Dance Note.

This article discusses the place of humor in modern dance. Tac used the gentle yeast of humor as leavening and got more than one rise out of audience. It proved that the modern dance can be a lively art and that the formal gesture of rise and revolt is not necessary to bring dance to the masses. Agnes de Mille and Sybil Shearer led the laughter in a devastating take-off of the pain-loving school of the modern dance. The ballets "The Curse of the Silk Chemise" and "Picket-Line Priscilla" were as close as the show got to social comment. Lotte Goslar's tragi-comic "Little Heap of Money" was clowning of the highest order where pain and laughter are etched into identical grooves.