Altered Beast

L' apres - midi d' un Faune was revolutionary for it's time-- more on this in a later post-- At its 1912 Paris premier it caused quite the scandal. In the newspaper Le Figaro editor Gaston Calmette wrote:

"We have had a faun, incontinent, with vile movements of erotic bestiality and gestures of heavy shamelessness." To him Nijinsky's dance was "the too-expressive pantomime of the body of an ill-made beast, hideous, from the front, and even more hideous in profile."

"...the body of an ill-made beast, hideous, from the front, and even more hideous in profile."

Looks pretty good to me.

-Gregg