A Leap Across the Abyss of Eras: How Barefoot Dancer Nasvytytė Returned to Lithuanian History

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Most of us have heard of interwar bohemia and the Kaunas Opera Ballet, but there has been a gaping white spot in the history of Lithuanian modern dance for a long time. Historian Emilija Tumė decided to fill it. Her debut book “Nomad's Dance” is not a dry biography, but a dramatic story about a woman who dared to step on stage barefoot and began to change dance culture with her movements, according to a press release from the publishing house “T…