Ectospasms: The Fox Sisters in Dance
The Lola Lola Dance Theatre will debut their multi-media dance theatre piece, Ectospasms, as part of the New York International Fringe Festival scheduled for August 14th – 23rd.
Ectospasms is a play on the term coined by spiritualists for a substance allegedly produced by the disembodied, Ectoplasm.
As repulsed as we are by ectoplasm, we are just as attracted to all things related in any way to The Fox Sisters.
In fact, you can read both Houdini’s account of The Fox Sisters and Maggie Fox confession in our Inside Magic Library for free.
Ironically, Maggie, Katie and Leah never produced ectoplasm in their seances. Like another innovator, Vanilla Ice, they were all about the rapping. (Although Katie did perform some full-body materialzations later in her career).
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A Magician Among the Spirits Available
This has become a passion and a time-suck all in one.
We started by reading The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox
We went back to read Houdini’s A Magician Among the Spirits and finally understood some of the passion we previously misinterpreted to be a strident, arrogant tone.
Read in context with the Spiritualism movement, Houdni’s A Magician Among the Spirits is the perfect, logical balance to the incredible claims of spiritualists.
All of this led to our reading Maggie Fox’s The Death Blow to Spiritualism.
While she later recanted her recantation, it is a sombering experience to hear the side of the woman (along with her younger sister, Katie, and older sister, Leah) started Spiritualism and all that it produced.
Now, we find ourselves with an irrational crush on Maggie Fox and an even greater sense of awe of Harry Houdini.
More about this investigation later but for now, check out the downloadable PDF of A Magician Among the Spirits, by Houdini.
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Are Margery and the Fox Sisters Still Living Large?
(Reprinted from April 12, 2003).
We know that the Jonathan Edward-esque medium has a tepid following. We thought he was an aberration.
We just assumed there was not a wide-spread support for such bunk.
We were wrong and it is kind of scary how the revisionist pen can keep alive long ago solved mysteries.
The we read of a new literary exhibition: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Beyond Sherlock Holmes, opens this weekend at Chicago’s prestigious Newberry Library.
Sir Arthur’s magazines, artworks, photographs and artifacts have been collected for presentation through July 12.
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