 Alien bodies
Author: Burt, Ramsay Published: 1998 A fascinating account of dance in Germany, France and the United States during the 1920s and 1930s, ranging across ballet, modern dance, dance in cinema and revue. The author looks at the work of European, African and white American artists and focuses on issues of national and racial identity, modernity, fascist use of mass spectacles, and ritualism and primitivism in modern dance. |
