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SALOME



SALOME- ALLA NAZIMOVA- 1923

SALOME WHERE SHE DANCED- YVONNE DECARLO- 1945

SALOME- DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS-  RITA HAYWORTH- 1953

SALOME'S DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS- KING OF KINGS- 1961

STRAUSS OPERA- SALOME- TERESA STRATAS- 1974

SALOME'S LAST DANCE- KEN RUSSELL- 1988

STRAUSS OPERA- SALOME- PATRICIA RACETTE- 2016

STRAUSS OPERA- SALOME- PATRICIA RACETTE- 2017

No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her body; who breaks the will, masters the mind of a King by the spectacle of her quivering bosoms, heaving belly and tossing thighs; she was now revealed in a sense as the symbolic incarnation of world-old Vice, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, the Curse of Beauty supreme above all other beauties by the cataleptic spasm that stirs her flesh and steels her muscles, - a monstrous Beast of the Apocalypse, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, poisoning.
Joris-Karl Huysmans- 1884





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