Proms, parties and gender politics: amazing photos from American dancefloors – and what they tell us about a changing nation

From George Balanchine to the Rockettes, the US magazine regularly ran lavish photo spreads dedicated to dance, with the myriad ways people moved their bodies holding up a mirror to the shifting times Life magazine launched in 1936. Its aim: to show the US the world, in…

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