Anita Berber was pretty boss, and I've been obsessed with her for a few years. She was a German actress, prostitute, and expressionist dancer, who was probably one of the first real nude dancers. Androgynous and overtly sexual, Anita was often spotted half naked in a hotel lobby, sipping a dranky drank, with a pet monkey on her shoulder and a canister of cocaine. Wizard. She was also married to two gay men (at two separate times of course).
The people could never really figure out if they wanted to put her in the high art category, or cast her off as a crazy dancer. Her acts were often a mix of dancing in the nude combined with a macabre feel. She so embodies freedom of the body and spirit and straddled the fence of high and low art. I love the straddlers. Straddle on Straddlers. Enjoy a few pictures of her, which I also find quiet lovely.
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