Articles Critique



Articles Critique

The Dance is a weapon

In her article, “The Dance Is a Weapon,” Ellen Graff discusses dance as a vital part of a search for economic and social equality in the midst of the Great Depression. Some dancers of this era were caught between their political ideals (either communist of sympathetic to the social and economic implications of communism) and the artistic ideals of the equally revolutionary, but nonpolitical, modern dance movement. Should leftist choreographers borrow the aesthetics of bourgeois choreographers such as their use of trained dancers and sophisticated choreographic methods? Or should the dances of the left ...