Dance Script with Electric Ballerina (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Fulton
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Art or artists, Poetry or poets, Criticism, Dancing or dancers, Ballet or ballet dancers
The Poem
“Dance Script with Electric Ballerina,” at eighty-four lines, is one of Alice Fulton’s longer poems; it is an important one because it provides insight into Fulton’s artistic objectives. Written in four stanzas of varying length, the free-verse poem presents the persona of a ballerina dancing and discussing her theory of dance. At times the ballerina seems to be addressing the ballet’s audience, but at other times she seems to be speaking to a sympathetic co-conspirator, perhaps a fellow ballerina.
The poem begins with the ballerina “limbering up”...
[The entire page is 1588 words long]
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