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This article examines international marionette choreography by the Ballets Russes' Michel Fokine, the avant-garde Bauhaus artist Oskar Schlemmer, and the Japanese-born modern dancer Ito Michio.
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"Modernism's Dancing Marionettes" demonstrates that disparate forms of dance in the modernist period were all interested in the puppet as a figure for the interface of mechanization and individual human movement.
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This page is a summary of: Modernism's Dancing Marionettes: Oskar Schlemmer, Michel Fokine, and Ito Michio, Modernist Cultures, May 2014, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/mod.2014.0077.
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