“It was one’s body feeling, not one’s mind”

The Russian ballet was celebrated amongst the Bloomsbury group in the early twentieth-century. Throughout 1910s-1930s, Virginia Woolf enjoyed Russian ballets such as Petrushka, Le Spectre de la Rose and Scheherazade staged by Michel Fokine and Sergei Diaghilev. The expressivity of the dancing body r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chloe Leung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2019-12-01
Series:Forum
Online Access:http://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/4141