ABSTRACT

In the 1950s, it was all about the myth of beauty – Western culture’s awesome obsession with symmetry, balance, transcendent line, central perspective, spiritual perfection, whiteness, lightness, and all things bright and beautiful. The art form of ballet perpetuated the myth in its training,

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sensation of longing for something higher and outside of myself.