Dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance, was influenced by Jungs concept of the collective unconscious. In her autobiography, she said There are always ancestral footsteps behind me, pushing me, pushing me, when I am creating a new dance, and gestures are flowing through me. In Night Journey (1947) Graham reinterpreted the Greek myth of Oedipus in Jungian terms, telling the story from Queen Jocastas viewpoint through a flashback that merges past, present, and future. The ropes represent their joint fate as well as the umbilical cord that once joined Oedipus and Jocasta, who hangs herself with the ropes at the end of the ballet.