Rodin's Dancers: Art and Performance in Belle Époque Paris

Charting Auguste Rodin’s relationships with the dancers who shaped his signature style and his mythic persona.

Juliet Bellow traces Rodin’s interactions with dance makers and performers during his late career (1890—1912) through a series of interrelated case studies. His exchanges with Loïe Fuller, Vaslav Nijinsky, and members of the Cambodian Royal Ballet troupe were central to Rodin’s development of a modern sculptural aesthetic and the construction of his artistic celebrity. But this was...