Publications
These writings are copyright by Jody Sperling and may not be reproduced, in part or whole,without express permission. Texts are presented as PDF files and can be viewed using Adobe Reader.
The sketch above is a comic rendering of a skirt dancer from the 1890s. See "Sublime and Ridiculous".
forthcoming: "Costuming as Cosmos: La Loïe Skirts the Universe" to be published in Birds of Paradise: Costume as Cinematic Spectacle (coming in spring 2011)
Technology's Ghosts: Loie Fuller and the Magic Lantern
Read Jody Sperling's article on Loie Fuller in the Technology Issue of Dance Magazine, December 2007 . Download PDF
Loie Fuller Book Review Essay
Read Jody Sperling on Rhonda Garelick's Electric Salome & Ann Cooper Albright's Traces of Light. Dance Films Association, Annual Review, 2008. Download PDF
"Sublime or Ridiculous?: Some Thoughts on Marie Leyton's Electrical Serpentine Dance of the 1890s"
Paper delivered at the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Society of Dance History Scholars, The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada, June, 2006. Published in conference proceedings. Download PDF
"Loie Fuller and the Magic-Lantern"
Delivered at the Dancing in the Millennium Conference, Washington, DC, 2000. Download PDF
"Skirting the Image: The Origins of Loie Fuller's Serpentine Dance"
This is a slightly-edited version of a paper delivered at the Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the Society of Dance History Scholars, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, June 1999, and published in conference proceedings. This text was translated into Italian and appears in Danza di luce, a collection of essays about Loie Fuller published by Skira in conjuction with the Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto. Download PDF
Additional Conference Presentations/Publications:
- "A Sensational Turn: Charmion in the Pages of the World," delivered at the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Society of Dance History Scholars, University of Limerick, Ireland, 2003.
- "Works Choreographed and Staged by Jerome Robbins," (with Lynn Garafola) in Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet (ed. Lynn Garafola), Columbia University Press, New York, 1999.
- "Film and Video: Choreography for Camera " (with Nancy Becker Schwartz) in The International Encyclopedia of Dance, Oxford University Press, New York, 1998.
Sperling has also written many articles appearing in Dance Magazine and The Village Voice.
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| Dance Films Association Annual Review 2008 | 2.21 MB |
| Loie Fuller Dance Mag 2007.pdf | 2.46 MB |
| Electric Serpentine.pdf | 114.37 KB |
| Magic-Lantern.pdf | 85.22 KB |
| skirting_the_image.pdf | 103.78 KB |