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Informationen zum Autor Catherine Hindson is Lecturer in Performance Studies at the University of Bristol Klappentext This book focuses on seven celebrity performers working between the mid 1880s and 1910. Maud Allan, Jane Avril, Loïe Fuller, Sylvia Grey, Yvette Guilbert, Letty Lind and Cissie Loftus achieved international fame, whilst simultaneously creating new and innovative performances on the popular stage. Zusammenfassung This book focuses on seven celebrity performers working between the mid 1880s and 1910. Maud Allan, Jane Avril, Loïe Fuller, Sylvia Grey, Yvette Guilbert, Letty Lind and Cissie Loftus achieved international fame, whilst simultaneously creating new and innovative performances on the popular stage. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionThe terrain: 1. The theatre of the city: urbanisation, performance and spectatorship in fin-de-siècle London and Paris2. 'All the noblest arts ... expressed in the measured movements of a perfectly shaped body': embodiment and spectacular performances of genderSpaces: 3. Epidemics of enchanting creatures: Loïe Fuller and the Gaiety Theatre, London4. Madness, dancing and the dancer: Jane Avril and the Salpêtrière hospital, ParisImage: 5. 'They are wise who advertise, in every generation': image and the female celebrity 6. The art of imitation: staging the cult of celebrity Intersections:7. Moving away from the muse: Art Nouveau, Naturalist and Symbolist practices on the popular stage 8. Avant-Garde Salomania: 'the most famous dancing girl in history?'AfterwordBibliography
