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Nostalgic film spectacles from the golden era of mass entertainment employed decorative visual motifs of the female form. This technique, exemplified by the famous choreographer Busby Berkley, was more concerned with the ability of the chorus girls to arrange themselves into attractive geometric patterns than with any real dance skills. Here in this short sequence taken from the Hollywood musical extravaganza 42nd Street (1933), Judy Darragh traps the viewer in a never ending cycle - travelling through a kaleidoscopic tunnel of twitching legs…
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Date:
1 March – 31 March 2010 -
Exhibition number:
840B