DW DocFilm July 13, 2024
Pariset never seen anything like it it wasnt ballet or burlesque and it wasnt tribal dance either it was the spirit of an era. The spirit of laughter desire and freedom that took the french capital by storm in the 1920 s. Josephine baker dazzled white audiences with her uninhibited performances. But behind her exuberance lay troubled memories of a childhood marked by poverty and abuse. The searing sting of segregation and entrenched racism on the other side of the atlantic i i i i. I. I i i it would take 40 years until she felt this burden lifted. I gone with the feathers the sequins and glitt...