RT Book
T1 Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's performance of modernism
A2 Garelick, Rhonda K. 1962-
LA English
PP Princeton, N.J Woodstock, U.K
PB Princeton University Press
YR 2007
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/877166366
AB Loie Fuller was the most famous American in Europe throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rising from a small-time vaudeville career in the States, she attained international celebrity as a dancer, inventor, impresario, and one of the first women filmmakers in the world. Fuller befriended royalty and inspired artists such as Mallarmé, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rodin, Sarah Bernhardt, and Isadora Duncan. Today, though, she is remembered mainly as an untutored "pioneer" of modern dance and stage technology, the "electricity fairy" who created a sensation onstage whirling under colored spotlights. But in Rhonda Garelick's Electric Salome, Fuller finally receives her due as a major artist whose work helped lay a foundation for all modernist performance to come. The book demonstrates that Fuller was not a mere entertainer or precursor, but an artist of great psychological, emotional, and sexual expressiveness whose work illuminates the centrality of dance to modernism. Electric Salome places Fuller in the context of classical and modern ballet, Art Nouveau, Orientalism, surrealism, the birth of cinema, American modern dance, and European drama. It offers detailed close readings of texts and performances, situated within broader historical, cultural, and theoretical frameworks. Accessibly written, the book also recounts the human story of how an obscure, uneducated woman from the dustbowl of the American Midwest moved to Paris, became a star, and lived openly for decades as a lesbian.
OP 246
NO Originally published: 2007. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
NO Originally published: 2007
CN GV1785.F8
SN 978-1-4008-3277-4
SN 1-4008-3277-2
K1 Fuller, Loie 1862-1928 : Fuller, Loie 1862-1928
K1 Fuller, Loie : 1862-1928
K1 Fuller, Loie
K1 Dancers : United States
K1 Modern dance : United States
K1 Modern dance
K1 PERFORMING ARTS ; Dance ; Modern
K1 Dancers
K1 Modern Dance
K1 United States
K1 Electronic books