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Through their art, modern dancers challenged conventional roles and images of gender, sexuality, race, class, and regionalism with a view of American democracy that was confrontational and participatory, authorial and populist.

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""[Foulkes's] idea that modern dance of the 1930s and 1940s embodied the aspirations of a democratic polity that included African Americans, gay men, and self-styled 'revolutionary' dancers of the left adds complexity to a history too often defined solely in terms of heroines and artistic giants."" - Lynn Garafola, author of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes

[Foulkes's] idea that modern dance of the 1930s and 1940s embodied the aspirations of a democratic polity that included African Americans, gay men, and self-styled 'revolutionary' dancers of the left adds complexity to a history too often defined solely in terms of heroines and artistic giants. - Lynn Garafola, author of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes

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JULIA FOULKES is a core faculty member of New School University in New York City, where she teaches history.

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