Prologue
Art, as expressed on canvas or in bronze or marble, has always been sensitive to the influence of the dance. … Dancing, painting, and sculpture, are in a sense, the sister arts, however far apart they may seem in modes of expression at first glance. But what seems to me the interesting thing about the present condition in the art world is not merely that the dance is seeking to express many of the same emotions or ideas that the painting or the piece of sculpture is intended to portray, but rather that these two mediums of expression are borrowing more and more directly from the dance than they have for a long time.1
- Troy Kinney, New York Times, 1916