Feet are too often the overburdened, ugly cousins of hands. We stand on them. We batter them against the ground. We encase them in tight leather or plastic. And yet they are capable of extraordinary skill and dexterity. And often beauty too, because they are a primeval expression and connection between music and the unconscious. First they might twitch a little, then tap along, and then spring into life into extraordinary movement in dance, so it is no wonder that there are so many songs about, or featuring, feet.
How big should feet be? For centuries, Chinese women were oppressed with the tradition of feet binding, because it was believed that smaller the were, the better a cruelty described most famously in Jung Chang's Wild Swans. But at the other end of the scale there are the famous size 11s of the glamorous Uma Thurman, here twitching into life out of paralysis in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill part 1, and connecting brain and feet in the most stylish and dramatic of ways.
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by Peter Kimpton via Electronic music | The Guardian
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