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What did a 1930s ballet say about cultural appropriation in modernist Chicago? by Liesl Olson

La Guiablesse was imagined by and starring a white woman who choreographed the piece for her city's most talented black dancers. On a steamy summer evening in 1933, a group of young black dancers readied themselves into position behind the plush curtains of Chicago's Auditorium Theatre.…

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM on March 28, 2019

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