The dance, one has to give allowances for the fact it's nearly a century ago...is fairly weak. This was the era of great Russian classical ballet dancers, Pavlova, Nijinsky ... But it's certainly an interesting piece of film history.
@@robertschwartz4810I know of the movie but I have never seen it. Kurutta Ippegi (aka "A Page of Madness" 1926) is another. Theres quite a few weird Expressionism silent movies. German Expressionism and also the Dada art movement.
I believe the sets were based loosely on Beardsley's illustrations for Oscar Wildes play Salome. The video for Smashing Pumkins song Standing Inside Your Love has this look also.
Russian born Nazimova was over 40 when she filmed this, extremely lithe and fit like a 20 yr old. She was openly bisexual, an extremely independent woman. Strangely, she was Nancy Reagans god mother and friends with the Salome designer, Natacha Rambova, wife to Rudolph Valentino. Natacha was a ballerina/dancer and from the wealthy Richard Hudnut family. Lots of early Hollywood history.
I didnt know her or that dance. Well, learned something new. She really did not look like a 40 years old. Your right, she really looked much younger.💕💕
Winifred Kimball, aka Natasha Rambova, was the great grand daughter of Herber C. Kimball, one of the founders of the Church of Latter Day Saints. Her mother married Hudnut, who was her step father, and a very wealthy cosmetics manufacturer, one of the first and the one to normalise makeup for every day women. Rambova lived a fascinating life and oversaw archaeological digs in Egypt as a self taught Egyptologist.
@@isabelperez9607 I wonder if you have the same book I have on Winifred aka Natacha Rambova. It's no longer in print but worth searching for... I ask because you had information from the book not readily available online. She did have a varied and interesting life. A fellow dance student, Myrna Loy, said Winnifred/Natacha was the the loveliest woman she ever saw. Her connection to the movie industry, mainly through her extremely famous husband, was not long but influential for design and costuming. On a romantic note, Valentino wore a 'slave' bracelet she gave him and he never took it off, you can see it in some of his films. He also wore a wristwatch, considered to be 'Effeminate', along with wearing his bracelet. In a roundabout way it lead to his early death.... that's another story!
There are some incredibly striking silent films with amazing sets and costumes, and this is one of them. I don't believe the extreme artsiness and artificiality of this movie went over well at the time, but it's really eye-opening to see today. It's a shame how few silent films have survived; we have no way of knowing now how many other pieces like this were made.
Shout out to the guys in the band in antlers... Rite Of Spring influence there! Century later still a mesmerising performer and comprehensive staging. Fixed camera does not mean uninteresting!
Tremendous, music so fitting and evocative. At first thought it must be Russian (Eisenstein, maybe) judging by the visuals, editing and reaction shots. But of course, there's been mavericks and creators in the USA since the movie industry began - we just hear so much less about them. Imagine Oscars going to a film like this, instead of the usual slush.
There's a lot to unpack, here... Firstways, thanks for posting !! Never seen this before !! The modern music was very entertaining. The visuals hint at lots of crossed paths..... Can't help but think that Winsor MacCay's "Little Nemo in Slumberland" was also a major influence on the scene.
40 years ago, I'd a said, "is you is , or is you ain't kiddin?''; now I say: you ain't hardly lyin', 'cause this is like fine modern day art... made yesterday even..
Natacha Rambova, nee Winifred Hudnut. Ballerina and wife to Valentino. She designed some of his film costumes and later became a noted Egyptologist archeologist. Just sayin' she was absolutely gorgeous and what a beautiful couple she & Rudy were! There's a Natacha biography with incredible photos, well worth looking for. Her movie designs /costumes were awesome.
Thank you for the film History. This is quite good. Learning she was friends with Nancy Regan & the rest of the story makes her Real. That saying, "Your Great Grandmother was way cooler than you." comes to mind watching THIS film clip. So many Films have been lost. Probably a good story how this survived censorship, or whatever the name of that bunch was that decided the film industry had to be regulated. Thank you for the Silent Film, Blast From The Past.
The sets and costumes seem to have been taken directly from Aubrey Bearsley's illustrations. I recognize the band's curious headdresses and pompom hairstyles.
THAT'S what was so familiar about this... I kept thinking Oscar Wilde but my brain wouldn't go further. The band Smashing Pumpkins had a music video that borrowed from this style, if I'm remembering correctly... won't swear to it.
Wow this is wonderful and the quality of the image seems fantastic! We tend to think we are more complex and sophisticated or smarter now than anytime in the past but I dont really think so.
Nazimova was an intriguing figure in the early twentieth century. She was a respected actress, which gave her "class" in a Hollywood that loved the exotic (think Valentino and, although thoroughly American, Theda Bara). Better film technique might make this seem somewhat less campy. The "filmed stage play" sense ages this, and lessens the impact. Herod gives a truly eye-popping performance. Nazimova's tiptoeing around in a bathing suit (whither the seven veils?) doesn't quite generate the heat that Oscar Wilde was thinking of, and that Aubrey Beardsley's artwork evoked. Perhaps Nazimova and co. wanted to keep things within the bounds of "good taste," but good taste, in a conventional sense, is hardly what is going to be conveyed by the story of Salomé. And a silent film could not convey Wilde's dialog, with its long monologues. A curiosity. Richard Strauss was bolder in his adaptation of the Wide play eighteen years earlier
@@marcgrobman1993 TR tactile response- like a bit of chest trump , grunt and growl, like a live concert adds a bit beyond just only hearing the music , upmixing can spread some of the mid-bass around the room for more immersion in the sound
@@williamtomkiel8215 Thank you for replying. I think I got it. Let's see: years ago I went to an outdoor reggae concert where, as is often the case with reggae soundsystems, the bass was really cranked up. This was the first time ever at a concert where I could feel the bass reverberating in my guts. Would that be an example of (extreme) tactile response?
@@jadzia2098 I believe it means the make up in silents could be 'dramatic'. The actress, Nazimova, yes! Before Cher, Madonna....she usually was known by one name. She was Russia, so with an accent it was 'Nazee movah'... This posters grandma probably was a contemporary of Nazimova and her daughter (the Mom) was compared to the actress with full face makeup, Ha ha....its a cute story! Not understood by younger folks unless they are movie buffs.
@@richardturner6981 Lillian Gish wrote in her wonderful book about early movie making, the strange, to her, makeup worn by both men and women. It did have to do with the extremely bright lights (resulting in a klieg light blindness in some) and the film stock, I think. But to the young Gish sisters it was very odd to see actors with garish lipstick and eye makeup. Weirdly in early talkies the men still can be seen with heavy makeup. Even tough guys like James Cagney and Edward G Robinson. Yikes!
aestheticism. oscar wilde was one of the pioneers of this art form, "art for the sake of art", it flew in the face of a rigid victorian materialism. a greenwich village of 1880's and 1890's london, art and literature taking a hard left from the world of dickens. and from this new art form, "decadence" became a crime. oscar wilde famously convicted of being gay and doing hard time.
Nazimova and Natacha Rambova certainly did not create this dance sequence and set design to be interpreted as a 'burlesque' piece by any stretch of the imagination. Both women were intent on presenting a highly stylized presentation, inspired by Art Deco and Nouveau aesthetics and classical dance. They would be horrified to be thought of as 'burlesque'!
@@poorthing I used dance burlesque myself many years ago and I have to admit there are elements of burlesque in it. I studied the performing arts in The Northern College of Performing Arts. Burlesque is not that horrific!
I remember watching Salome many decades ago and spent ages trying to find it as a comparison to a Sia video, which I have now forgotten which Sia video 😂
If you are interested. See "Since You Went Away". A 1944 WWII film about a family with Dad gone to war. Nazimova is a factory worker befriended by Claudette Colbert. A wonderful classic film.
Because of this being really one of the first movies they didn't shoot it like it was a movie stage some of the shots have almost a live stage feel to them.
Isadora Duncan has a lot to answer for. Her dance style appeared so easy, effortless and natural to audiences, that few appreciated the exceptional skills in dance and expression required. I suspect that movie directors assumed that any theatre professional could do this sort of "natural" dance with a few lessons. Nazimova was apparently a fine actor --but she was not a professional dancer, and it shows. Awkward.
Not much has changed since then. Hollywood putting "stars" who can't really sing in film adaptations of musical theater, instead of hiring trained musicians.
I agree Nazimova was not a professional dancer. I know of a few people that have the moves and can they dance.....Sometimes you have to be born with it like Valentino in Tango Kisses RUclips
Awkward... Yes But clearly a wonderful display of sensual movement for the day. If it was done today you could have an over the top dancer bust out some super eroticism. I think Lady Gaga should redo this piece with modern players on some indigenous hand drums... 😊
@@jirusjirus9322 Lady Gaga is not a sensual dancer. Her style of dance is very athletic, very unsubtle and nonsensual but apparently the current style. Not appropriate for Salome.
Does such a thing as high art actually exist? Who are these people we've elected to define levels of art? There are no experts in art because we all see art differently. There is only the pretence of expertise.
@@mickram23 High culture to me is derived from ancient hunting traditions expressed in elite ceremonies and functions throughout civilization whether Egyptian, Roman or similar Martial stratifications. Artistic delivery is secondary to ritualistic or martial importance as opposed to mainstream culture which does not contain weaponized elements in choreography or intent. Rite of Spring is another great example of what I could call High Culture. So the definition or High Culture may aswell be equal to Martial or Ritualistic Culture which is is a visceral human experience ingrained into our social DNA.
о сексуальности танца Саломеи приходиться лиш догадываться по волнительным и вожделенным взглядам созерцющих за ней попеременно персонажей в кадре. На деле танец более чем скромен. Хотя для тогдашнего зрителя может это было революцией.
According to Christian Tradition, Salome met her end after falling into a frozen river. As she danced for her life, treading water, a sheet of ice sliced off her head. Beware!
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Amazing. Beautiful. Imagine everybody in that old film is dead now. 1923 was 101 years ago. Rest in peace, souls.
Her dress looks so modern...it could easily be worn today and no one would ever guess it was over 100 years old. Very cool.
Edited for mistyped word.
I found the various spectators' reactions to be even more interesting than the dance itself.
The dance, one has to give allowances for the fact it's nearly a century ago...is fairly weak. This was the era of great Russian classical ballet dancers, Pavlova, Nijinsky ... But it's certainly an interesting piece of film history.
Yes, the women, queen, soldiers, senators! All creepy and perverted!
@@katiedotson704 Reminded me of that scene in "History of the World-pt ll" I expected his sword to start rising!! LMAO!!!
@@katiedotson704 🧐😂
How??
Witchy atmosphere, wild rhythm, and fascinating choreography!! Little masterpiece!!
Thank you very much!
there was not..,.
This performance is almost 100 years old. Nice
My thoughts exactly
They knew how to be weird in the 20s! That was just amazing. I'm glad that it survived all these years.
you are in the 20's
I think they call it the "Expressionism" movement. Ever see the movie Metropolis? Theres a few other movies with this weirdness.
@@SI-ln6tc Expressionism was big in Germany. Check out "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ."
@@robertschwartz4810I know of the movie but I have never seen it.
Kurutta Ippegi (aka "A Page of Madness" 1926) is another.
Theres quite a few weird Expressionism silent movies.
German Expressionism and also the Dada art movement.
@@lilalila213 Haha, good one!
Pure Art Deco. Modern directors could learn from this.
This looks more like Aubrey Beardsley Art Nouveau pen & ink drawings to me, especially since its in black & white
Learn what? I would be fascinated to know....
@@artheaded1 ...I have a full collection of Aubrey Beardsley Art Nouveau pen & ink drawings given to me by a neighbor over 50 years ago.
@@gloriahanes5338 sooo jealous!
I believe the sets were based loosely on Beardsley's illustrations for Oscar Wildes play Salome.
The video for Smashing Pumkins song Standing Inside Your Love has this look also.
Russian born Nazimova was over 40 when she filmed this, extremely lithe and fit like a 20 yr old. She was openly bisexual, an extremely independent woman. Strangely, she was Nancy Reagans god mother and friends with the Salome designer, Natacha Rambova, wife to Rudolph Valentino. Natacha was a ballerina/dancer and from the wealthy Richard Hudnut family. Lots of early Hollywood history.
interesting
I could tell instantly she had formal ballet training from her dance routine.
I didnt know her or that dance. Well, learned something new. She really did not look like a 40 years old. Your right, she really looked much younger.💕💕
Winifred Kimball, aka Natasha Rambova, was the great grand daughter of Herber C. Kimball, one of the founders of the Church of Latter Day Saints. Her mother married Hudnut, who was her step father, and a very wealthy cosmetics manufacturer, one of the first and the one to normalise makeup for every day women. Rambova lived a fascinating life and oversaw archaeological digs in Egypt as a self taught Egyptologist.
@@isabelperez9607 I wonder if you have the same book I have on Winifred aka Natacha Rambova. It's no longer in print but worth searching for...
I ask because you had information from the book not readily available online. She did have a varied and interesting life. A fellow dance student, Myrna Loy, said Winnifred/Natacha was the the loveliest woman she ever saw. Her connection to the movie industry, mainly through her extremely famous husband, was not long but influential for design and costuming.
On a romantic note, Valentino wore a 'slave' bracelet she gave him and he never took it off, you can see it in some of his films. He also wore a wristwatch, considered to be
'Effeminate', along with wearing his bracelet.
In a roundabout way it lead to his early death.... that's another story!
There are some incredibly striking silent films with amazing sets and costumes, and this is one of them. I don't believe the extreme artsiness and artificiality of this movie went over well at the time, but it's really eye-opening to see today. It's a shame how few silent films have survived; we have no way of knowing now how many other pieces like this were made.
the great alla nazimova
E pensar que minissaia assim só seria moda mesmo a partir dos anos 60 e 70... Nessa época uma roupa dessas devia ser um escândalo.
Shout out to the guys in the band in antlers... Rite Of Spring influence there! Century later still a mesmerising performer and comprehensive staging. Fixed camera does not mean uninteresting!
The music they added to this film is fantastic. It definitely enhanced my enjoyment of the video.
And it's in stereo!
And it was written specifically for a silent film!
This could be ERTE put to silent films. Brilliant!
My favorite was the short guy with the curly toed boots. He was really getting into his role with great enthusiasm.
I love the Beardsley costumes.
The dance, the audience & that music...fascinating!
I have to put this down as the most bizarre silent feature I've seen so far. I'll keep looking. 😉
There is taste, reserve, some balance, great skill, wonderful artistic interpretation, a living of the roles, complimentary...
This is beautiful!!!! So pagan! Of course, Oscar Wilde, and the misterios almost gostly ambiance!!
This reminds me of some of the performances on Circ de Soile, even the music. Love it!
Vídeo fantástico para sua época de 1923, realmente muito bem preparado. Gostei muito! Que venham outros vídeos como esse Salomé Dance!
Tremendous, music so fitting and evocative. At first thought it must be Russian (Eisenstein, maybe) judging by the visuals, editing and reaction shots. But of course, there's been mavericks and creators in the USA since the movie industry began - we just hear so much less about them. Imagine Oscars going to a film like this, instead of the usual slush.
I've never seen it with Barber's score. Fantastic.
There's a lot to unpack, here...
Firstways, thanks for posting !! Never seen this before !!
The modern music was very entertaining. The visuals hint at lots of crossed paths.....
Can't help but think that Winsor MacCay's "Little Nemo in Slumberland" was also a major influence on the scene.
This reminds me of Metropolis.
I think its the "Expressionism" movement.
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40 years ago, I'd a said, "is you is , or is you ain't kiddin?''; now I say: you ain't hardly lyin', 'cause this is like fine modern day art... made yesterday even..
Вы хотите сказать,что этому произведению ,около 100 лет?Если так ,то Я в восторге.Благодарю.
А что это за произведение?
I adore the little people paying the instruments! The costumes are a riot!
Most of the costumes are inspired by Aubrey Bearsley's illustrations
Incredible set design!!!!! A very sensual...piece...Loved it....music worked well with it....Great use of costume an fabric!!
Natacha Rambova, nee Winifred Hudnut. Ballerina and wife to Valentino. She designed some of his film costumes and later became a noted Egyptologist archeologist. Just sayin' she was absolutely gorgeous and what a beautiful couple she & Rudy were! There's a Natacha biography with incredible photos, well worth looking for.
Her movie designs /costumes were awesome.
Most of the costumes are inspired by Aubrey Bearsley's illustrations
Mini Dress from 1923..Wow
Thank you for the film History. This is quite good.
Learning she was friends with Nancy Regan & the rest of the story makes her Real.
That saying, "Your Great Grandmother was way cooler than you." comes to mind watching THIS film clip.
So many Films have been lost. Probably a good story how this survived censorship, or whatever the name of that bunch was that decided the film industry had to be regulated.
Thank you for the Silent Film, Blast From The Past.
The sets and costumes seem to have been taken directly from Aubrey Bearsley's illustrations. I recognize the band's curious headdresses and pompom hairstyles.
The designer, Natacha Rambova, was influenced by Beardsley. She was as interesting as Beardsley, both avant garde for their times.
THAT'S what was so familiar about this... I kept thinking Oscar Wilde but my brain wouldn't go further.
The band Smashing Pumpkins had a music video that borrowed from this style, if I'm remembering correctly... won't swear to it.
This is the coolest thing I have seen on RUclips.
The husband/father is a little too much into it.
@@Xesxs lol
This is weird in so many ways. But I love & film clips like this movies from the 1920s. =)
The artistry of Alla Nazimova.😁
Wow this is wonderful and the quality of the image seems fantastic! We tend to think we are more complex and sophisticated or smarter now than anytime in the past but I dont really think so.
Nor do I by far
Vero crediamo di essere migliorati ma in realtà siamo regrediti..
Questa danza è avanti nel tempo per niente affatto superata.
A lot of brilliant experimentation went on in 1920s films. Probably on the stage as well.
Performed 98 years ago in an outfit that any woman today could go the the store in without getting more than an occasional glance or turned head.
Even the hair looks modern (80s).
Blondie
Fabulous percussion track !!!!!! Nice dance.
Cyndi Lauper is no longer a mystery to me...🥰💃🏼 I see her predecessor here.... Very unusual & interesting vibe all around....
hmmm I was getting lady gaga
@@anastasia10017 I can see that....
The whole video is brilliant!!!
Thank you!
Quite interesting. Thanks for posting!
People were more interesting and modern in 1923 than they are in 2021.
We really are devolving dontcha know.
@ yogizorch: Yeah, we're devolving like the Band Devo Says.
Lillian Gish said basically the same thing on the Dick Cavett show in 1971.
History goes in a cycle like waves in an ocean, learn why their progress was halted, look up the Hays Code and listen to You Must Remember This
@@juliannehannes11 the HAYS Code: censors gone mad, idiocy running rampant, the foretaste of Hitler, Stalin, Trump, McConnell, Limbaugh, Gingrich.
Amazing choreography!
1923, the year my mother was born... wondering if my grandparents saw this... she was good ❤
Amazing!
Different, but very interestng.!! Thank you for sharing!
Absolutely fascinating and the music is highly appropriate for the scenery
Nazimova was an intriguing figure in the early twentieth century. She was a respected actress, which gave
her "class" in a Hollywood that loved the exotic (think Valentino and, although thoroughly American,
Theda Bara).
Better film technique might make this seem somewhat less campy. The "filmed stage play" sense ages
this, and lessens the impact. Herod gives a truly eye-popping performance. Nazimova's tiptoeing around
in a bathing suit (whither the seven veils?) doesn't quite generate the heat that Oscar Wilde was thinking of, and that Aubrey Beardsley's artwork evoked. Perhaps Nazimova and co. wanted to keep things within the bounds of "good taste," but good taste, in a conventional sense, is hardly what is going to be conveyed by the story of Salomé. And a silent film could not convey Wilde's dialog, with its long monologues.
A curiosity.
Richard Strauss was bolder in his adaptation of the Wide play eighteen years earlier
Splendid!
the audio upmixed into DTS:X using 7.4.6 in my HT
great piece of work clear clean sharp detailed even some TR from the deeper drums
"TR"? What's that mean?
@@marcgrobman1993 TR tactile response- like a bit of chest trump , grunt and growl, like a live concert adds a bit beyond just only hearing the music , upmixing can spread some of the mid-bass around the room for more immersion in the sound
@@marcgrobman1993 tactile response like that sound when gravity takes over
@@williamtomkiel8215 Thank you for replying. I think I got it. Let's see: years ago I went to an outdoor reggae concert where, as is often the case with reggae soundsystems, the bass was really cranked up. This was the first time ever at a concert where I could feel the bass reverberating in my guts. Would that be an example of (extreme) tactile response?
This is some weird dancing, but the music is amazing.
Ножки очень красивые!... 👍😊
When my Mom used to wear too much makeup, my Grandma would tell my Mom that she looked like, "Nazee moovah!"
Hysterical!
Can i ask you what it means??
@@jadzia2098 I believe it means the make up in silents could be 'dramatic'. The actress, Nazimova, yes! Before Cher, Madonna....she usually was known by one name. She was Russia, so with an accent it was 'Nazee movah'...
This posters grandma probably was a contemporary of Nazimova and her daughter (the Mom) was compared to the actress with full face makeup,
Ha ha....its a cute story! Not understood by younger folks unless they are movie buffs.
@ Croix Dr Loren: Both male and female actors wore heavy makeup 💄 back then including male actors wearing 💄It had something to do with the lighting.
@@richardturner6981 Lillian Gish wrote in her wonderful book about early movie making, the strange, to her, makeup worn by both men and women. It did have to do with the extremely bright lights (resulting in a klieg light blindness in some) and the film stock,
I think. But to the young Gish sisters it was very odd to see actors with garish lipstick and eye makeup. Weirdly in early talkies the men still can be seen with heavy makeup. Even tough guys like James Cagney and Edward G Robinson. Yikes!
Wow....outstanding!
Saw the film on TCM recently-it was a revelation!👍
Well, I'm speechless!
It reminds me of a pre-curser to Fellini!
AMAZING!
Ваааау!!!! Классная постановка!!! Вот это действительно танец, после которого можно требовать все!
Wishing Google Translate or another translation app was available to know what was said.
Неужели, по-моему наивно и глуповато
5:26 - Pris under a veil hiding from Deckard is a taken from this shot
I'm sure Ken Russell also borrowed from this as well in "Salome's Last Dance"!
Bet Blondi was inspired in this video!!
Scandalous for it’s time. Beautiful
aestheticism. oscar wilde was one of the pioneers of this art form, "art for the sake of art", it flew in the face of a rigid victorian materialism. a greenwich village of 1880's and 1890's london, art and literature taking a hard left from the world of dickens. and from this new art form, "decadence" became a crime. oscar wilde famously convicted of being gay and doing hard time.
I love this burlesque performance, the costumes are beautiful
Nazimova and Natacha Rambova certainly did not create this dance sequence and set design to be interpreted as a 'burlesque' piece by any stretch of the imagination. Both women were intent on presenting a highly stylized presentation, inspired by Art Deco and Nouveau aesthetics and classical dance. They would be horrified to be thought of as 'burlesque'!
@@poorthing I used dance burlesque myself many years ago and I have to admit there are elements of burlesque in it. I studied the performing arts
in The Northern College of Performing Arts. Burlesque is not that horrific!
Most of the costumes are inspired by Aubrey Bearsley's illustrations
I remember watching Salome many decades ago and spent ages trying to find it as a comparison to a Sia video, which I have now forgotten which Sia video 😂
I did a song based on the play Salome that is very good, you may like it.
Extraordinaire artists.
If you are interested. See "Since You Went Away". A 1944 WWII film about a family with Dad gone to war. Nazimova is a factory worker befriended by Claudette Colbert. A wonderful classic film.
Woah this is amazing 😍
Wow-different. Think I just fell in love
Beautiful ❤️
Лица массовки выразительнее деревянного танца Соломии ! 😂
Согласна 😂😂😂особенно император красавчик 😂😂😂
Танец совсем не цепляет, ну совсем...
@@cvet_nastroeniya Тетрарх!
@@asd-d3t это его имя? Спасибо)) героев надо знать в лицо)) особенно ТАКОЕ 😁😁😁
@@cvet_nastroeniya Не имя! Это не император а тетрарх! Это известный библейский эпизод! Желаю вам хорошего настроения!
Brilliant!
La auténtica danza contemporanea❤
The backing dancers - at 5:55 and 2 prior points - stole the show. 😉😊
Way ahead for her time! Whearing a mini , short dress!!!
Bravo!!!
She was a beautiful dancer.
Because of this being really one of the first movies they didn't shoot it like it was a movie stage some of the shots have almost a live stage feel to them.
Arty Freak Deco. Adorable. Lovely. 🖤🖤🖤
Let’s here it for the band!
Wow, she looks like she is from our time and that she time travelled to the 1920s. I imagine the dress was like the underwear then.
To think that fifty years later Salome's outfit would be considered acceptable office wear.
What kind of office?
@@AnnDroid877- the short short '60's skirts as office wear to appeal to bosses and boyfriends.
Grandioso! Introvabile !
Incrível! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Expressionism.
it's lovely, but if she could dance a little better....but it was her film and she can dance however she wanted to.
Blonde Women continue to set the Standard for Beauty.❤😊
The main attraction's dance is out of date, but the whole rest, including costumes is fantastic.
Wow, I wonder if this music inspired the Alan Parsons Project, Total Eclipse?
The vocalizations are so modern/hip-hop cool. Totally insane. Probably the best part of this whole scene.
just one hundred year and so different from today. Imagine 2000 years ago how should it be
Great work 💕💕💕 like 33
Big thanks
Remarkable, how the facial expressions and costumes resemble the dystopian AI videos being made today.
🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
I LOVE IT!
Isadora Duncan has a lot to answer for. Her dance style appeared so easy, effortless and natural to audiences, that few appreciated the exceptional skills in dance and expression required. I suspect that movie directors assumed that any theatre professional could do this sort of "natural" dance with a few lessons. Nazimova was apparently a fine actor --but she was not a professional dancer, and it shows. Awkward.
Not much has changed since then. Hollywood putting "stars" who can't really sing in film adaptations of musical theater, instead of hiring trained musicians.
I agree Nazimova was not a professional dancer. I know of a few people that have the moves
and can they dance.....Sometimes you have to be born with it like Valentino in Tango Kisses RUclips
Awkward... Yes
But clearly a wonderful display of sensual movement for the day.
If it was done today you could have an over the top dancer bust out some super eroticism.
I think Lady Gaga should redo this piece with modern players on some indigenous hand drums... 😊
@@jirusjirus9322 Lady Gaga is not a sensual dancer. Her style of dance is very athletic, very unsubtle and nonsensual but apparently the current style. Not appropriate for Salome.
Hmm, seems like showbiz pretending to be high art. But a fab curiosity and a great score by Barber.
Does such a thing as high art actually exist?
Who are these people we've elected to define levels of art? There are no experts in art because we all see art differently.
There is only the pretence of expertise.
@@mickram23 There are definitely experts. They are those who have practiced and read widely in the field.
@@topologyrob You can't read up on art, you can only experience it for yourself.
If you have to read about it you are no expert.
@@mickram23 you can do both
@@mickram23 High culture to me is derived from ancient hunting traditions expressed in elite ceremonies and functions throughout civilization whether Egyptian, Roman or similar Martial stratifications. Artistic delivery is secondary to ritualistic or martial importance as opposed to mainstream culture which does not contain weaponized elements in choreography or intent. Rite of Spring is another great example of what I could call High Culture. So the definition or High Culture may aswell be equal to Martial or Ritualistic Culture which is is a visceral human experience ingrained into our social DNA.
о сексуальности танца Саломеи приходиться лиш догадываться по волнительным и вожделенным взглядам созерцющих за ней попеременно персонажей в кадре. На деле танец более чем скромен. Хотя для тогдашнего зрителя может это было революцией.
Наверное, как и айседора Дункан в своё время
Да, я тоже бь сказала, что танец Саломе совсем невпечатляющий.
Революцией был её костюм. Такое носят в наше время.
The music didn't seem to fit the scene at all.
I couldn't disagree more!
Beautiful!
According to Christian Tradition, Salome met her end after falling into a frozen river. As she danced for her life, treading water, a sheet of ice sliced off her head. Beware!
never heard THAT before. ??
That's a first time for me as well.
Easy come, easy go. Never thought she'd get ahead.
EPICO !
A mini skirt in 1923 drove men wild. 100 years later it's just every girl on Saturday.
I'm sure that I'm not sure
Let me get back to you please
A mini skirt, or less...😅
@1400deadwood Just speak for yourself. Lol
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