Loie fuller's art of music and light
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11211091 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sally R Sommer (School of Visual Arts, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 389-401 |
| Publication date | 1980-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dance Chronicle (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0147-2526 • E-ISSN: 1532-4257 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01472528008568817 |
| OpenAlex | W1982275824 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
Loie Fuller's name is usually associated with light: The Fairy of Light, The Magic Princess of Pearly Tints, The Painter with Light. Yet it is almost as if the brilliance of her illuminations eclipsed the rest of her career, for there is a tendency among dance historians to view Fuller simply as a rather pudgy solo dancer who predated Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis and left no substantial legacy of theory or technique to modern dance beyond her experiments with light. She is frequently said to have had poor taste in music. Among such misperceptions there is one truth: she was, in fact, pudgy. An overnight sensation in Paris in 1892, she was hailed as the creator of a new dance art. Her ideas about modernism in dance, stagecraft, music, and scenic design influenced her contemporaries and shaped visions of the future, She brought before the general public an extraordinary moder dance and it was she who began the migration of American modern dancers to Paris, where they sought the critical and public recognition denied them at home. She wrote extensively about herself and her ideas. Unfortunately, her writings are uneven-ranging from the elegant to the ridiculous-and the hundreds of articles written about her are scattered all over Europe and America. In discussing herself, she could be as flexible and shifting as the silks that surrounded her when she danced. In the interest of good press, she adapted her legends to the
Art · Art history · Visual arts · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Theater, Performance, and Music History
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2021 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |