Aug 2nd, 2008 by futurism
| Here you will find links to resources about Futurist Dance |
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Of Cyborg Technologies and Fascistized Mermaids: Giannina Censi’s Aerodanze in 1930s Italy
| An extended examination of Giannina Censi’s work by Anja Klöck. |
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Recollections from Giannina Censi
| A (rather mangled) Google translation of some first-hand recollections by Giannina Censi of her work with the Futurists. The site also contains some good images of Censi. |
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Loïe Fuller’s Influence on Futurist Dance
| Merwin, T. (1998) |
- Loïe Fuller and the Futurists: Two Views – Loïe Fuller’s Influence on F.T. Marinetti’s Futurist Dance (available via WebCT)
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“La Loïe” as Pre-Cinematic Performance
| ‘In this paper [Erin Brannigan] pursues the idea, introduced briefly in the opening chapters of Gilles Deleuze’s cinema books, that turn-of-the-century dance shares with cinema the role of manifesting a new understanding of motion particular to the 20th century. In his book, Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, Deleuze employs the theories of Henri Bergson to arrive at a relationship between Bergson’s new philosophy of movement, modern dance and the emerging art form of the cinema. Of the various art forms developing at the same time as Bergson’s new ideas about movement, Deleuze cites “dance, ballet and mime” as particularly relevant fields of innovation, where dancers were “abandoning figures and poses to release values which were not posed, not measured, which related movements to any-instant-whatever”. An analysis of the emerging art form of modern dance in the light of Bergson’s theories reveals a corresponding conceptualisation of movement in the work of turn-of-the-century dancers such as Loïe Fuller.’ |
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“La Loïe” on YouTube
| Several recreations of Loïe Fuller’s dances can be found on YouTube, including a hand-coloured film from 1899. To be treated with caution, but they give an idea of what her stage performances might have looked like. |
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Jody Sperling – Time, Lapse, Dance
Jody Sperling is a dancer, choreographer, and dance scholar based in New York City. Sperling has gained an international reputation as an expert on Loïe Fuller and as an interpreter of Fuller’s style of dancing. Her site contains a number of articles on Fuller, and some information about recreations of Fuller’s dances.
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