In 1909, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti issued “The founding and manifesto of futurism", in the French newspaper Le Figaro. Confident in the triumph of modern technological developments and the dynamism of post–industrial urban life, Marinetti and other Futurists released a torrent of manifestos on subjects as varied as painting, cinema, music, architecture and theater, finding value in the flexibility and ease of producing print in simple structures to reach wider and diverse audiences. In this dance manifesto, Marinetti calls for dance to imitate machines and presents three Futurist dances inspired by "three mechanisms of war: shrapnel, the machine gun, and the airplane.”
Danse de l'aviateur, danse du shrapnell, danse de la mitrailleuse