Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley
The origins of the art of exotic dancing lie in English drama and Viennese opera: Oscar Wilde's 1893 play Salome, and Richard Strauss's 1905 opera based on it, brought onto the stage a female character who captured and dominated the audience with the raw power of her naked body. Her Dance of the Seven Veils shocked and fascinated, and Salome became a pop icon on both sides of the Atlantic. Toni Bentley explores how four influential women embraced the persona of the femme fatale and transformed the misogynist image of a dangerously sexual woman into a form of personal liberation. Toni Bentley danced with George Balanchine's New York City Ballet for ten years. Her books include Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal, Holding On to the Air, Costumes by Karinska, and The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir.
"No other historian has told the story of the femme fatale in nineteenth-century culture so well and so engaginglyBentley brings four memorable women to life - women who seized the mythic role of Salome and used it creatively and powerfully." Charles Rearick, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Toni Bentley is a former New York City Ballet dancer who is now an independent scholar and writer. Her previous books include Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal, Holding On to the Air (the autobiography of Suzanne Farrell), and Costumes by Karinska.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300090390 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300090390 |
| Title | Sisters of Salome |
| Author | Toni Bentley |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 2002-04-10 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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