ABSTRACT
During the 1920s, jazz swept Paris like a whirlwind, its speed and syncopated rhythm echoing the mood of a society turned upside down by global war and massive technological change. Jazz affected not only social life in the postwar era, but art, music, literature, and, not the least, dance. This essay will look at the ways in which ballet choreographers working in Paris responded to the urgent rhythms of the Jazz Age.
