I assume you've read the story about his wanting to create a monster that didn't move like a human being, and getting part of the idea from watching a troupe of dancers from Georgia (the Asian country, not the US state).
A good many years ago, I actually had the opportunity to take a short (VERY short) class in that style of dancing. The women wear dresses with very stiff, bell-like skirts, and they really do glide across the floor as if they're floating. It turns out to require the most insane amount of fine muscle control, years of practice and reallly good leg muscles (like most forms of dance).
When that show was made, the Nuclear Menace was very much in the forefront of people's minds, so part of the attitude underneath the Daleks was the notion of what would be left if radiation shriveled away all our humanity. Hence, withered mutant creatures in ominous machines. And of course, the Cold War was lurking underneath the script, with the idea that rival superpowers might destroy each other and everyone else, leaving only dehumanised survivors and a blasted world.
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A good many years ago, I actually had the opportunity to take a short (VERY short) class in that style of dancing. The women wear dresses with very stiff, bell-like skirts, and they really do glide across the floor as if they're floating. It turns out to require the most insane amount of fine muscle control, years of practice and reallly good leg muscles (like most forms of dance).
When that show was made, the Nuclear Menace was very much in the forefront of people's minds, so part of the attitude underneath the Daleks was the notion of what would be left if radiation shriveled away all our humanity. Hence, withered mutant creatures in ominous machines. And of course, the Cold War was lurking underneath the script, with the idea that rival superpowers might destroy each other and everyone else, leaving only dehumanised survivors and a blasted world.