Review and Comments about the Fire Dance's Choreographer--- Loie Fuller

There are a lot of reviews and comments about Loie Fuller’s dances.

Her experiments in stage lighting which her influenced deeper than in choreography, included the use of lights, phosphorescent materials and silhouette techniques. After Fuller, there were a lot of dancers using light in their dances such as Twyla Thrap, Alwin Nikolais and Bill Jones.

One observer wrote, “One feels subtly transported into the strangest regions of the dream . . . in these astonishing apparitions, something satanic and demonic, but of a gentle Satanism, of a poetic and suggestive demonality, which sets one on the starry and luminous path of hashishian dreams . . . 

(F. de Ménil, Histoire de la Danse à travers les Âges, Paris, 1904, pp. 340-341).

This comment mainly talks about Fuller’s dances which combined lights and movements together to create “a dream” for all the audiences.

http://modernism.research.yale.edu/wiki/index.php/Loie_Fuller

According to Garelick, Fuller “managed to create . . . art with an uncanny power to illuminate not the disjunctions between genres, but the fluid connections between them” (200).

(Electric Salome: Loie Fuller’s Performance of Modernism. By Rhonda Garelick. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 246 pp. )

Fuller’s dances create connections between different genres. I think these connections are between the modern dances and ballets, the dramas and lights.
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8519.html

However, in 1892, when Fuller stripped the stage bare and draped it with black chenille curtains, using only tinted lights and fabric as her scenic decor, she realized the most advanced theories of the two major scenographers of the twentieth century, Adolphe Appia and Gordon Craig years before they put them into practice.

(Sommer, Sally. “The Soul of Art Nouveau”. The Women's Review of Books 15.2 (1997): 18–19. Web)

The writer emphasizes Loie Fuller's contributions to the Theatre. Loie Fuller is the first person who used scenographer on stage. Scenographer is a high technic which is used by theatre a lot, now.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/4022880