@article{ntn 1498, author = {Anne Witchard}, title = {Bedraggled Ballerinas on a Bus Back to Bow: The ‘Fairy Business’}, volume = {0}, year = {2011}, url = {http://19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1498/}, issue = {13}, doi = {10.16995/ntn.618}, abstract = {<p>This paper begins to explore cultural connections between mid-Victorian music hall and dance modernism by looking at the role of the female dancer and her traverse of the socio-geographical space between the East End and the West End. I argue that by examining the ‘lost’ history of music-hall ballet we might find an indigenous performative tradition that presupposes the impact of the Ballets Russes on the London stage.</p>}, month = {9}, keywords = {Theatre,Bloomsbury,Dance,Pantomime,Modernism,Ballets Russes,Music Hall}, issn = {1755-1560}, publisher={Open Library of Humanities}, journal = {19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century} }