Loie Fuller's influence on F.T. Marinetti's Futurist dance

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Dancer Loie Fuller prefigured theatrical techniques described in F.T. Marinetti's 1909 "Founding and Manifesto of Futurism." Fuller revolutionized performance style by creating special effects with light and costume. Futurist F.T. Marinetti admired Fuller and believed old artistic forms needed to be discarded. New forms should reflect excitement for technology. Fuller danced for the Parisian Folies-Bergere in the late 19th century.

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Buckminster Fuller: experience and experiencing

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The daughter of R. Buckminster Fuller describes her process of learning about dance, which was shaped by her father, who believed in experiential and self-generated learning. The relationship between the mind and physical experience is the key to education, according to this way of thinking. Buckminster Fuller's thinking was an integration of his mind and body, which his daughter carried into her own work as a dance ethnologist.

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Revolutionaries of the theatrical experience: Fuller and the Futurists

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Forms of theatrical performance developed by Loie Fuller and the Futurists are remarkably similar. Fuller danced in Paris in the late 19th century. Her performances were marked by special lighting effects, unique costumes, and energetic movement. The Futurists in the early 20th century used objects to dramatically reflect natural forces and create new artistic realities.

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