Across
- 2. The mixing of genres or tones — central to American musical theatre.
- 4. A style using parody, sensuality, and exaggerated low comedy to mock high culture.
- 9. A blend of contradictory qualities — funny and eerie, beautiful and distorted.
- 10. Describing Berkeley’s signature visual effect where bodies form constantly shifting patterns and shapes.
- 11. A major early sound film star whose emotional performances were built on blackface imagery.
Down
- 1. The comic performer who travels between cultures, shifting identity through mimicry and disguise - described by Constance Rourke.
- 3. A choreographer who turned dancers into geometric formations using overhead camera shots.
- 5. Gilbert Seldes’s term for the popular, energetic, democratic arts of modern America.
- 6. A mask-like makeup used to imitate and distort Black identity on stage.
- 7. A world of inversion where norms collapse and chaotic laughter rules. Typical for Mikhail Bakhtin's theory.
- 8. A choreographer known for angular, puppet-like, off-balance movement that creates a modern grotesque style.