18 JANUARY 1957, page 22

Dancing Folk

THE European atmosphere at the close of the nineteenth century was unsympathetic to all forms of the art of dance; and it is more than mere coincidence that the many movements......

Ballet Books

Two pairs of books (two each on contemporary Russian and on non-Russian ballet) precisely re- flect the impact of the two kinds of ballet on their respective societies. Ballet......

Unconscious Humour

JUST occasionally you meet a film so outrageously, exuberantly and felicitously bad that it brings happy tears to the eyes. Such a film has " turned up this week and for a jolly......