Alien Bodies

Alien Bodiesis a fascinating examination of dance in Germany, France, and the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. Ranging across ballet and modern dance, dance in the cinema and Revue, Ramsay Burt looks at the work of European, African American, and white American artists Among the artists who feature are * Josephine Bake * Jean Borli * George Balanchin * Jean Coctea * Valeska Ger * Katherine Dunha * Fernand Lege * Kurt Joos * Doris Humphre Concerned with how artists responded to the alienating experiences of modern life, Alien Bodiesfocuses on issues of * national and 'racial' identit * the new spaces of modernit * fascists uses of mass spectacle * ritual and primitivism in modern danc * the 'New Woman' and the slender modern body