Frank Kermode’s

Poet and Dancer:Before Diaghilev

Group 1Stephanie 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, 1995.

• Mester, Terri. Movement and Modernism. Fayetteville, Arkansas UP. 1997.

• Talk to Her. Dir. Pedro Almodóvar. 2002.