Movie: Salomania

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Yvonne Rainer
Yvonne Rainer

Wu Tsang
Wu Tsang

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    Salomania reconstructs a dance: the ‘dance of the seven veils’ from Alla Nazimova’s 1923 silent film Salomé. Also shown and rehearsed are sections from ‘Valda’s Solo,’ which the choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer created after having seen Nazimova’s film.

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    2009-01-01

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