Traces of Light: Absence and Presence in the Work of Loie Fuller.(Book review) From: Dance Magazine | Date: February 1, 2008| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2008 Dance Magazine, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Traces of Light: Absence and Presence in the Work of Loie Fuller

Ann Cooper Albright. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2007. 229 pages. Illustrated. $75. Paper. $27.95.

The Returns of Alwin Nikolais: Bodies, Boundaries, and the Dance Canon

Edited by Claudia Gitelman and Randy Martin. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2007. 312 pages. Illustrated. $75. Paper. $27.95.

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Loie Fuller was born in 1862, a time when the new miracles of electricity and luminous chemicals, plus the play of light not only on her but beneath ...

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