Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan's Contemporries

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Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan's Contemporries

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. Fuller , Loie ( 1862–1928 ) , America performer who began her career child temperance lecturer . At an early y she took a few dance lessons but we them up on account of difficulty . Aka some singing lessons she obtained a spel ing and singing part in a show . While this show she received a present of a kome scarf of very light silk . Playing with a scarf and admiring its lightness and see ing power she conceived the idea of 2 * ating a spectacular stage number *** sisting of inanipulation of a lengst light silk illuminated by variegated be She named the number The Saree Dance , although the dance iscell tained only a few movements , the man attraction being the floating silk De and Margaret West Kinney ( in thor mirable book The Dance ) say the ? its . 288 lowing about Miss Fuller and her Ser centine Dance : “ The success of the Ser pentine was not one of those victories ained after long experimenting for a per rect expression . It was instantaneous and complete ; a few weeks sufficed to take Loie Fuller a national figure . A period of tremendous popularity fol owed , popularity amounting to a fashion In Paris Miss Fuller had a sketch in which she , a solitary figure , stood on height at dawn , silhouetted against the ky ... The figure , on being touched by the rays ( of the rising sun ) , represented awakening by the fluttering ... of s hundred yards or so of drapery in audience mistook the intent of the effect , and greeted it as a dance of fire . The upward rush of the cloth , obviously , had suggested flame . " La Loie " lost not a moment in seeing the possibilities , nor an hour in setting to work on their de velopment . Stage electric lighting was new Electricians were enthusiastic over new problems ... the colours and move ment of flame were almost counter feited ... " La Danse de Feu became a : strong a hit as The Serpentine Dance Subsequently Miss Fuller developed a long list of similar numbers , which were all startling and agreeable to the eye . She danced at the Paris Universal Exposition 1900 ) and with her company toured in Europe and America , appearing at the Metropolitan Opera House ( 1910 ) . Her machinery and effects were a closely cuarded secret . She had many imitators , but not one of them ever approached the mooth performance of her act . Her auto biography , Quinze Ans de ma Vie , was published in France ( 1908 ) , with a pref ace by Anatole France . An English lan zuage edition of the book was published in London ( 1915 ) . For a detailed biog aphy and appreciation of Loie Fuller see Dance Index , Mar. , 1942 . 2

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