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Electric Salome : Loie Fuller's performance of modernism / Rhonda K. Garelick.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garelick, Rhonda K., 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fuller, Loie, 1862-1928.
- Fuller, Loie.
- Dancers--United States--Biography.
- Dancers.
- United States.
- Modern dance.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 246 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Evolution of Fuller's Performance Aesthetic 19
- Early Years: Awareness and Unconsciousness 20
- The Evolution of a European Modernist 32
- Chapter 2 Electric Salome: Loie Fuller at the World's Fair of 1900 63
- A Handsome Savage 63
- The World's Fair of 1900 68
- Queen of the Fair 78
- Mutable Geography and Adopted Nationality 86
- Salome 90
- Fuller's Japanese Costars at the Fair 103
- A Yankee Salome on the Rue de Paris 106
- The New Colonial Power: The United States at the World's Fair 111
- A Vision of America to Come 114
- Chapter 3 Fuller and the Romantic Ballet 118
- Yankees Don't Do Ballet 118
- Romantic Ballet: Sprites, Swans, and Windup Toys 125
- Fuller: The Accidental Sylph 130
- Technical Developments 134
- Fuller, Hoffmann, and the Technologized Body 139
- Coppelia and the Romantic Ballet Couple 144
- Ambivalent Ballet: Fuller's Figurative and Literal Performance of Disavowal 150
- A Balletic Dream of Modernism 153
- Chapter 4 Scarring the Air: Loie Fuller's Bodily Moderism 156
- Fuller's Invisibility: Modernist Physicality, Sex, and Cultural Legacy 156
- Fleur du Sang: Fuller's Violent and Erotic Physicality 162
- The Erocic Fuller 166
- The Scandalous Ballets Loie Fuller 171
- Instinct, Nature, and Versions of Interiority 176
- The Mechanics of the Group 179
- The Triumph of La Mer 182
- Martha Graham's Lamentation 190
- Fuller in a New Light 194
- The Physical Analogue of the Psychological 196
- Chapter 5 Of Veils and Onion Skins: Fuller and Modern European Drama 200
- Radical Mechanicity 200
- Character and Identity 203
- Tristan Tzara's Mouchoir de Nuages 214
- Tzara's Hamlet 218
- Reading the Clouds: Shakespeare, Freud, and Fuller 220
- Afterword: Thoughts on Contemporary Traces of Fuller 224.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-240) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691017082
- 0691017085
- OCLC:
- 76416489
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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