Loie Fuller
Loie Fuller, born Marie Louise Fuller ( born January 22, 1862 in Fuller Castle, Illinois; † January 2, 1928 in Paris) was an American dancer, snake dancer and inventor. She was a pioneer of modern dance and the play of light on the stage.
Biography
Before she began her career as a dancer and choreographer, she worked from 1878 to 1891 as an actress and singer in numerous burlesques, farces and operettas with, inter alia, in the Nat Goodwin productions Little Sheppard, Turned Up ( 1886) and The Big Pony Gentlemanly of The Savage (1887 ). In Alfred Thompson's The Arabian Nights she played the role of Aladdin. 1882/83 they played in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show banjo.
As a snake dancer, she first emerged in Rud Aronson's Casino Company. Her dance was initially seen as a divertissement in Act II of Edmond Audrans operetta Uncle Celestine.
After performances in Boston and Brooklyn production came on February 15, 1892 to New York to the Casino Theatre. On the advice of the conductors Hugo Sohmers she decided to go to Paris. Previously, she accepted an engagement at the Berlin Conservatory. Only in Paris she managed the decisive breakthrough. On 5 December 1892 was at the Folies Bergère with the dances La Serpentine, La Violette, Le Papillon and XXXX (which she later called La Danse Blanche ) her sensational debut. She stepped into the " Folies Bergere " on until 1899.
In 1893 she settled her costume and " Stage devices for generating illusion effects " in Paris and London patented. With their productions enthusiastic and inspired her many artists, including Will Bradley, Jules Chéret, Maurice Denis, Thomas Theodor Heine, Auguste Rodin, Stéphane Mallarmé, James McNeill Whistler, and Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec, which they immortalized in their art works. She worked first with colored light projections and electric light.
Pierné Gabriel wrote the music for 1895 Fuller interpretation of Salome, which premiered on March 4, 1895 in the Comédie Parisienne as lyrical Pantomime by Charles H. Meltzer and Armand Silvestre - opera of the same consummate Richard Strauss only about ten years later. In the same year the dances La Nuit, Le Firmament, Le Lys du Bil and Le Feu, which she introduced in 1896 during a tour of America in the Music Hall of Serge Koster and Bial Albert emerged.
Other tours have taken them to southern Europe and South America. The architect Henri Sauvage erected at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1900 for a fuller theater pavilion. As a promoter of Isadora Duncan, Maud Allan, Sada Yacco and Hanako, she organized numerous touring productions.
From 1902, she performed with a group of young dancers. In March 1903 she exhibited at the National Arts Club along with her private collection of works by Auguste Rodin. The following year, she created her Radium Dance with fluorescent effects. The music for Fuller's second - Salomé directed by Robert d' Humières La Tragédie de Salomé was from Florent Schmitt. The premiere took place at the Théâtre des Arts on November 9, 1907.
1908 published her autobiography Quinze ans de ma vie (French 15 years of my life ). As a result, they created for their company of numerous ballets including on Mozart's Le Petits Riens, Debussy's Nocturnes and Stravinsky's Feu d'artifice. Le Lys de la vie was created from a tale by Carmen Sylva ( stage name of Queen Marie of Romania), the Loïe Fuller also filmed. In addition, she worked with at the movies Visions des rêves (French visions of dreams ) and Coppelius and the Sandman; the latter, however, remained unfinished.
At the age of nearly 66 years Loïe Fuller died on January 2, 1928 in Paris.
If you consider that they had never experienced a dance training or similar, their contribution to the stage reform is all the more remarkable. For this purpose, it provided also with their inventions a great contribution to the stage in the early 20th century. Due to their abstract dance it paved the Modern Dance your way.
Works
- Ma vie et la danse. Autobiography. L' oeil d'or, Paris, 2002, ISBN 2-913661-04-1.