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Whitman and Modern Dance

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Recounts the history of the creation and performance of choreographer Helen Tamiris's Walt Whitman Suite, a dance created in 1936 for the Federal Dance Project and based on "Salut au Monde," "Song of the Open Road," and "I Sing the Body Electric"; proposes that Tamiris is "a translator of Whitman's words into the new language of modern dance."

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How to Cite: Krieg, J. P. (2007) “Whitman and Modern Dance”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 24(4). doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1829