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Additional authors

1. Sommer, Sally R.
2. Kirby, Michael, 1931-1997.
3. Ipiotis, Celia.
4. Kogan, Ellen
5. Becker, Frances.
6. Xoregos, Shela
7. Bush, Jeffrey C.
8. ARC Videodance (Firm)

Description

1. 1 videocassette (U-matic, NTSC) (29 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequence; 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Historians Sally Sommer and Michael Kirby discuss the contributions of Loie Fuller and the Futurists to stage lighting and design. Sommer recounts Fuller's innovations, among them underlighting, the manipulation of fabrics, the use of aniline dyes and phosphorescence, and describes the technology she used in her Fire dance. A present-day tribute to Fuller, Shela Xoregos' La Loie, is performed by Ellen Kogan. A hand-tinted b&w film features Annabelle Moore, an imitator of Fuller. Kirby discusses the theories of Filippo Marinetti, particularly those expressed in his Futurist manifesto on dance, and describes the achievements of Hubert von Herkomer, Enrico Prampolini, and Giacomo Balla, with special emphasis on the latter's Fireworks, created for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1917, and Printing press, his 1914 audition piece. In Esoterica balletica, Frances Becker presents satirical brief biographies of Fuller and Isadora Duncan.

Series statement

1. Eye on dance ; 220

Subject

1. Stage lighting
2. Wit and humor
3. Television > Esoterica balletica
4. Prampolini, Enrico, 1894-1956
5. Duncan, Isadora, 1877-1927
6. Theaters > Stage-setting and scenery
7. Performance art
8. Costume design
9. Marinetti, F. T., 1876-1944
10. Balla, Giacomo, 1871-1958
11. Futurism (Art)
12. Fuller, Loie, 1862-1928
13. Television > Visual urge
14. Set designers
15. Fireworks [1917] (Choreographic work)
16. Fire dance (Choreographic work : Fuller)
17. Art and dance
18. Television > Eye on dance
19. Futurist dance
20. Herkomer, Hubert von, Sir, 1849-1914

Call number

1. *MGZIC 9-3012

Note

1. Produced by ARC Videodance as part of the television series Eye on dance. Recorded on March 23, 1987 at the studios of WNYC, New York. Telecast on April 3, 1987. Producers: Celia Ipiotis and Jeff Bush. Video director: Richard Sheridan. Program director: Celia Ipiotis. Technical director: Jeff Bush. Host: Celia Ipiotis.

Title

1. Visual urge: Scenic innovations [videorecording]

Imprint

1. 1987.

Series

1. Eye on dance ; 220

Local subject

1. Television. Visual urge.

Local subject

1. Television. Eye on dance.

Local subject

1. Television. Esoterica balletica.

Local subject

1. Futurist dance.

Added author

1. Sommer, Sally R. ve
2. Kirby, Michael, 1931-1997. Interviewee
3. Ipiotis, Celia. Host. Producer. Director
4. Kogan, Ellen, dancer.
5. Becker, Frances. Speaker
6. Xoregos, Shela, choreographer.
7. Bush, Jeffrey C. Producer
8. ARC Videodance (Firm)

Research call number

1. *MGZIC 9-3012