#serpentine dancer

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Serpentine Dancer   -   Koloman Moser  c.1902 .

Austrian, 1869 - 1918

Watercolour

[ladylabsinthe]

SERPENTINE DANCER POSTCARD

[hush-house-yard-sale]

*something creeps in, slithering rhythmically across the cracks in the bridge. It whispers*

Greetings, do you have a book on dance? Particularly for one whose body… is not made for human movements.

Certainly.

Rapt In The King

Detailed accounts of secret bacchanals and ecstatic dances observed in necropolises and graveyards in Southern Europe, in Egypt and in Anatolia. The author is a self-confessed ghoul, an eater of buried flesh: he claims to have witnessed the dances while at his feasting.

Rapt In The King has quite the list of dances and rituals. While many are clearly meant for those with limbs of one kind or another, many of the formations could be replicated (with some effort) by one without. I recommend you skip the descriptions of the feasts.

The Ceaseless Tantra

The avant-garde choreographer Nicholas Keirle supposedly incorporated this Tantra into his menacing ballets.

The Ceasless Tantra does have more depictions of dance meant for nonhumans, though percussigants, regrettably, are also in possession of limbs.

In spite of what the sale may lead you to believe, I am continuing to acquire books for the Library's collection, and if neither of these are of use to you, I welcome you to check back at a later date to see if I've managed to acquire a tome on dances meant for the serpentine.

[ladylabsinthe]

Serpentine Dancer a la Loie Fuller, Posted in 1907

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Koloman Moser, Serpentine dancer. Poster design for Lois Fuller., 1902