Word: withcraft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss St. Denis' art seems to me a secondary one. She is probably without equal in this country in her hand-and-arm technique--it seems like a form of withcraft the way she can make her arms turn into writhing cobras, or her hands become slowly-opening lotus blossoms--and it is no less fascinating to see her make a piece of fabric tell a story. But all of these things seem to belong to the decorative arts, not to the creative. However, every dancer, indeed every interpretative artist, could still learn much from her, as many...