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Loie Fuller
Loie Fuller , 1862-1928, American dancer and theatrical innovator, b. Fullersburg, Ill., as Mary Louise Fuller. She began her career as a child, performing in burlesque, vaudeville, the circus, plays, and other popular entertainments. Self-taught as a dancer, Fuller explored the use of voluminous... Read more |
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modern dance
modern dance serious theatrical dance forms that are distinct from both ballet and the show dancing of the musical comedy or variety stage. The Beginnings of Modern Dance Developed in the 20th cent., primarily in the United States and Germany, modern dance resembles modern art and music in being... Read more |
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Jody Watley
Jody Watley Singer, songwriter Became Soul Train Dancer Launched Solo Recording Career Renowned for Style Selected discography Sources “I know what I like and don |
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Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster (Alicia Christian Foster), 1962-, American actress, b. Los Angeles. A child model, she began acting in TV commercials at three, appeared on various TV shows, and made her screen debut in Disney's Napoleon and Samantha (1972). Her first important role was as the barely adolescent... Read more |
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Jo
Jo ♀, ♂ Usually a girl's name, a short form of Joanna, Joanne, Jody, or Josephine, sometimes used independently or in combination with other names, for example Nancy Jo and Jo Anne (see Joanne). Occasionally it is a boy's name, a variant spelling of Joe. Famous female bearers include... Read more |
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Jody Williams
Jody Williams 1950-, American social activist, b. Putney, Vt., grad. Univ. of Vermont (B.A., 1972), School for International Training, Brattleboro, Vt. (M.A., 1976), Johns Hopkins Univ. (M.A., 1984). After teaching English as a second language in Mexico, Britain, and the United States, she settled... Read more |
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Kris Kristofferson
KRISTOFFERSON, Kris 1936– (Kris Carson) PERSONAL Born June 22, 1936, in Brownsville, TX; son of Henry C. (a U.S. Air Force major general) and Mary Ann (maiden name, Ashbrook) Kristofferson; married Fran Beir, 1960 (divorced, 1969); married Rita Coolidge (a singer and composer),... Read more |
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Julius Lester
LESTER, Julius (Bernard) 1939- Personal Born January 27, 1939, in St. Louis, MO; son of W. D. (a minister) and Julia (Smith) Lester; married Joan Steinau (a researcher), 1962 (divorced, 1970); married Alida Carolyn Fechner, March 21, 1979 (divorced, 1993); married Milan Sabatini, August 17,... Read more |
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Falconer
Falconer, novel by John Cheever, published in 1977.Ezekiel Farragut, descended from a wealthy, aristocratic New England family that fell on hard times and has been reduced to operating a gas station on its Cape Cod estate, by the age of 48 has served overseas with the army in World War II, where he... Read more |
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First Contact
First Contact Over a century ago, the astronomer Percival Lowell thought that he had glimpsed artificial canals on Mars and the radio pioneer Nikola Tesla believed that he had intercepted a Martian radio broadcast. Later attempts to signal Mars by means of huge bonfires and... Read more |
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Loie Fuller
...or Isadora Duncan, there was Loie Fuller (1862-1928), the toast...world-renowned Fuller expert Jody Sperling, artistic director of...Duncan into her Parisian company, Loie Fuller and Her Muses, but she...Marcia Ewing Current, who wrote Loie Fuller: Goddess ... |
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Technology's ghosts: Loie Fuller & the Magic Lantern.(DANCE & TECHNOLOGY)
...motion-capture animation, there was Loie Fuller (1862-1928), a dancer who used...mirrors created an infinite recession of "Loie Fullers." She painted her costumes with...maybe you'll find Fuller's ghost. Jody Sperling is a dancer, choreographer... |
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On fire: Lingji Hon is one of sixty students who take creative movement with...
...little kid anymore." The hypnotic glow of fire has fascinated many other choreographers. One of the first modern dancers, Loie Fuller (1862-1928), made her famous Fire Dance in 1895. In it, she used marvelous lighting effects. In fact, Fuller... |
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Curtain up.(editorial)(technology and dance)(Editorial)
...of the various Cirque productions that use technology on a vast scale. And in "Technology's Ghosts," Jody Sperling, the expert on Loie Fuller, takes us back to the early 20th century when Fuller was pioneering the use of the magic lantern... |
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Don't miss round two.(NEW YORK NOTEBOOK)(Brief Article)
...Tania Perez-Salas (left) and Aditi Mangaldas. Plus the amazing shaman Vincent Mantsoe, the whirling Loie Fuller reconstructer Jody Sperling, and a rare visit from Joanna Haigood. For the classically minded, there's the Joffrey Ballet... |
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Reviews: Dance: Fitting homage as performers follow in legends' footsteps
...minutes than plenty of text-based theatre says in an hour. In between, New Yorker Jody Sperling, pictured top, dances her signature work inspired by Loie Fuller, the pioneering early 20th- century dancer who whirled around in billowing silk... |
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Concord Academy center is first-rate, barre none.
...audiences already knew," Colton said. "We're also presenting a concert by Jody Sperling (July 26, free admission), who will perform a modern dance created in 1891 by Loie Fuller. So we are showing the very beginning of modern dance and then out... |
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chat room
...view a clip of the documentary on our site. * Download a printable quiz on History subject Loie Fuller to share with your students. Then, watch a clip of Jody Sperling performing Fuller-inspired work. Follow us on Twitter! Dance Teacher is now... |
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TIME LAPSE DANCE PERFORMS SEPT. 23 AT LIED CENTER
...for Performing Arts when Jody Sperling's Time Lapse...2000 by choreographer Jody Sperling and fuses many...modern-dance pioneer Loie Fuller. Fuller was an...Her topic will be "Loie Fuller and Early Cinema...are so excited to have Jody ... |
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THE first thing to love about this Dance Base programme... [Derived headline]
...engagingly chatty, informative monologue, My Name Is Margaret Morris (HHH) . Elements of Loie Fuller - part of the Base Elements double bill (HHH) - sees Jody Sperling, in a re-creation of Fuller's vast winged costume There is something quite... |
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