#eva palmer sikelianos

[bizarreauhavre]

Eva Palmer-Sikelianos, 1907.

[chthonic-cassandra]

At last Eva was kneeling in the hot white dust of the great theatre at Delphi. She had finally gathered all of the threads in her hands, the money borrowed and the costumes woven, the singers and the stonemasons: she brought them together amid the circles of limestone seats hewn into the hillside. Of course Eva herself had always been at Delphi, the temple of Apollo rising at her back. In 1927 Eva Palmer Sikelianos held the first Festival of Delphi since the time of Aeschylus. Before a throng of thousands, Eva directed the dance of the chorus. In double rings they moved towards the tragedy; in solemn lines they bent to fate. An actress unlike a sibyl cannot lose herself in the stream of prophetic madness. She may see the very stones fissure before her, the pitiless maw of the world gape open: still the actress says her lines, she sings her part. She has practised all her life the genitive of remembering. Thus she goes on forever as if it were still the fourth century before the new gods, flecks of dust in her long grey hair.

Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

[amelia-rate]

Via textilesocietyofamerica.org "Classical Greek education impressed Palmer from her youth. She devoted her life and wealth to the revival of Greek culture, theater, and weaving. Her artistic endeavors were centered around the creation and wearing of ancient Greek clothing. When she decided to wear only clothes that she wove herself, she left behind the industrialized West and capitalism. She supported simplicity and freedom in women’s dress. She also inspired other women to be creative, and she revived the horizontal loom and hand weaving."

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[venicepearl]

Evelina "Eva" Palmer-Sikelianos (January 9, 1874 – June 4, 1952) was an American woman notable for her study and promotion of Classical Greek culture, weaving, theater, choral dance and music. Palmer's life and artistic endeavors intersected with numerous noteworthy artists throughout her life. She was both inspired by or inspired the likes of dancers Isadora Duncan and Ted Shawn, the French literary great Colette, the poet and author Natalie Barney and the actress Sarah Bernhardt. She would go on to marry Angelos Sikelianos, a Greek poet and playwright. Together they organized a revival of the Delphic Festival in Delphi, Greece. Embodied in these festivals of art, music and theater she hoped to promote a balanced sense of enlightenment that would further the goals of peace and harmony in Greece and beyond.

[abwwia]

Eva Palmer-Sikelianos

[diioonysus]

eve palmer-sikelianos (1874-1952) was an american composer, choreographer, master weaver, and apphic feminist, whose devotion to ancient greek traditions helped inspire a modern revival of ancient greek culture. eva's compositions were unique in their unadorned melodies, projecting the ancient into modernist music, well before minimalism. she studied ecclesiastical byzantine music in athens. she helped create a custom micro-tonal organ, the evion panharmonium, to play the 42 intervals unique to byzantine tuning. un her stagings of ancient greek tragedies during the late 1920s, she provided the choreography and hand-woven costumes, as well as some of the music. the rest of her music, mostly composed in the late 1930s and early 1940s, consistently focused on Greek-language monophonic chant, composed in byzantine notation, for voice, flute, cello, and oboe.

[victorianchap]

🔸 Portrait of Eva Palmer Sikelianos, taken circa 1907. She was a prominent figure in the movement toward reviving ancient Greek artistic and cultural practices during the early twentieth century. Sikelianos is remembered for her love of Greece and her decision to embrace a lifestyle that mirrored the country’s ancient history. A New York debutante, she studied ancient Greek and Latin briefly at Bryn Mawr College but left school to pursue an unconventional artistic life. She became a crucial member of the lesbian circle of Natalie Clifford Barney but then moved to Greece and married Angelos Sikelianos. #victorianchaps #portrait #vintage #evapalmersikelianos #edwardian #greece🇬🇷 #goodolddays #1900s #lgbt #pastlives #history #retro #nostalgia #oldphoto https://www.instagram.com/p/CgWWQBlAj4f/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[dearanpo]

i just found out that oscar wilde's niece, dorothy, was a lover of natalie clifford barney, an american writer known for her feminist works whose first lover was eva palmer, the wife of angelos sikelianos, the greek poet

nothing special sometimes i like to connect things and get so excited seeing how small the world is

[valkyries-things]

EVA PALMER-SIKELIANOS // ARTIST

“She was an American woman notable for her study and promotion of Classical Greek culture, weaving, theatre, choral dance and music. Palmer’s life and artistic endeavors intersected with numerous noteworthy artists throughout her life. Her and her husband, Angelos Sikelianos, organised a revival of the Delphic Festival in Delphi, Greece. Embodied in these festivals of art, music and theatre she hoped to promote a balanced sense of enlightenment that would further the goals of peace and harmony in Greece and beyond.”

[mariacallous]

This is the first biography to tell the fascinating story of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874–1952), an American actor, director, composer, and weaver best known for reviving the Delphic Festivals. Yet, as Artemis Leontis reveals, Palmer’s most spectacular performance was her daily revival of ancient Greek life. For almost half a century, dressed in handmade Greek tunics and sandals, she sought to make modern life freer and more beautiful through a creative engagement with the ancients. Along the way, she crossed paths with other seminal modern artists such as Natalie Clifford Barney, Renée Vivien, Isadora Duncan, Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook, Richard Strauss, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Nikos Kazantzakis, George Seferis, Henry Miller, Paul Robeson, and Ted Shawn.

Brilliant and gorgeous, with floor-length auburn hair, Palmer was a wealthy New York debutante who studied Greek at Bryn Mawr College before turning her back on conventional society to live a lesbian life in Paris. She later followed Raymond Duncan (brother of Isadora) and his wife to Greece and married the Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos in 1907. With single-minded purpose, Palmer re-created ancient art forms, staging Greek tragedy with her own choreography, costumes, and even music. Having exhausted her inheritance, she returned to the United States in 1933, was blacklisted for criticizing American imperialism during the Cold War, and was barred from returning to Greece until just before her death.

Drawing on hundreds of newly discovered letters and featuring many previously unpublished photographs, this biography vividly re-creates the unforgettable story of a remarkable nonconformist whom one contemporary described as “the only ancient Greek I ever knew.”

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[fawnvelveteen]

Eva Palmer Sikelianos

[chthonic-cassandra]

Ultimately my biggest critiques of After Sappho can all be encapsulated in the fact that Khorshed Naoroji, the Indian musician who lived for a time with Eva Palmer Sikelianos at which point they both explored parallels between Greek and Indian music and clothing and also possibly did kinky ageplay (based on how they addressed one another in their letters), was not included.

[cherry-vennom]

Eva Palmer-Sikelianos, 1907

Creative, brilliant, and stunning with floor-length red hair, she was an American actor and director who loved women and ancient Greece and forged an artistic alliance with her Greek poet husband Angelos Sikelianos that shaped twentieth-century Greek culture.

Throughout her life, Eva was a non-conformist. She seduced Natalie Clifford Barney in Bar Harbor (by Barney’s recollection) and followed her to Paris in the early 1900s. They aimed to create a woman-centered utopia reviving the spirit of Sappho’s Lesbos. Willful anachronism was part of their artistic practice. Eva, immersed in theatricality and Greek sources, devised the hairstyles, dress, music, gestures, scenery, and props for Barney’s performances that played with gender ambiguity.

- Artemis Leontis

[warburtonave]

Natalie Barney’s lovers: Eva Palmer-Sikelianos

[abwwia]

Frances LeFevre Sikelianos (source)

see also: Eva Palmer-Sikelianos, Frances ' mother-in-law https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2024/01/09/eva-palmer-sikelianos/