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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.

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Book category Books in English The arts Dance & other performing arts Dance

• Full title: Sisters of Salome
• Author: Toni Bentley
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226
• EAN: 9780803262416
• ISBN: 0803262418
• ID: 04923762
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Weight: 350 g
• Dimensions: 154 × 229 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 2005

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