This rare book (fully translated for the first time by Merrill Cole) has its origins around series of dance events performed by the couple in 1922 and consists in part of a number of Expressionist poems related to those evenings. However, the book is far more than that; and is really a 'gesamskunstwerk' ('total work of art') of drug suffused, morbid, decadent and homo-erotic Expressionist poetry, prose and imagary. It also includes essays, stage designs for projected works and a series of extraordinary photographs commissioned from Madame D'Ora (Dora Kalmus). The finished product should be seen as much as decadent literature as it is a landmark text of dance history and document of Weimar period excess.