Despite the recovery of ballet from its sterility in the late 19th century, other dancers questioned the validity of an art form so inescapably bound to tradition by its relatively limited vocabulary. They wished to change radically the culture concept of expressive stage dancing. In a period of women’s emancipation, women stepped to the front as propagandists for the new dance and toppled the conventions of the academic dance. They advocated a dance that arose from the dancer’s innermost impulses to express himself or herself in movement. They took their cues from music or such other sources as ancient Greek ...(100 of 11874 words)