Judge — May 13, 1922 — page 14: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page showcases an avant-garde dance performance titled "Flight Before the Storm." The black-and-white photograph depicts multiple dancers in flowing, diaphanous costumes posed dramatically across a rocky landscape. The figures appear to be engaged in interpretive or modern dance—a relatively new art form at the time this Judge magazine was published. The caption indicates this represents "studies in self-expression" from their "school of interpretive dancing," noted as "positively for one performance only," suggesting an experimental, unconventional theatrical event. The satire likely mocks the pretentiousness or obscurity of modern interpretive dance—a movement that avant-garde enthusiasts championed but mainstream audiences often found bewildering or ridiculous. Judge's satirical intent appears to be gently ridiculing this highbrow artistic trend through its breathless, serious presentation.