Frank Kermode’s Poet and Dancer: Before Diaghilev Group 1 Stephanie Peck and Edited By: Laura Pratt and Dr. Kay Picart

Reformist Movement Paris 1909 Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes Correlation between prose and dance Bloomsbury Group Symbolist poetry and the “emblem of the Image” (Mester 3)

Sui Generis Lois Fuller “Symbol of Art itself” Dancing and dehumanization Become an expression of the soul Objectification into “an almost inhuman state” (Kermode 154)

Talk to Her Expressionism as a form of the primal essence of self ________________ Rejecting the cultural construction of dance Significance of ending the film with Ruth Amarante’s ‘Masurca Fogo'

Works Cited Kermode, Frank. “Poet and Dancer: Before Diaghilev.” What is Dance? Koritz, Amy. Gendering Bodies/ Performing Art. UP of Michigan, Mester, Terri. Movement and Modernism. Fayetteville, Arkansas UP Talk to Her. Dir. Pedro Almodóvar