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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
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Frank Kermode’sPoet 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 • 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.