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Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism

Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism

Garelick, Rhonda K.

Paperback

Entertainment & Performing ArtsBiographies GeneralDance

ISBN10: 0691141096
ISBN13: 9780691141091
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Feb 1 2009
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

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.


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