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Female Performance Practice on the Fin-De-SieCle Popular Stages of London and Paris

Experiment and Advertisement. Women, Theatre and Performance

By (author) Catherine Hindson
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Manchester University Press, Manchester, United Kingdom
Published: 31st Mar 2013
Dimensions: w 140mm h 216mm d 13mm
Weight: 284g
ISBN-10: 0719090148
ISBN-13: 9780719090141
Barcode No: 9780719090141
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This study focuses on seven women who used the fin-de-siecle'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), Loie 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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