Frank Kermode’s Poet and Dancer: Before Diaghilev
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Frank Kermode’s Poet and Dancer: Before Diaghilev Group 1 Stephanie Peck and Edited By: Laura Pratt and Dr. Kay Picart
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Frank Kermode’s Poet and Dancer: Before Diaghilev. Group 1 Stephanie Peck and Edited By: Laura Pratt and Dr. Kay Picart. Reformist Movement. Paris 1909 Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes Correlation between prose and dance Bloomsbury Group - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Frank Kermode’s
Poet and Dancer:Before Diaghilev
Group 1Stephanie Peck and Edited By: Laura Pratt and Dr. Kay Picart
Reformist Movement • Paris 1909
• Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
• Correlation between prose and dance• Bloomsbury Group• Symbolist poetry
and the “emblem of the Image” (Mester 3)
Sui Generis
• Lois Fuller“Symbol of Art itself”
• Dancing and dehumanization• Become an
expression of the soul
• Objectification into “an almost inhuman state”
(Kermode 154)
Talk to Her • Expressionism as a
form of the primal essence of self• ________________
• Rejecting the cultural construction of dance
• Significance of ending the film with Ruth Amarante’s ‘Masurca Fogo'
Works Cited• Kermode, Frank. “Poet
and Dancer: Before Diaghilev.” What is Dance?
• Koritz, Amy. Gendering Bodies/ Performing Art. UP of Michigan, 1995.
• Mester, Terri. Movement and Modernism. Fayetteville, Arkansas UP. 1997.
• Talk to Her. Dir. Pedro Almodóvar. 2002.
