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Showing posts with label dance. Show all posts
1 Jun 2025

Dancing a Sailor's Hornpipe with Legs & Co.

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  The girls of Legs & Co. on  Blue Peter    (BBC Television, 14 Jan 1980) [1]   I.     There are numerous variations of the hornpipe , b...
13 Jun 2018

The Ballerina is Not a Girl Dancing

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In a late prose piece, Mallarmé makes the provocative claim that "the ballerina is not a girl dancing ". Indeed, according...
20 Feb 2018

Case Studies from The White Stocking 2: Sam Adams (A Lothario Who Makes Love to Music)

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I. In an essay written in 1927, Lawrence examines the idea that dancing is essentially a form of making love to music , or rhythmic...
19 Mar 2016

Dancing Barefoot (with Reference to the Case of Alice Howells)

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From Zarathustra to Patti Smith , there has long been a perverse fascination with the thought of young women dancing barefoot...
5 Dec 2015

Making Love to Music

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Etruscan dancers in a tomb near Tarquinia, Italy (c 470 BC)  Provocative dance moves, such as grinding and twerking , are obviousl...
15 Mar 2013

In Praise of the Swan Princess

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Like Zarathustra, I have always been a fan of girls who choose to devote themselves to the harsh discipline of classical dance: how...
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