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Dance
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Dance was inspired by Beethoven's Symphony
No. 7 in A major, Op.92 (1812). In 1923 Norman Lindsay
wrote to his son Jack Lindsay:
I am working again on the Dance plate. The musicians come out playing
with tremendous gusto, oblivious to every shape, but the background
danced into such thin outline that it disappeared and is now in process
of reappearing.
Later that same year Norman wrote again to Jack:
I have been thinking of the key of that drawing phase in the 7th
symphony, where all restraint, even the restraint of a dance measure,
is thrown to the devil; and all hearts and feet leap with ecstasy.
But how to get it in a picture. The 7th is not only the dance but
all that the dance means. I am trying to express not only the mad
whirl of figures dancing into an infinity of light, but that inevitable
interlacing of couples that leads them out of the dance room. |
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