Synthesis of arts in free dance by Loie Fuller: touches to the musical and plastic portrait of the turn of the 19th-20th centuries

Abstract

The turn of the 19th-20th centuries is a bright period of the heyday of choreographic art. The ballet theater becomes a platform for experiments. Free dance (modern dance) occupies a special place in the genre and style picture of the era. There is the creative biography analysis of the American dancer LoieFuller, who stood at the origins of this synthetic art, in the article. The material of the study was the autobiography of the actress «Fifteen years of my life». Special attention is paid to the characteristics of the creative method of Loie Fuller, based on observation, empathy for the image and intense involvement in the process of movement. The metaphoric images (first of all, the image of fire) created by the dancer in her performances are comprehended by the author of the article in line with the phenomenological method of G. Bachelard, and Fuller’s work as a whole is considered as an illustration of the concept of J. d’Udine about the synthetic nature of art, based on which lies the touch and, accordingly, the gesture.