Electric Salome

[Dave Monroe]

Electric Salome:
Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism
Rhonda K. Garelick
Paper | 2009 | $24.95 / £14.95
Cloth | 2007 | $35.00 / £19.95
288 pp. | 6 x 9 | 44 halftones. 2 line illus.

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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 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.

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Introduction

http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i8519.pdf

Cf. ...

V. in Love

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/v/vinlove.html

La Jarretiere

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"Melanie's stage name can mean a number of things.  The primary
meaning is 'garter,' but it can also mean 'picketing rope' and,
according to Berressem, 'conductor-wire' ..." ([Kerry, Companion to
V.], p. 173)

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