Posts Tagged Musee d’Orsay
Loie Fuller
Posted by J. Quigley in 20th Century, Culture, Dance, drawings, Form, Modern Dance, Photography, Poetry, Women on February 5, 2012
Loie Fuller dancing with her veil, 1897
Photograph by Isaiah West Taber (1830-1912)
(C) RMN (Musée d’Orsay) / Michèle Bellot
Koloman Moser
Fuller depicted by Koloman Moser (1901)
“to Odette”
Fair white swan of mystic night
singing me wave upon wave
of moonlight
you spin and white lace encircles you
spirals of echoing light
a rapid bouree to a moonbeam
and the cold calculating scent of morning
hangs like icicles from your breath
caress me gently, my dove,
kiss me!
– the cold still kiss of night
of death
(a wane hand upon my shoulder now)
embrace
a circle of lines
a symmetry of passion
ending in arabesque
your converging planes
form a portal to my soul
love, fair, sweet swan of love!
-(c) 1998 Gustav BenJava