Electric Salome
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Art Nouveau
Author_Rhonda K. Garelick
Ballet
Ballet dancer
Ballet Fantastique
Ballets Russes
Boris Kochno
Bunraku
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Chapter Two (play)
Charles Didelot
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Coppelia
Corps de ballet
Costume
Dance
Danseuse (Csaky)
David Belasco
Denishawn school
Dion Boucicault
Edwin Denby (poet)
Emma Livry
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Experimental theatre
Fairy tale
Gaiety Girls
George Balanchine
Giselle
Grand Guignol
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Isadora
Isadora Duncan
Isadorables
Jane Avril
Jerome Robbins
John Luther Long
Jules Perrot
La mer (Debussy)
La Sylphide
Le Figaro
Les biches
Letty Lind
Lincoln Kirstein
Loie Fuller
Lynn Garafola
Martha Graham
Martin Esslin
Melodrama
Miss Julie
Modern dance
Narcissism
Nautch
Orientalism
Parody
Paul Poiret
Polonius
Postmodern dance
Revenge tragedy
Richard Buckle
Romantic ballet
Rosita Mauri
Ruth St. Denis
Sergei Diaghilev
Skirt dance
Sonia Delaunay
Stagecraft
The Geisha
The Rothschilds (musical)
Tiller Girls
Tristan Tzara
Vaudeville
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Product details
- ISBN 9780691141091
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 146 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2009
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 Mallarme, 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.
Rhonda K. Garelick is professor in the department of English and at the Hixson-Lied School of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of "Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin-de-Siecle" (Princeton).
