Electric Salome

Zusatztext "[T]he book's greatest appeal may lie in its evocation of Fuller's technical inventiveness, her altogether startling genius for making the space of theater new." ---Douglas Mao, Common Knowledge Informationen zum Autor 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-Siècle (Princeton). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Rising from a small-time vaudeville career in the States, Loie Fuller attained international celebrity as a dancer, inventor, and one of the first women filmmakers in the world. This book demonstrates that Fuller was an artist of great psychological, emotional, and sexual expressiveness whose work illuminates the centrality of dance to modernism. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Chapter One: The Evolution of Fuller's Performance Aesthetic 19 Early Years: Awareness and Unconsciousness 20 The Evolution of a European Modernist 32 Chapter Two: 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 Three: 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 Copp?lia and the Romantic Ballet Couple 144 Ambivalent Ballet: Fuller's Figurative and Literal Performance of Disavowal 150 A Balletic Dream of Modernism 153 Chapter Four: 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 Erotic 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 1...

Autorentext
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-Siècle (Princeton).

Klappentext
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.

Zusammenfassung
Rising from a small-time vaudeville career in the States, Loie Fuller attained international celebrity as a dancer, inventor, and one of the first women filmmakers in the world. This book demonstrates that Fuller was an artist of great psychological, emotional, and sexual expressiveness whose work illuminates the centrality of dance to modernism.

Inhalt
List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Chapter One: The Evolution of Fuller's Performance Aesthetic 19 Early Years: Awareness and Unconsciousness 20 The Evolution of a European Modernist 32 Chapter Two: 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 Three: 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 Four: 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 Erotic 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 Five: 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 Selected Bibliography 231 Index 241

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