Guardiamo questi vecchi filmati
Let's look at these old movies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNZ4WCFJGPc
http://disinfo.com/2011/08/1896-film-loie-fullers-psychedelic-serpentine-dance/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZcbntA4bVY
Colei che danza è Loie Fuller, danzatrice americana famosissima a Parigi, a cavallo tra il XIX ed il XX secolo.
Inventò numerose danze ispirate dai fiori, dalle farfalle, dal fuoco, ma la più famosa di tutte fu la "danza Serpentina".
Ecco come la descrive un ammiratore
"Loie Fuller faceva volteggiare attorno a sé metri e metri di veli, cavaturaccioli, trottola, splendente nella luce colorata come un vaso iridato di Tiffany, fino a trasformarsi, con serpentine sempre più ardite, in un enorme ornamento, la cui metamorfosi, da uno slancio luminoso ad un improvviso
The dancer is Loie Fuller, famous American dancer in Paris, at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century.
She revolutionized the dance show, focusing it on a spectacular choreography where sounds and colors blended in bold figures she created, whirling wrapped in tunic and colored veils that did whirl around her body.
She invented many dances inspired by flowers, butterflies, by the fire, but the most famous of all was the "Serpentine Dance".
Here's how an admirer describes it
"Loie Fuller was circling around herself many meters of veils, corkscrew, spinning, shining in colored light like an iridescent Tiffany vessel, until she became, with increasingly daring serpentine , a huge ornament, whose metamorphosis, from one rush to a sudden bright
abandonment, until canceled in the throat of the curtain and darkness, appears in the memory as a symbol of floral style "(F. Ahlers Hestermann)
to know more
http://giusibatta.blogspot.it/2015/05/friday-may-8th-scorrono-i-giorni.html
http://giusibatta.blogspot.it/2015/05/tuesday-may-12nd-do-you-remember.html
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