Fun at the Faire #17 - Salome by goodoleboy
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Where she danced.
Captured, not at the Renaissance Faire held at the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area in Irwindale last month, but the one held back on 11/7/10, at the Felicita County Park, 742, in Escondido, California. This was the first Faire I ever attended, and was nowhere as crowded as the recent Irwindale show.
She dances provocatively to the mesmerizing beat of the music. And seems rather amused to see she has left the young urchin at the lower right of the last photo corrupted for the rest of his life.
Even as an old fogey, this is why I drive many miles to these events.
A ZOOM is more than recommended.
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Salome is often identified with the dancing woman from the New Testament (Mark 6:17-29 and Matthew 14:3-11, where, however, her name is not given). Christian traditions depict her as an icon of dangerous female seductiveness, notably in regard to the dance mentioned in the New Testament, which is thought to have had an erotic element to it, and in some later transformations it has further been iconized as the Dance of the Seven Veils. Other elements of Christian tradition concentrate on her lighthearted and cold foolishness that, according to the gospels, led to John the Baptist's death.
A similar motif was struck by Oscar Wilde in his Salome, in which she plays the role of femme fatale. This parallel representation of the Christian iconography, made even more memorable by Richard Strauss' opera based on Wilde's work, is as consistent with Josephus' account as the traditional Christian depiction; however, according to the Romanized Jewish historian, Salome lived long enough to marry twice and raise several children. Few literary accounts elaborate the biographical data given by Josephus.
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Shalom.
Comments (9)
MrsRatbag
Superb series of shots of this seductive temptress, Harry; although I really don't see anything terribly overindulgent in her getup. In fact she looks a bit innocent and maidenly all in white, as it were. Well, I didn't see her dance, so maybe that's where it all comes out. At any rate, looks like a fun time was had by all, and I'll bet you enjoyed it too!
bmac62
Excellent photos Harry. I am left smiling at the casualness of the musicians providing the rhythmic sounds for your dancer in the foreground. By providing us with five shots we get ...a sense of her dance...all quite alluring.
claude19
THANK YOU for sharing with us in this series of photographs, the good humor was in this party ... and I do not think this child is also corrupted by dance this girl than I was at this age by the deafening sound of bombs were dropped in France over our heads refuge in the cellar of the building!!!
goodoleboy
It's all a question of semantics. Your idea of corruption is not my idea of corruption. In this case they don't even connect. And I didn't know you were around during WWII.
jocko500
wow you surprise me with the Bible stuff there. your too. very good images .
giulband
Very very good series
durleybeachbum
She looks fairly demure to me. Very interesting photos!
racolt33
Extremely colorful images looks like a good time. Nice postwork!
Cyve
Absolutely fantastic... Wonderful captures my friend !
anahata.c
Biblical costumes now, in contrast with the Renaissance and Medieval costumes of many earlier faire pieces. (Well, whether those costumes are really "Biblical" I guess is partly conjecture; but they're what we think was biblical, or from the ancient Near East; and they're beautiful costumes regardless.) Yes (ala bill) the musicians are casual, but that's musicians: They don't show a lot of emotion while they're playing. Nice captures of them all, and in sequence as they subtly change for each shot. And, as in other of these faire shots, we see modern observers mingling in the background, a really fun juxtaposition. And the dancer winnows her way through the shots, making a full circle from top to bottom. Very nice captures of the human richness of a fair, and of artists seriously at work, smiles or no. The circle of moves by the dancer gives a unity to the montage. More of your innate montage-sense at work.