Female Performance Practice on the Fin-de-Siecle Popular Stage of London and Paris: Experiment and Advertisement - Rilegato

Hindson, Catherine

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ISBN 10: 0719074851 ISBN 13: 9780719074851

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2007

Riassunto

This study focuses on seven women who used the fin-de-siècle’s popular stage as a space to develop their experimental performance practices: acts that won them international fame and critical acclaim. The diverse entertainment careers of Maud Allan (1873-1956), Jane Avril (1868-1943), Loïe Fuller (1868-1926), Sylvia Grey (1866-1958), Yvette Guilbert (1867-1944), Letty Lind (1862-1923) and Cissie (Cecilia) Loftus (1876-1943) encompassed song, dance, impersonation and acting. In accounts, reviews, autobiographical writings, interviews and other cultural products associated with them it is clear that individual female celebrities understood their work as creative, professional and original performance practice. The absence of their creative work from studies of performance history reveals much about hierarchical approaches to cultural environments, gender and physical, non-scripted performances that demands to be interrogated.

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Catherine Hindson is Lecturer in Performance Studies at the University of Bristol


Catherine Hindson is Lecturer in Performance Studies at the University of Bristol

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0719074851
• ISBN 13: 9780719074851
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 227
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile