On Stage Alone University Press of Florida Florida A&M University, Tallahassee Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers Florida International University, Miami Florida State University, Tallahassee New College of Florida, Sarasota University of Central Florida, Orlando University of Florida, Gainesville University of North Florida, Jacksonville University of South Florida, Tampa University of West Florida, Pensacola University Press of Florida Gainesville/Tallahassee/Tampa/Boca Raton Pensacola/Orlando/Miami/Jacksonville/Ft. Myers/Sarasota O N S TAG E A L O N E SOLOISTS AND THE MODERN DANCE CANON Edited by Claudia Gitelman and Barbara Palfy Copyright 2012 by Claudia Gitelman and Barbara Palfy Printed in the United States of America on Glatfelter Natures Book, a paper certified under the standards of the Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC). It is a recycled stock that contains 30 percent post-consumer waste and is acid-free. This book may be available in an electronic edition. All rights reserved 17 16 15 14 13 12 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data On stage alone : soloists and the modern dance canon / edited by Claudia Gitelman and Barbara Palfy. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8130-4025-7 (alk. paper) 1. Dancers. 2. Dancing—Psychological aspects. 3. Modern dance. I. Gitelman, Claudia. II. Palfy, Barbara. gv1594.o53 2012 792.8—dc23 2012001071 University Press of Florida 15 Northwest 15th Street Gainesville, FL 32611-2079 http://www.upf.com Contents List of Illustrations vii Introduction 1 Claudia Gitelman ONE Michio Ito’s Shadow: Searching for the Transnational in Solo Dance 7 Carrie J. Preston TWO Alone into the World: Reflections on Solos from 1919 by Vaslav Nijinsky and Mary Wigman 31 Ramsay Burt THREE The Solo That Isn’t a Solo: Ann Carlson’s Dances with Animals 55 Janice Ross FOUR Aesthetics of Early Modernist Solo Dance in Central Europe 73 Karl Toepfer FIVE Exotica and Ethereality: The Solo Art of Maud Allan 119 Julie Malnig SIX Modernity and Nationalism in Solo Dance in Brazil: The Bailado of Eros Volúsia and the Performance of Luiz de Abreu 141 Sandra Meyer SEVEN Strange Heroes 163 Deborah Jowitt EIGHT Anna Huber: A Conceptual Moment in Switzerland 187 Renée E. D’Aoust List of Contributors 203 Index 205 Illustrations 1.1 Michio Ito in Japanese costume, 1915 13 3.1 Ann Carlson and kitten in Animals 61 3.2 Ann Carlson with her dairy cow partner in Madame 710 69 3.3 Ann Carlson in a face-to-face moment with Madame 710 69 4.1 Mata Hari, ca. 1905 75 4.2 Olga Desmond and Adolf Salge as “living statues” inConquered, 1908 79 4.3 Olga Desmond in Schwertertanz (Sword Dance), 1910 81 4.4 Anna Pavlova in the opening of The Swan, Berlin, 1908 87 4.5 Gertrud Leistikow in a dance from Adonisfeier, 1911 91 4.6 Lavinia Schulz in the fantastic costume for her Bibo, Hamburg, 1924 98 4.7 Edith von Schrenck, 1925 101 4.8 Niddy Impekoven as the Captured Bird (Gefangener Vogel), Munich, ca. 1919 105 4.9 Niddy Impekoven in Chaconne, Berlin, 1931 107 4.10 Oda Schottmüller wearing a mask for Nachtstück, Berlin, 1935 111 vii 4.11 Ella Ilbak in costume for The Flame, Stockholm, 1924 114 4.12 Ella Ilbak in Sweden, 1948 115 5.1 Maud Allan as Salome, ca. 1908 127 5.2 Maud Allan in Mendelssohn’s Spring Song, ca. 1908 130 5.3 Maud Allan, veiled, ca. 1908 136 6.1 Eros Volúsia dancing a samba, Oia a fóia no a, 1929 146 6.2 Eros Volúsia resting after No Terreiro de Umbanda, 1937 149 6.3 Eros Volúsia in Cascavelando, 1937 153 6.4 Luiz de Abreu with furled flag in Samba do crioulo doido 156 6.5 Luiz de Abreu with a Brazilian flag backdrop in Samba do crioulo doido 157 7.1 Daniel Nagrin in his Strange Hero, 1948 164 7.2 Daniel Nagrin as “Wild Horse” in Annie Get Your Gun, 1946 171 7.3 Daniel Nagrin at seventy-one 183 8.1 Anna Huber in Eine Frage der Zeit, 2008 195 viii Illustrations On Stage Alone
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