Last night I managed to fulfill a long-held ambition by going to see a performance of the stirring revolutionary ballet, The Red Detachment of Women.
Here’s a photo, and you can see a string of others at this lecturer’s website from New York University. They give you a flavour of the thing.
To cognoscenti, what I have to say will be grandmothers sucking eggs. But there really is something extraordinary about art as heavily propagandistic as this.[Full Text]




