Modern dancing and dancers

"Modern Dancing and Dancers" by J. E. Crawford Flitch is a historical exploration of dance, mainly on ballet and its legendary performers. Written in the early 1900s, the narrative examines the changes in how society thought about dance and its presence in different cultures and societies, featuring famous and lesser-known people involved in dancing, while starting by discussing historical views of dance, emphasizing its importance in culture and how it has been seen as both serious art and a light activity – introducing the revival of dance at the time and various dancers who became famous, while recognizing that criticizing dance is complicated because of emotional expression and the connection between a dancer and their work, implying that the book examines the meanings and details of dance in the modern world.