Constance Hauman - Lulu - "Salome's Last Dance" or "Long Live the King"

The setting is a deconstructed theatre: wings, dressing room, and front curtain are all present--but they are in skewed and illogical relation to one another. Upstage is a lone audience member, Dr. Schön, sitting with his back to us, awaiting his fate. Lulu is at the height of her power -- as a theatrical dancer in a piece composed by Schön's son, Alwa. Dr. Schön has promoted her stage career in order to find her a husband and thereby free himself from the insidious hold she has had over him. Lulu has been in her dressing room with Alwa, describing to him the ecstatic experience of mastering the audience with her dance. She doesn't notice that Alwa has completely fallen for her as she views him as her brother. She is called to the stage to perform, but Lulu sees Dr, Schön in the audience with his fiancee. Schön has warned Lulu that he will take a "real and respectable wife." Lulu, upon seeing Schön, feigns a faint, leaves the stage and refuses to perform.

In this clip, Schön enters Lulu's dressing room, demanding that she return to the stage and not humiliate him. But just as Lulu calculated, when he is left alone with her, he is completely mastered and humiliated by this woman/child he has not been able to break his psycho/sexual addiction to, since he first found her selling flowers in a Paris train Station at the age of 11.

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