《电气莎乐美》：洛伊·富勒的现代主义表演

洛伊·富勒是整个十九世纪末二十世纪初欧洲最著名的美国人。她从小在美国的杂耍生涯中成长起来，以舞蹈演员、发明家、导演和世界上第一批女性电影制作人的身份在国际上享有盛名。富勒与皇室交上了朋友，并受到了马勒梅、图卢兹·劳特雷克、罗丹、莎拉·伯恩哈特和伊莎多拉·邓肯等艺术家的启发。然而，如今人们对她的记忆主要是作为现代舞蹈和舞台技术的未受过教育的“先驱”，即在彩色聚光灯下在舞台上创造轰动的“电仙女”。但在朗达·加里克（Rhonda Garelick）的《电动莎乐美》（Electric Salome）中，富勒（Fuller）最终获得了她作为一名主要艺术家的应有地位，她的作品为未来所有现代主义表演奠定了基础。这本书表明，富勒不仅仅是一个艺人或先驱，而是一个具有伟大心理、情感和性表达能力的艺术家，他的作品阐明了舞蹈对现代主义的中心地位。
《电气莎乐美》在古典和现代芭蕾舞、新艺术、东方主义、超现实主义、电影的诞生、美国现代舞和欧洲戏剧的背景下更全面地展示了它。它在更广泛的历史、文化和理论框架内提供详细的文本和表演细读。这本书写得通俗易懂，还讲述了一个来自美国中西部贫民区的默默无闻、没有受过教育的女人如何搬到巴黎，成为明星，并作为女同性恋公开生活了几十年的人类故事。
Electric Salome: Loie Fuller’s Performance of Modernism
Loie Fuller was the most famous American in Europe throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rising from a small-time vaudeville career in the States, she attained international celebrity as a dancer, inventor, impresario, and one of the first women filmmakers in the world. Fuller befriended royalty and inspired artists such as Mallarmé, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rodin, Sarah Bernhardt, and Isadora Duncan. Today, though, she is remembered mainly as an untutored “pioneer” of modern dance and stage technology, the “electricity fairy” who created a sensation onstage whirling under colored spotlights. But in Rhonda Garelick’s Electric Salome, Fuller finally receives her due as a major artist whose work helped lay a foundation for all modernist performance to come. The book demonstrates that Fuller was not a mere entertainer or precursor, but an artist of great psychological, emotional, and sexual expressiveness whose work illuminates the centrality of dance to modernism.
Electric Salome places Fuller in the context of classical and modern ballet, Art Nouveau, Orientalism, surrealism, the birth of cinema, American modern dance, and European drama. It offers detailed close readings of texts and performances, situated within broader historical, cultural, and theoretical frameworks. Accessibly written, the book also recounts the human story of how an obscure, uneducated woman from the dustbowl of the American Midwest moved to Paris, became a star, and lived openly for decades as a lesbian.

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