The ballet dancers in a double shot in "Salome."

"The cocktail of luxury, incest, decapitation, and necrophile of Wilde's play had everything to scandalize and attract eager audience by new feelings in the beginning of 20th century. Who didn't find enough horrors in the facts that were unfolded on the stage could nevertheless be shocked with the agressive bitonality of the musical idiom of Strauss." (Perpetuo)