Sarah Bernhardt
You're Dead to Me
The Power of Physicality
Sarah Bernhardt had a very loud voice and never really had any vocal problems or voice lasted until old age. She was known for twirling like a dervish and then falling backwards onto a couch in her most famous death scene. Not everyone was a fan when she was young, especially about how thin she was because at the time, male taste ran to very curvy, fleshy women. But anytime anybody made fun of her for something, she leaned into it. Her physical style was like somebody doing some kind of erotic dance move while performing classical French tragedy or modern melodrama.
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