‘Puppet of skeletal escapade’: Dance Dialogues in Mina Loy and Carl Van Vechten

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In an undated letter, likely composed in late 1914, Mina Loy reflected on the recent aesthetic experiences that had greatly affected her, writing ‘things have made [her] gasp were a few Picassos, Windham [ sic] Lewis, Nijinski dancing – perfection is infrequent’. The letter was addressed to her American agent Carl Van Vechten, dance and music critic at New York Times, who played highly influential role shaping discourses around ballet modern both US internationally. This article conjoins Vechten's modernist oeuvres crossing genres including poetry, novels, newspaper reviews, photography order reveal importance of their shifting commitments shared interest expressive capacities human form. Dancing bodies, moving fluently across work this pair, variously transcribe Futurist satires, Decadent revivals, primitivist fascination with erotic aspects dance, crystallising responses Harlem Renaissance.

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عنوان ژورنال: Modernist Cultures

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['2041-1022', '1753-8629']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2021.0331