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[[File:Salome loie Fuller 1895.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Loie Fuller]] as [[Salome]]]]

''' Salomé ''' (1895) is a ballet, or "pantomime lyrique", by [[Armand Sylvestre]] [with [[Charles Henry Meltzer]]] (libr.), [[Gabriel Pierné]] (mus.), and [[Loie Fuller]] (chor.).  

==Abstract==

''Salomé'' (1895) was the first Salome piece ever performed. One year before the premiere of [[Oscar Wilde]]'s play and ten years before [[Richard Strauss]]'s opera, the authors could still ignore [[Salome]]'s rising image as an "Oriental" ''femme fatale''. Following the traditional "biblical" view, they presented her dressed in a white robe adorned with white roses, as "an innocent child who dances before Herod at the instigation of her mother. Salome does not ask for the head of John the Baptist and when it is delivered to her she falls to the ground in fright". By contrast, in her choreography for the 1907 Schmitt ballet, Fuller would use a completely different Salome image, not a biblical image, but an "Oriental" femme fatale, and would focus more on the technical and electrical aspects of the dance spectacle.

==Original cast==

*[[Loie Fuller]] = [[Salome (music)|Salome (ballet)]]

==Editions, performances==

Premiered in Paris, France: Théâtre de l'Athénée, 4 March 1895 (closed 27 April 1895).

==External links==

* [http://www.gildedserpent.com/cms/2013/05/01/iana-orientalism-early-modern-dance/#axzz4cUl9goRr Iana Komarnytska, ''Dreaming of the East: Orientalism in Early Modern Dance'']


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