1936. Brooklyn. A young Lee Krasner leaves home and starts to create a kind of art America has never seen before. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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It's winter, 1936 in New York.
A party is in full swing and everyone is having a good time time.
Drinking and dancing.
The cigarette smoke was so dense they could barely see each other.
The place is full of artists wearing patched up woolen suits and cheap sequin dresses, jiving as fast as they can just to keep warm.
This is Mary Gabriel, who wrote 9th Street Women.
Life outside on the streets was difficult because it was still the Depression.
Life inside their studios was difficult, but inside that dance hall they could let it all go.
They would buy bottles of booze, get together and have just a raucous good time.
In the middle of the crowd is a woman in her late 20s, Short Bob, net stockings, heels.
She's effortlessly dancing rings around everyone else.
Lee Krasner has got rhythm.
Dancing was one of the passions of her life, and she took it very seriously.
Lee knows she's turning heads, and not just because of her quick feet.