Transcript Dancing the Orient for England: Maud Allan’s The Vision of

Dancing the Orient for England:
Maud Allan’s The Vision of
Salome
By Amy Koritz
Presentation by Kasey Clark and
Edited By: Laura Pratt and Dr.
Kay Picart
Key Terms
• Orientalism_____________________________________________
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• Imperialism_____________________________________________
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• Separate-Spheres Gender Ideology_____________________________________________
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Allan’s Typical Audience
• What were English audiences like?
• How was “otherness” looked at?
Maud Allan
• famous barefoot dancer in the early 20th
century
• often compared to Isadora Duncan and Ruth
St. Denis
• best known for her portrayal of the woman
who calls for the head of John the Baptist in
The Vision of Salome
The Dance
What is a Salome
dance?
Do you think Maud Allan was conscious of
how innovative her dance was in making a
hypocritical audience crave what they feared
most? Or do you think she really actually
valued separate spheres ideologies imposed
on her? How far ahead of her time can a
woman be when such social trappings are so
closely associated with gender and class?
Works Cited
• Imperialism. 26 March, 2005. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.26
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• Koritz, Amy. “Dancing the Orient for England: Maud Allan’s The
Vision of Salome”. Meaning in Motion. Desmond, Jane C., ed., Duke
University Press,1997.
• “Les Artistes Exécutantes: Maud Allen.” Online Image. Herstory:Une
Exposition. 26 March, 2005.
http://library.usask.ca/herstory/allenfr.html.
• “Maud Allen.” Online Image. Gilded Serpent.com. 26 March, 2005.
http://www.gildedserpent.com/articles26/najiaqueenofdance.htm.
• Thierer, Joyce and Miles, Lisa. April 1993.Emporia State University,
Center for Great Plains Studies. 26 March, 2005.
http://www.emporia.edu/cgps/tales/a93tales.htm.