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amyellerlewis's review against another edition
3.0
Useful to current project, though not as in depth as I would have liked. This woman deserves her own full length rock opera. Or at the very least, a fully researched biography.
allisonthurman's review against another edition
3.0
I read this one and the Marchesa Casati book ("Infinite Variety") back to back, as I thought them somewhat similar - two outrageous women of the teens and twenties.
This book had more history about Weimar Berlin and it's modern dance culture, which isn't a bad thing; I only take one star because it almost assumes you've also read the same author's "Voluptuous Panic" which is a more general history of the time and place - names and places are mentioned without enough context otherwise.
I also cut a star due to personal taste - like Casati, Berber self-destructed, though more extravagantly: Casati died poor; Berber died poor, of TB, after inhaling a swath of cocaine across Europe and seemingly using everyone in her path. MUST all wild women burn too soon? (No: Check out Simon Doonan's "Wacky Chicks").
This book had more history about Weimar Berlin and it's modern dance culture, which isn't a bad thing; I only take one star because it almost assumes you've also read the same author's "Voluptuous Panic" which is a more general history of the time and place - names and places are mentioned without enough context otherwise.
I also cut a star due to personal taste - like Casati, Berber self-destructed, though more extravagantly: Casati died poor; Berber died poor, of TB, after inhaling a swath of cocaine across Europe and seemingly using everyone in her path. MUST all wild women burn too soon? (No: Check out Simon Doonan's "Wacky Chicks").
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