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Article: Attitudes.(20th century dance)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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The 20th century could--at least in the Western world-be called the Century of the Woman. It was a century of emancipation and universal suffrage, women's rights, feminism, and, at least on paper, equal opportunity, if not equal wages. But despite any glass ceiling, it was a century of enormous progress for women. This progress was also evident in the arts, particularly dance, which during that very same century happened to be the emergent and rising art form. As Maurice Bejart put it, "In the theater, if the 19th century was the Century of Opera, then the 20th century was the Century of Dance." During the entire 20th century it was women who were fundamentally the movers ...
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