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Loïe Fuller

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2021

Sally R. Sommer
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Loïe Fuller's contributions to the theory and practice of theatre and dance are numerous, yet few dancers and even fewer theatre people know of her work. Most dance and theatre historians, if they mention her at all, only devote a cursory paragraph to her achievements. As is often the case, repeated omission is gradually solidified into misinformation. Other people have often been credited with her innovations.

Between 1865 and 1891, Fuller had a rather successful career as actress, manager, and sometime. playwright. After 1892, she influenced (and was influenced by) Art Nouveau, Symbolism, and Impressionism. She was written about, painted, and sculpted by most of the important artists in Paris at the turn of the century. A theatre was even built for her. And she set up and managed the initial European tours of Isadora Duncan, Maude Allen, and two Japanese acting companies. All the while, she kept on writing plays.

Type
Historial Section
Information
The Drama Review , Volume 19 , Issue 1: Post-Modern Dance Issue , March 1975 , pp. 53 - 67
Copyright
Copyright © 1975 The Drama Review

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Footnotes

The title photograph is of Loïe Fuller, experimenting with costume design and butterfly image. All photographs with this article courtesy Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts.

References

The author would like to thank the Uncoln Center Library for the Peiforming Arts (the Theater Collection for the photographs, the staff of the Dance Collection for their help) and the Bibliotheque de L'Arenesal, Paris.

A Loie Fuller exhibition, slated for showing in Europe and the United States in 1976 is being organized by Margaret H. Harris of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the California Palace of Legion of Honor, and the Muse des Arts Decoratifs, Paris.