Artistic luxury at the 1900: exposition Universelle in Paris.(Dance review)

For the better part of 1900 much of the Western world's attention was focused on Paris, the "City of Light," glowing with as much optimism for the future as with electric illumination. (1) There, against a backdrop of legendary dance, theatrical, operatic, and other musical performances, an aesthetic drama of a different kind was playing out before the more than 50 million visitors to the Exposition Universelle, which opened in April and ran through November. Grand display halls contrasted with the idiosyncratic collection of international pavilions in every conceivable national tradition. Nearly eighty thousand exhibits from almost sixty countries were arranged for ...