''Chorale'' is a modern dance work choreographed by

Martha Graham Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American modern dancer and choreographer. Her style, the Graham technique, reshaped American dance and is still taught worldwide. Graham danced and taught for over seventy years. She wa ...

to music by

César Franck César-Auguste Jean-Guillaume Hubert Franck (; 10 December 1822 – 8 November 1890) was a French Romantic composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher born in modern-day Belgium. He was born in Liège (which at the time of his birth was p ...

. The piece premiered on April 18, 1926, at

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's 48 Street Theater in the first independent concert presented by Graham. Members of the newly formed Martha Graham Concert Group, Thelma Biracree, Evelyn Sabin and Betty Macdonald, also appeared in the piece. A critic for ''The Democrat-Chronicle'' reported the dance was "subtle" with a "dark, emotional mood." The all-Graham program also featured the ballets: ''Arabesque No. 1'', ''Clair de Lune'', ''Danse Languide'', ''Danse Rococo'', ''Désir'', ''Deux Valses'', ''Intermezzo'', ''Maid with the Flaxen Hair'', ''The Marionette Show'', ''Masques'', ''Novelette'', ''Portrait--After Beltran-Masses'', ''A Study in Lacquer'', ''Tanze'', ''The Three Gopi Maidens,'' and ''Trois Gnossiennes''.''Martha Graham in a Concert Program with Louis Horst, Pianist, assisted by the Martha Graham Concert Group and Mabel Zoeckler, Soprano'', Concert Program, April 18, 1926 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/ihas/service/graham.1/200153243/200153243.pdf

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