[AUDIO: Lindy Hop music]
NARRATOR
Andy Warhol made this Dance Diagram in 1962, during a revival of 1920s and 30s dances like the Charleston and The Lindy Hop. Appropriated from an instructional diagram published by the Dance Society in 1956, Warhol projected the image onto canvas, traced it with pencil, then painted it using a milk-based paint called casein.
He made this right before he began to use the silk-screen technique and he made every effort to make sure the result didn’t look hand-painted, but rather, machine-precise.
Joanne Heyler.
JOANNE HEYLER
You could interpret it as a very wry comment on the dance he was attempting to begin with the art world. You could interpret it as simply one of the many ways, over the '60s, that Warhol would incorporate commercial imagery and bring that into the realm of fine art.
NARRATOR
The work is shown here on the floor just as it was when it debuted in a Philadelphia gallery.