Writing in 1912, J. E. Crawford Flitch sees a renaissance of dance under way and traces how it came about: ancient attitudes to dancing, the rise, heyday and decline of the ballet, the skirt dance and Loie Fuller’s serpentine dance, and the new barefoot and Russian dancers. He is sceptical of mere spontaneity sold as Greek art.
A contemporary eyewitness to the years when modern dance and the Ballets Russes transformed the stage. Download the free EPUB.