“Magically unreal”, “enchanting”, “being of light”: these are some of the epithets attributed to Loïe Fuller by the Symbolists. On a stage devoid of any decor, the American dancer amazed her contemporaries by dancing in swathes of shimmering material, thus creating a new kind of spectacle in which the body disappears behind a wall of color and light, creating pure suggestion.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
