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Rhonda K. Garelick is an American professor and author. She is currently a professor of English with a special joint appointment in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts. She is the founder and director of the Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium based in the Hixson-Lied College. [1] She is a scholar of performance, fashion, literature, visual arts, and cultural politics. [1]
She received her doctorate, masters, and bachelor's degrees in French and comparative literature from Yale University, doing graduate work at the University of Paris/VII afterwards. She has spent several years as a research strategy consultant to industries including but not limited to, fashion, television, and journalism. She has taught at Yale University, University of Colorado Boulder, Columbia University, Connecticut College, and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
She is the author of the novel Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History, published in 2014. She was the 2010 winner for publication design from the American Alliance of Museums for her book Fabulous Harlequin: ORLAN and the Patchwork Self, which was also named a 2011 Book of Critical Interest by Critical Inquiry. She also co-edited a special, double issue of Southwest Review , entitled "Performance as Style/Style as Performance", which was named a "Notable Special Issue" in The Best American Essays . Her pieces have been in the New York Times , [2] New York Newsday , the International Herald Tribune , and the Sydney Morning Herald , as well as several literary journals, critical anthologies, and museum catalogs.
She has received rewards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Whiting Foundation, The Getty Research Institute, The American Council of Learned Societies, The Dedalus Foundation, The American Association of University Women, and the French Government. In 2006 she received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
Garelick's literary piece, Electric Salome: Love Fuller's Performance of Modernism, which was published by Princeton University Press in 2007, was deemed a "vibrant and scholarly text" [3] [ according to whom? ] which examines Loie Fuller's contribution to the development of modernist dance and drama performance at the beginning of the twentieth century. Garelick examines the profession of Fuller, who was an untrained American dancer with a background in cabaret and burlesque. Love established a unique career in dance in Paris, which she retained for approximately three decades, from 1892 to her death in 1928. Garelick closely examined and published the extraordinary life and works of Fuller, including her lively life, and her ability to live openly as a lesbian in Paris. She showed persuasive skill in placing Fuller in a range of contemporary contextual standards. Garelick incorporated this by highlighting Fuller's immersion into the study of new, imaginative lighting designs and projections, which brought her into close contact with modern innovations, specifically in medical science, cinema, and the use of phosphorescent lighting. Loie quickly absorbed an electric range of innovations and used them in her stagecraft. To exemplify, Garelick writes "When [Thomas] Edison placed her hand inside the machine [a fluoroscope] she was thrilled to see her flesh turn translucent, to see her body's solidity dissolve. She imagined at once a theatrical application"(39). [4] Throughout the book, Garelick calls Fuller's actions "disingenuous" due to her statements and methods conflicting with her behaviors. Despite this, Fuller always vowed her carefully crafted stage creations were based on good fortune. She also continuously insisted her findings were accidental in nature. Fuller spent much time exploring human nature, sexual drives, the relationship between illusion and reality, and the transformation of the body through mechanized means.
Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, also known as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.
Loie Fuller, also known as Louie Fuller and Loïe Fuller, was an American dancer and a pioneer of modern dance and theatrical lighting techniques.
The Dance of the Seven Veils is the dance performed by Salome before King Herod Antipas in modern stage, literature, and visual arts. It is an elaboration on the New Testament story of the Feast of Herod and the execution of John the Baptist, which refers to Salome dancing before the king, but does not give the dance a name.
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel was a French fashion designer and businesswoman. The founder and namesake of the Chanel brand, she was credited in the post-World War I era with popularising a sporty, casual chic as the feminine standard of style. She is the only fashion designer listed on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. A prolific fashion creator, Chanel extended her influence beyond couture clothing into jewellery, handbags, and fragrance. Her signature scent, Chanel No. 5, has become an iconic product, and Chanel herself designed her famed interlocked-CC monogram, which has been in use since the 1920s.
The Greeks Had a Word for Them is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Lowell Sherman, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and released by United Artists. It stars Ina Claire, Joan Blondell, and Madge Evans and is based on the play The Greeks Had a Word for It by Zoe Akins. The studio originally wanted actress Jean Harlow for the lead after her success in Public Enemy (1931), but she was under contract to Howard Hughes, and he refused to loan her out. The film served as inspiration for films such as Three Blind Mice (1938), Moon Over Miami (1941), and How to Marry a Millionaire (1953). Ladies in Love (1936) also has a similar pattern and was produced like "Three Blind Mice" by Darryl F. Zanuck.
Sada Yacco or Sadayakko was a Japanese geisha, actress and dancer.
Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance which includes dance styles such as ballet, folk, ethnic, religious, and social dancing; and primarily arose out of Europe and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was considered to have been developed as a rejection of, or rebellion against, classical ballet, and also a way to express social concerns like socioeconomic and cultural factors.
Gloria Lund Main is an American economic historian who is a professor emeritus of history at University of Colorado Boulder. She authored two books about the Thirteen Colonies.
The serpentine dance is a form of dance that was popular throughout the United States and Europe in the 1890s, becoming a staple of stage shows and early film.
A skirt dance is a form of dance popular in Europe and the United States, particularly in burlesque and vaudeville theater of the 1890s, in which women dancers would manipulate long, layered skirts with their arms to create a motion of flowing fabric, often in a darkened theater with colored light projectors highlighting the patterns of their skirts. Skirts used in skirt dances reportedly were constructed from over 100 yards of fabric.
Théophile Bader, co-founder of Galeries Lafayette, was a French businessman and art collector whose family was persecuted during the Nazi occupation of France because of their Jewish heritage.
Lamentation is a modern dance solo choreographed by Martha Graham to Zoltán Kodály's 1910 Piano Piece, Op. 3, No. 2. One of Graham's signature works, it premiered on January 8, 1930 at Maxine Elliott's Theatre in New York City. The performance was part of a concert staged by the Dance Repertory Theatre, a group that included dancer/choreographers Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman and Helen Tamiris. Their stated goal was "to give annually a season of continuous dance programs which will be representative of the art of dance in America and will give native artists an outlet for their creative work."
Suzi Gablik was an American visual artist, author, art critic, and professor of art history and art criticism. She lived in Blacksburg, Virginia.
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Gabrielle Bloch, known professionally as Gab Sorère, was a French art promoter, set designer, mechanical innovator, filmmaker and choreographer of the Belle Époque. Collaborating with her partner, Loïe Fuller, to explore illusion through luminescence, she produced films and choreographies which moved performance from dancers being lighted to the abstract vision of lights dancing. When Fuller died, Sorère inherited the dance troupe and laboratory of her partner and strove to keep her legacy as a visual effects artist alive. She continued to produce innovative productions utilizing fluorescence and light into the 1950s.
Margherita "Rita" Sacchetto was a German dancer, film actress, and screenwriter.
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Zine Magubane is a scholar whose work focuses broadly on the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and post-colonial studies in the United States and Southern Africa. She has held professorial positions at various academic institutions in the United States and South Africa and has published several articles and books.
Linda Dalrymple Henderson is an American art historian, educator, and curator. Henderson is currently the David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on modern art, specifically twentieth-century American and European art.
Lynn Gamwell is an American nonfiction author and art curator known for her books on art history, the history of mathematics, the history of science, and their connections.
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