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Disappearing Mermaids: Staging White Women's Mobility through Aquatic Performance at the New York Hippodrome
Theatre Survey Pub Date : 2023-01-11 , DOI: 10.1017/s0040557422000527
Sunny Stalter-Pace

The New York Hippodrome theatre brought together many different types of performance on its massive stage. Its opening production in 1905, for instance, included circus acts, a ballet, and a fictionalized Civil War battle (Fig. 1). Many of the acts focused on a key feature in the theatrical environment, a water tank beneath the apron of the stage that could be filled to a fourteen-foot depth. High divers plunged into the tank; in shows with an “ice ballet,” its water was frozen into a skating rink; for a production of HMS Pinafore, a replica ship floated in its water with Brooklyn Navy Yard sailors in the rigging. Yet one tank act repeated and was recalled more than any of the others: a phalanx of women in martial costumes who marched solemnly, row after row, into the water and disappeared.

中文翻译:

消失的美人鱼:通过纽约竞技场的水上表演展现白人女性的机动性

纽约竞技场剧院在其巨大的舞台上汇集了许多不同类型的表演。例如,它于 1905 年首演,包括马戏表演、芭蕾舞和虚构的内战(图 1)。许多表演都集中在戏剧环境的一个关键特征上,即舞台围裙下方的一个水箱,水箱可以注满 14 英尺深。高位潜水员跳入水箱;在“冰上芭蕾”的表演中,它的水被冻结成溜冰场;用于生产HMS 围裙,一艘复制船漂浮在水面上,布鲁克林海军造船厂的水手们在索具上。然而,有一个坦克动作重复出现,并且比其他任何动作都更容易被记住:一群穿着军装的妇女庄严地行军,一排又一排,进入水中消失了。
更新日期:2023-01-11
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