... violence as an ethical and regenerative force in itself and as the key to national renewal and unity"43. While both of these notions combine in the 1909 Foundation Manifesto's emphasis on mechanisation and "the beauty of speed"44, the first theatrical example of this Futurist aesthetic was Giacomo Balla's Macchina Tipografica ('Printing press') in 1914, in which the dancers' bodies were used to ... detailed by Enns and Trower: Futurists theatricalised instead the unconstrained release of energy for chaotic effects... in which idealisations of vibratory energy are reconfigured in light o...

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