 Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's performance of modernism.
Author: Garelick, Rhonda K Published: 2007 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 USA, she attained international celebrity as a dancer, inventor, impresario, and one of the first women film-makers in the world. Today, though, she is remembered mainly as an untutored pioneer of modern dance and stage technology, who created a sensation on stage whirling under coloured spotlights. From Rhonda Garelick, however, Fuller finally receives her due as a major artist whose work helped lay a foundation for all modernist performances to come. |
