Criticisms
John Martin, a famous white dance critic during the early to mid-1900s, criticized Beatty’s dance style as too balletic. During this particular time period in which there was much racism and stereotyping, ballet was thought of as a “high art” that was reserved for white dancing bodies only. Other critics such as Margaret Lloyd praised Beatty's technique in her work The Borzoi Book of Modern Dance. Lloyd wrote that she found his leaps “phenomenal, a sort of universal wish fulfillment to navigate the air”.
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