By Tim Rayborn,Abigail Keyes
Isadora Duncan's Neck procedures during the abnormal, grim, and accidentally funny historical past of dance, uncovering unusual tales and bizarre facts.
These darkish stories of homicide, contention, madness, and extra display every kind of grim goings-on, proving that--for dancers--life was once not only one grand plié. tales include:
From Roman Bacchanals to medieval and Renaissance dancing plagues, from the bloody international of ballet to scandals, ghosts, spirit possessions, superstitions, and extra, you are going to attend a grand ball of the unusual that indicates simply how lousy dancers, choreographers, or even viewers individuals were to one another over the centuries.
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