Salomania

Name: Salomania
Released: 2009-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 17 min
Rating: 4
Cast: Yvonne Rainer, Wu Tsang

Salomania reconstructs a dance: the ‘dance of the seven veils’ from Alla Nazimova’s 1923 silent film Salomé. Also shown and rehearsed are sections from ‘Valda’s Solo,’ which the choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer created after having seen Nazimova’s film.