
Cast Required: 4 men and 4 women
Approximate Length: 40 min
Sarabande (1928)
Music: Jean Philippe Rameau-Godovsky
Cast Required: 1 woman
Approximate Length: 3 min
Scherzo Waltz (Hoop Dance) (1924)
Music: McNair Ilgenfritz
Cast Required: 1 woman
Approximate Length: 3 min
Soaring (1920)
Music: Robert Schumann
Cast Required: 5 women
Approximate Length: 4 min
Sonata Pathetique (1920)
Music: Ludwig van Beethoven
Cast Required: 7 women
Approximate Length: 7 min
The Banshee (1928)
Music: Henry Cowell
Cast Required: 1 woman
Approximate Length: 3 min
The Call/Breath of Fire (1929-30)
Music: Dane Rudhyar
Cast Required: 1 woman
Approximate Length: 4 min
Two Ecstatic Themes (1931)
Music: Nikolai Karolovich Medtner/Gian Francesco Malipiero
Cast Required: 1 woman
Approximate Length: 5 min
Valse Caprice (Scarf Dance) (1919)
Music: Cecile Chaminade
Cast Required: 1 woman
Approximate Length: 4 min
*For more Doris Humphrey works contact the Dance Notation Bureau.